missionlocal.org/2026/10/soma-reporters-homecoming-san-francisco ‘Proof we were there’: A reporter’s SoMa homecoming
A reporter returns to her childhood SoMa neighborhood to find all eight landmarks on her list gone. The search leads back to a lifetime of documentation drilled into her at Bessie Carmichael, where teachers taught students that photographing their own lives was the only way to preserve a vanishing place.
— via Mission Local, Aaliyah Español-Rivas
