By Dawneka Akins OAKLAND, CA – “I got a brick. Trust me, when it gets dark, it’s goin’ through a window,” 58-year old OG Rich said as he strolled near 13th Street and Broadway, downtown. […]
By Diana Alonzo, Tyrese Johnson, and Adimu Madyun OAKLAND, CA – Oakland Voices correspondents have spread throughout the city to get reactions from residents following the Johannes Mehserle verdict. The former BART police officer was […]
By Dre McEwen OAKLAND, CA – In some ways, commentary on the shooting of Oscar Grant seems simple, divided by one vast river of intent. Either Johannes Mehserle meant to draw his gun and shoot […]
By Malcolm Pate LIVERMORE, CA – Looking at himself in his bedroom mirror, Arthur “AR” Renowitzky contemplates his singular goal: willing himself to the top, with his family at his side, and god on his […]
By Adimu Madyun OAKLAND, CA – Rubbing his face quietly, the Oakland-based artist Golden State Warrior looks out of a car window. He surveys his latest graffiti piece as the paint dries in the night […]
By Brian Beveridge OAKLAND, CA – It was dead calm, like the eye of a storm, at the corner of Webster and Seventeenth Streets on Independence Day afternoon downtown. Security gates, padlocks and roll-down doors […]
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