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Month: November 2015

Arts & Culture

Not Just For Sundays – A Poem and A Plea

November 3, 2015 Angela Scott

Slender brown legs stretch over a velvety cushioned pew knobby knees and shiny black shoes click keeping the beat of drums my tiny head bobs back and forth while i hum the tune to a

Arts & Culture

Oakland Voices Speak Out on the Changes in Oakland

November 3, 2015 Brenda Payton

The changes are everywhere, from skyrocketing rents to a vibrant Uptown, from complaints about choir practice to barbecue permits at Lake Merritt. The Oakland Voices correspondents took a look at the changes in Oakland and

Arts & Culture

A Cultural Divide – Not the Oakland I Know

November 3, 2015 Mustafa Solomon

What I’d like to talk about is the attitude that has changed in the city of Oakland. In our neighborhoods—East Oakland, West Oakland, North Oakland—in all of our neighborhoods there seems to be a new

Arts & Culture

Changes in Oakland – a Philosophical View

November 3, 2015 Carlos Gonzalez

What is there to say about the latest changes in our city and whether those changes are affecting or how  they will affect the East sector of Oakland? It’s been predicted that the changes will

Past Authors

ESL teacher won’t take no for an answer

November 2, 2015 Debora Gordon

  Gaylynne Hudson is one ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher who doesn’t understand the word, “No.” When changes in the state laws led to significant cuts in Oakland’s ESL programs, many of her

Education

Civil Rights figures explore “The Future of Non-Violence in America” this Saturday.

November 2, 2015 Bill Joyce

The history of nonviolence and the Civil Rights Movement — its past, present, and future — will be tangible when two leading figures of the era – Dr. Clayborne Carson and Dr. Clarence B. Jones,

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