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Oakland Voices reflect on Black Lives Matter Protests

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Festival Food Favorite Finds a Home in Fruitvale

March 11, 2015 Tiffany Lacsado 2

Gone are the days of waiting patiently for the next Pacific Islander family event, Pacific Islander festival or outdoor Reggae concert to enjoy Polynesian comfort food at its finest. Mo’s Hut opened its doors in […]

Oakland School Board Meeting 101

March 9, 2015 Gerald Green 0

Oakland Education Association (OEA) and their supporters’ communication tactic of choice, repetitive loudness, met its match at the February 25th Oakland School Board meeting, when pre-kindergarteners paraded hand-in-hand while John Lennon song’s, “All the People,” […]

TRANSGENDERCIDE OF WOMEN OF COLOR DRIVES YOUNG TRANS WOMAN TO SUICIDE

March 5, 2015 Erick Chavarria 1

The disproportionate number of Trans non-White women who have been killed was on the mind of Aubrey Mariko, 22, on February 24th as she published her last Facebook update, a photograph of her knee […]

The InterTribal Friendship House: A Tradition of Growing

February 20, 2015 Sara Rowley 1

It’s a sunny and clear Valentine’s Day morning, and young and old arrive at the InterTribal Friendship House (or IFH) to ready the community garden for spring. There are trays of seedlings that need to […]

A Faith That Bears Good Fruit

February 13, 2015 Tom Webb 2

Josefina Lopez, the co-founder and proprietor of Corazon del Pueblo on East Oakland’s International Boulevard, may seem an unlikely social activist, Her mild demeanor and warmth hide a warrior with a passion for social […]

Oakland talks ABC’s Asian-American Family Sitcom: “Fresh off the Boat”

February 10, 2015 Saa'un Bell 3

Fresh off the boat? No, actually, my mom hopped off a plane with me and my brother clinging to her legs. Perhaps it was her lack of English, America’s lack of Tagalog, and the resulting […]

Healing from the scars and sin of racism is ongoing

January 28, 2015 Tom Webb 1

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 1

[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 4

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 […]

Year: 2015