2015 Project Blogs
A close call
The dude drew a weapon (hand gun) and made the ugliest grimace that one could imagine. And then he hollered, “Gimme yo sh*t!!” It was 18 minutes past midnight, on the 26th of December […]
Carlos Gonzalez
2015 Project Blogs
Oakland Holidays
In Oakland, California, I recall the early years of going with my father to choose a pine tree from the sales lot across the street from Lake Merritt. We would place it on the roof […]
2015 Project Blogs
Strangely Familiar, Oakland City Hall’s Public Safety Discourse
Shakespearean? Is it that Art imitates Life or is it that life imitates art? Prior to arriving at the Public Safety committee meeting at Oakland City Hall, I envisioned a large and crowded chamber like […]
2015 Project Blogs
Changes in Oakland – a Philosophical View
What is there to say about the latest changes in our city and whether those changes are affecting or how they will affect the East sector of Oakland? It’s been predicted that the changes will […]
2015 Project Blogs
La Estrellita – The Third Generation
I interviewed Andrea Contreras, granddaughter of Isabela Macias, the matriarch and founder of the La Estrellita Cafe and Bar. Contreras described when it all first started in 1969. Initially her grandmother worked in various capacities […]
2015 Project Blogs
East Oakland Youth Development Center: A National Model
East Oakland Youth Development Center’s (EOYDC) 30- year old facility was recently rebuilt and a grand reopening and ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate the marvelous history and the new era dawning on the facility […]
2015 Project Blogs
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
San Francisco native, Zachary Norris, moved to East Oakland when he was about a week old. He grew up in Oakland but lived a relatively sheltered life until he began his undergraduate studies at Harvard. […]