Opinion
Hunger In The Face Of Hubris
Providing every low-income citizen with a daily meal allotment of $79 will end the United States war against hunger. This is the amount of the new daily meal allotment afforded to the members of the […]
Amelah El-Amin
COVID-19
How My Life Has Changed Since the Pandemic: Amelah El-Amin
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
Observe some of the beauty in the Bay Area’s natural environment. […]
Masks We Wear
Wearing a COVID-19 mask triggers my trauma
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
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
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
“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
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?
Oakland Voices correspondent Amelah El-Amin asks residents, What do you love most about Oakland?
2019-2020 Project Blogs
Doom, gloom on the streets of Deep East Oakland
Oakland Voices correspondent Amelah El-Amin walks you down a block in Deep East Oakland. […]