November 2025 - Oakland Voices

Givebutter pledges $1 million relief fund to aid nonprofits disrupted by Flipcause shutdown.

The San Francisco Foundation awarded Eddy Zhang the Joe Brooks Award.

New staging of August Wilson classic resonates with Oakland’s history, current challenges.

Fruitvale’s Día de los Muertos Festival filled International Boulevard with altars, dancers, lowriders, and food.

California orders Flipcause to halt operations after nonprofits report months-long delays in receiving donations.

Prose to the People celebrates Black bookstores, like Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest Black bookstore.

Flipcause once called Oakland home. Now, the fundraising platform accused of withholding millions is nowhere to be found.

Four Oakland honored with Alameda County Arts Leadership Award.

Prop 50 redraws California’s political map.

Beloved Arab bakery Reem’s returns to Oakland with a new flagship, worker-owned structure, and wholesale expansion plans.