Bill Joyce, Author at Oakland Voices

Oakland legal clinic educates immigrant families about rights

January 16, 2025 Bill Joyce

Immigrant families learned about what to do in the event of ICE encounters.

an outdoor catwalk with an audience in folding chairs outside

Creative Growth Shines at 50 Years-Old With a Vibrant Fashion Show

July 7, 2024 Bill Joyce

Creative Growth Art Center celebrates its 50th anniversary with a vibrant outdoor fashion show at the Valdez Street Vibes Festival. Featuring unique wearable art by artists with disabilities, the event highlights the center’s impact on the art world and disability culture.

a table with gardening tools, along with a vase of red and orange flowers

Beating Swords into Plowshares in East Oakland

June 17, 2023 Bill Joyce

The popular biblical phrase, “swords into plowshares,” is often used to describe turning weapons of destruction to something for everyday use. Led by Paula Hawthorn and Cara Meredith of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church’s social justice

a mariachi band plays under a tent that says "CIL" on the top

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

October 21, 2022 Bill Joyce

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

a close up of a scoreboard that says "McClymonds Warriors" in orange type. A field lamp post is shining at dusk next to it

The Spirit of Bill Russell Kicks Off McClymonds’ New Season

September 6, 2022 Bill Joyce

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

Several smiling people stand casually in front of a colorful mobil bus.

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

September 30, 2021 Bill Joyce

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

An African American woman puts stamps at the dining table.

The Road Leads Back to You, Georgia

December 10, 2020 Bill Joyce

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.

A man wears a cap, glasses, and a black mask

Confessions of a Maskhole

August 26, 2020 Bill Joyce

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.

An African American woman wearing a rainbow colored dress stands in front of a storefront in Oakland.

Oakland’s BIPOC-owned vandalized businesses tell their story

July 14, 2020 Bill Joyce and Aqueila M. Lewis-Ross

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

A young African American man, Akil Riley, stands in front of a fence for a photo.

Oakland Voices: Youth activists leading the Black Lives Matter Movement

July 1, 2020 Bill Joyce, Debora Gordon and Sarah Belle Lin

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.