When Bryan Bashin of Alameda County, California, tried on Feb. 9 to sign up for his vaccine appointment, he found the website was inaccessible. Bashin is blind and the CEO of the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco. (Shelby Knowles for KHN)
Covid Vaccine Websites Violate Disability Laws, Create Inequity for the Blind
"Blind residents said they were unable to register for the vaccine through their state or local governments without help."
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Vaccines distributed unequally in Oakland; federal COVID Relief on the...
Who is at risk? Who is being protected?
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"This is something people do not know. The history books do not carry us.” -[Read more]
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‘The sweetest escape’: a love letter to Oakland’s libraries
Libraries are physically closed, but they continue to serve their neighborhoods. One East Oaklander shares[Read more]
Crime, race, safety: what’s really happening in Oakland Chinatown?
The assaults have sparked international outrage and been widely called hate crimes. Is there evidence[Read more]
Coliseum and Fremont HS Will Open As Vaccine Distribution Sites
Starting this week, some Oakland seniors 65 and older — alongside food and agriculture essential[Read more]
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Award-winning filmmaker seeking subjects from Oakland to interview about lead poisoning.
What to Expect in Oakland in 2021
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Prisoner and Accomplished Writer Jermon Clark Shares His Story
An Oakland man is seeking healing through writing.
COVID Cases Start to Drop but ICU Cases Remain High
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The pandemic has taught us to not take a single thing for granted.
Stay-at-home orders lifted, but COVID-19 still with us
COVID-19 hospitalizations are predicted to decline.
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"[Organizing] is something people dedicate hours of their lives to training to do, and then[Read more]
COVID-19 Did Not Get the Best of Me: How I...
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Vaccine recalled by state not distributed in Alameda County
COVID-19 still widespread in Oakland, Alameda County.
New Priorities Will Speed Vaccine Distribution in Oakland
Information on vaccine roll-out in Oakland and beyond.
Oakland nears 20,000 COVID cases; Coliseum might be vaccination site
COVID-19 cases in Oakland expand.
Bringing the Political into the Classroom
"For the first time in my years of teaching, I taught “sedition,” “insurrection,” “coup d’état,”[Read more]
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Stay home and wear a mask -- if you can.
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Arts & Culture
Watch “Stories of Solidarity: API and Black Artists in Oakland Unite”
Last week, the Oakland Cultural Affairs Commission, along with City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas’ office, organized a virtual town hall and concert featuring Asian and Pacific Islander and[Read more]
- New West Oakland Mural Celebrates Black Joy and Women of Black Panther Party
- ‘The sweetest escape’: a love letter to Oakland’s libraries
- Filmmaker Alex Bledsoe Seeks Families in Oakland Who Experienced Lead Poisoning
- What to Expect in Oakland in 2021
- Prisoner and Accomplished Writer Jermon Clark Shares His Story
- 2021’s Wednesdays: Georgia’s win, Black women organizers, and Poetry
- Verzuz battle meant more to Oakland and the Bay Area than just entertainment
- ‘Movie Night at the Lake’ brings silent disco, film, drink, & popcorn to[Read more]
Education
Bringing the Political into the Classroom
"For the first time in my years of teaching, I taught “sedition,” “insurrection,” “coup d’état,” and “treason.""
- Oakland COVID News: Playgrounds Can Be Open, Alameda County Cases Rise
- OUSD has a targeted re-opening date of January 25, 2021, with many caveats
- Parenting During a Pandemic: Candase Chambers Says Lack of Peers and Sports Biggest[Read more]
- Talk of the Town: OUSD Teachers in a Distance Learning World (Part 2)
- Fremont High, a school re-built with love, community, and bond measure money
- Talk of the Town: OUSD Teachers in a Distance Learning World
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Masks We Wear
Confessions of a Maskhole
I learned there’s now a term to describe people like me who are undisciplined mask wearers — maskholes. You know the type: we slop them on like an old[Read more]
- Welcome to Las Vegas: My family searches for home in the midst of[Read more]
- Crafting a Mask to Match my Coronavirus Crown
- Masks will be around for a while, sew I’ll keep making them
- COVID-19: Different Masks for Different Situations
- With COVID-19 masks mandatory, smiles more important
- Wearing a COVID-19 mask triggers my trauma
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