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Health & Wellness

The Center for Independent Living’s Taco Truck Festivities in the Fruitvale

October 21, 2022 Bill Joyce 1

The brisk morning air under gray skies didn’t chill the festive mood along International Boulevard last Friday on the lot of taco truck Aguachiles El Tamarindo. Billed as “a taco truck lot take-over,” the “Fruitvale […]

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Education

The Spirit of Bill Russell Kicks Off McClymonds’ New Season

September 6, 2022 Bill Joyce 1

In the fading sunlight just before the kick-off for football’s season opener at the “School of Champions,” McClymonds High School paid tribute to the greatest Warrior of all, basketball immortal and social justice activist Bill […]

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Education

Serving up Literacy with the Currys—Eat. Learn. Play. BUS and the Oakland Literacy Coalition

September 30, 2021 Bill Joyce 1

Fabulously multi-colored and splashed with scenes from across Oakland, Stephen and Ayesha Curry’s new BUS catered to every taste when it rolled out at the East Oakland Youth Development Center earlier this month.  Some 60 […]

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2020 elections

The Road Leads Back to You, Georgia

December 10, 2020 Bill Joyce 1

Activists from Oakland are letter-writing and phone-banking in hopes of a Democratic senate takeover in Georgia, which would give Vice President-elect Kamala Harris the tie-breaking vote in Congress. […]

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COVID-19

Confessions of a Maskhole

August 26, 2020 Bill Joyce 5

I learned there’s now a term to describe people like me who are undisciplined mask wearers — maskholes. You know the type: we slop them on like an old sock. […]

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COVID-19

Oakland’s BIPOC-owned vandalized businesses tell their story

July 14, 2020 Bill Joyce 1

Oakland Voices Correspondents chat with several small, BIPOC-owned businesses in Oakland following the vandalism that affected more than 200 businesses. […]

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News

Oakland Voices: Youth activists leading the Black Lives Matter Movement

July 1, 2020 Bill Joyce 5

Oakland Voices interviewed five young leaders who have taken the Black Lives Matter Movement by storm and reminded us that not only are our youth the future, but they are also the present. […]

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COVID-19

Tuesday Morning at Arsola’s Food Pantry in Oakland During COVID-19

May 8, 2020 Bill Joyce 6

Long before hundreds of vehicles roll up on Tuesday morning, a half dozen volunteers are on the job. Along a makeshift assembly line, extended to allow for social distancing, a half dozen volunteers wearing masks […]

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COVID-19

Sheltering-in-Place in the Laurel District

April 8, 2020 Bill Joyce 6

Mine is the only car as I pull up to 35th and MacArthur early Tuesday morning. Usually swarming with students on their way to Skyline High and workers heading downtown or BART, only one man […]

Past Authors

Dishing Up a Kinfolks Thanksgiving

December 8, 2017 Bill Joyce 2

The Kinfolks Motorcycle Club’s annual Thanksgiving dinner at Palo Vista Gardens is still an hour away but the dinner guests are already gathering. Joanne Berstine, a 35 -year resident of the senior housing residence, is […]

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Education

Laney College and Hack the Hood Year-Long Program Comes with $400 Monthly Stipend

April 26, 2023 0

Students who want to get an education in the STEM field can apply and enroll now in Drive: Laney, a program between Laney College and Oakland-based Hack the Hood. Students who complete the 12 month […]

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Bill Joyce is a retired Berkeley teacher and 2016 alumnus of Oakland Voices.
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