2014 East Oakland Project Blogs
Month: December 2014
2014 East Oakland Project Blogs
The Lights of East Oakland
In the darkest moments of people’s lives there appears to be an innate desire to search for hope. And evidence of that hope is often marked by reference to light. The month of December in […]
Ferguson Aftermath
Undeterred by the ‘Hella Storm’ 200 Oakland Students Walk out for Michael Brown
Oakland (December 15th, 2014)—Undeterred by the ‘Hella-Storm’, roughly 200 students, hailing from eight Oakland high schools staged a ‘die-in’ outside the Fruitvale BART station, disrupting business as usual for 4 minutes and 28 seconds. The […]
2014 East Oakland Project Blogs
Her Resilience: Women in Control of their Own Image
Mural concept art by Nicole Gervacio Early in the morning on April 5th, 2014, the body of a young woman by the name of Kimberly Robertson was found, raped and beaten in Oakland’s F.M. Smith […]
2014 East Oakland Project Blogs
Community Ready
“Community Ready,” a two word nugget these young fellows heard from Oakland Superintendent Antown Wilson, Saturday November 8, 2014, at the GradNation community summit an America’s Promise Alliance http://www.americaspromise.org/ and AT&T event held at Laney College. All […]