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COVID-19

How My Life Has Changed Since the Pandemic: Amelah El-Amin

February 15, 2022 Amelah El-Amin 0

We asked our Oakland Voices alumni community members and correspondents: How has pandemic life changed your habits and your outlook? How have you navigated public spaces and health risks now that we are in a […]

2019-2020 Project Blogs

Finding sustained Bay Area beauty outdoors during COVID-19

August 13, 2020 Amelah El-Amin 1

Observe some of the beauty in the Bay Area’s natural environment. […]

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Masks We Wear

Wearing a COVID-19 mask triggers my trauma

June 3, 2020 Amelah El-Amin 0

Being required to wear a face mask due to COVID-19 brings back a hard childhood memory. […]

COVID-19

How Oakland families are adjusting to the shelter-in-place

April 15, 2020 Amelah El-Amin 0

Oakland families are adjusting differently to the COVID-19 related shelter-in-place order. Amelah El-Amin profiles different families in East and West Oakland. […]

COVID-19

Six virtual places for Oakland residents to spiritually connect amid coronavirus lockdown

March 25, 2020 Amelah El-Amin 0

Six places of worship in Oakland providing virtual spiritual services during COVID-19 pandemic and Bay Area shelter-in-place. […]

2019-2020 Project Blogs

Zarinah El-Amin Majied: Breaking the Chains of Intergenerational Trauma

January 27, 2020 Amelah El-Amin 0

“Growing up as an only child though I had four siblings was very lonely”, Zarinah El-Amin Majied conveyed as she recalled her childhood. Her mother, who left Zarinah’s older siblings Annie Pearl and Roosevelt in […]

2019-2020 Project Blogs

The Honest Struggle documents challenges of returning home from prison

October 13, 2019 Amelah El-Amin 0

The Honest Struggle, a documentary featuring Sadiq Davis, was screened at the Lighthouse Mosque on September 28.  The hour-long film takes the audience down and around the peaks and valleys of re-entry, the process of […]

News

Talk of the Town: What do you love most about Oakland?

October 10, 2019 Amelah El-Amin 1

Oakland Voices correspondent Amelah El-Amin asks residents, What do you love most about Oakland?

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2019-2020 Project Blogs

Doom, gloom on the streets of Deep East Oakland

August 1, 2019 Amelah El-Amin 0

Oakland Voices correspondent Amelah El-Amin walks you down a block in Deep East Oakland. […]

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Oakland Voices Alumni Update

Oakland Voices Alumni Spotlight: Debora Gordon

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Education

Bishop O’Dowd To Unveil New Facility With High School Hoops Showcase

November 23, 2022 1

The sounds of sneakers squeaking, basketballs bouncing, and coaches yelling echoed throughout Bishop O’Dowd’s brand new, state-of-the-art, 1,300 plus capacity gymnasium. This gym is the crown jewel of the private Catholic school’s new $40 million […]

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History and Mission

Amelah El-Amin is a mother, grandmother, and African American Muslim human rights activist. She has been serving our community for over 25 years. She co-founded Mu’eed, Inc, a non-profit which has coordinated Humanitarian Day in Oakland for the past 11 years, a program which services homeless residents and low-income children. In addition to feeding the hungry, she advocates for elderly. Amelah El-Amin is a correspondent for Oakland Voices.
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