January 2015 - Oakland Voices

Healing from the scars and sin of racism is ongoing

January 28, 2015 Tom Webb

When Illinois Senator Barack Hussein Obama was elected president of the United States in 2008 to great fanfare, it was popularly believed the United States had exorcized the demons of racism from its national

The Spirit of MLK’s Dream Alive in East Oakland

January 20, 2015 Tom Webb

[slideshow_deploy id=’7803′] Celebrating the 86th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth, East Oakland residents of District 7 organized an annual street clean-up and tree-planting. More than 150 people from the neighborhood, East Oakland

Arnold Perkins, Community Change Agent in Transition

January 9, 2015 Gerald Green

After attending a Seventh-day Adventist National Conference in Oakland, the Perkins’ family in 1954 relocated from segregated Miami Florida to Oakland. Their eighth-grader son, Arnold, attended Golden Gate Academy, where white students teased him about

Ericka Huggins: a Life in Learning

January 7, 2015 Sara Rowley

Ericka Huggins, the activist, educator, and poet, begins her class at Merritt College “The Black Panther Party: Strategies for Organizing the People” by having students gather their desks around in a circle. She reminds them