September 2020 - Oakland Voices

A smiling Latinx woman holds up a cookbook.

“Para Chuparse Los Dedos” (“Finger-licking Good”) Central American Recipes and Stories from the East Bay

September 30, 2020 Marabet Morales Sikahall

Cut off from our homelands as refugees not able to return, our food recipes are core to the Central American identity.

A white dish with half rice and half dark chocolate colored meat stew next to the rice.

Pepian recipe from “Para Chuparse Los Dedos”

September 30, 2020 Marabet Morales Sikahall

Pepian, a meat stew recipe from Guatemala. Recipe by Vilma Morales-Garcia. from “Para Chuparse Los Dedos.”

A beautiful soup with corn and other vegetables is on display on a white table.

Sopa de res, a Salvadoran soup recipe from “Para Chuparse Los Dedos”

September 30, 2020 Marabet Morales Sikahall

Read the article by Marabet Morales about the new Central American-focused cookbook and oral history project. SOPA DE RES Serves 6-8 Ingredients: 2-3 pounds of beef bone (You can ask the meat butcher to cut

A leaf is open. What is inside? It looks like many ingredients that go inside a Nicaraguan tamale!

Nacatamales, a Nicaraguan tamales recipe from “Para Chuparse Los Dedos”

September 30, 2020 Marabet Morales Sikahall

A Nicaraguan tamales recipe courtesy of “Para Chuparse Los Dedos.”

A group of women decked out in Oakland Raiders gear pose smiling in a photo in the parking lot.

Longtime Raiders Fans Reminisce about Tailgate Parties in East Oakland from yesteryear

September 29, 2020 Tony Daquipa

Longtime Raiders fans feel left behind by NFL as team moves to Las Vegas.

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Oakland venue criticized for remaining open during COVID-19

September 28, 2020 Rasheed Shabazz

An Oakland events space is being criticized for remaining open and serving groups hardest hit by the pandemic.

‘Breonna Taylor wasn’t me, but she could have been’

September 24, 2020 Saa'un Bell

Oakland Voices correspondents Saa’un Bell and Brandy Collins share their insights on the Breonna Taylor verdict.

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Alameda County in Red Tier; OUSD likely won’t open classrooms before Jan 2021

September 24, 2020 Momo Chang

While we move to the red tier, for now, OUSD schools will continue distance learning through the end of 2020.

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Concerted effort between UCSF, Black organizations, hope to test 1,000 people this Friday and Saturday in Oakland

September 17, 2020 Momo Chang

Two upcoming pop-up test sites hope to test 1,000 African Americans in Oakland, the population with most devastating COVID effects in Alameda County.

An African American man wearing a turquoise shirt speaks on a Zoom presentation.

Dr. Gerard Jenkins, Chief Medical Officer of Native American Health Center, talks COVID-19, health inequities in Oakland

September 16, 2020 Brandy Collins

“One of the things I’ve tried to emphasize to my friends and others is by getting tested and knowing, you’re doing yourself a favor and helping reduce that risk for others.”