Take a walk down bustling Olvera Street, “a Mexican Street of Yesterday in a City of Today,” and uncover the story of millions of Mexican Americans who were coerced into leaving Los Angeles in the 1930s and how this still resonates today.

It’s 1945, and Japanese American families — who have just endured 3 years of incarceration as “enemy aliens” — are returning to San Francisco. In their absence, the neighborhood has transformed into the “Harlem of the West”. Can this new place feel like home again? And can this new, diverse Fillmore survive?

In the 1950s, Eureka Valley was a sleepy Irish Catholic enclave. Then an era of gay migration transformed this neighborhood into a queer homeland: a place with a global queer identity.

Singer and songwriter Alex Wong takes us into the immediate aftermath of the 1906 earthquake — can the Chinese American community reimagine the neighborhood to ensure its survival?

Go behind the cup and trace a century-long coffee trade between San Francisco and El Salvador that brought tens of thousands of refugees to the Mission in the 1980s, sparking the Sanctuary City Movement.