Editor’s Note: BlacArted is a front-row view into the maze-like mind of a multi-hyphenated artist pondering on art and the nature of reality as it intersects the creative and the imagined. On a balmy Friday […]
Editor’s Note: Oakland Voices is launching a column written by our alum and the City of Oakland’s first Poet Laureate, Ayodele Nzinga. BlacArted is a front-row view into the maze-like mind of a multi-hyphenated artist […]
When every outlet from CNN to Fox leads with Oakland’s unprecedented crime wave, it causes concern and invites fear. But what does it mean? Really. California is among the 20 most dangerous states in America. […]
The Oakland Slow Streets project is supposed to provide space for residents to practice social distancing, but some worry it is a tool for displacement. […]
Oakland and Alameda County officials are measuring levels of vaporized trichlorethylene (TCE) at McClymonds High School. […]
Following the closure of McClymonds High School due to potentially contaminated water, parents are concerned about the health of their children and the closure will have on their students. […]
Glenn Bailey has served 52 years inside the California carceral system. The last 42 were part of a life sentence for a double homicide he readily admits he committed. When he was arrested, authorities arrested […]
I like this neighborhood best late at night. When it’s quiet and bathed in a kind, artificial light, and smelling vaguely of weed, flowers, and the places where former neighbors now live on curbs. I […]
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