Damu Dailey

About Damu Dailey

Delving into modern media platforms through historical docuemntaries and creative podcastingm Dailey is now seeking to write about global issues and newsworthy cultures that affect us all locally.

Through writing and photojournalism, he is presently working to capture the underlying subtext and topical narratives of today.
Raised in the Mandela Parkway area of Oakland, Dailey is proud to
delve deeper and share with "Oakland Voice's."

Dogs and minimizing force: Oscar Grant. However peace is possible

July 3, 2017 Damu Dailey

Dogs and minimizing force; Oscar Grant. However peace is possible.. June 14th, 2017. “My name is Uncle Bobby, the uncle of Oscar Grant, of course, Oscar’s mother Wanda is my sister.” Cephus Johnson is Uncle

Food Desert

May 15, 2017 Damu Dailey

East Oakland is considered a food desert. A food desert–according to the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture)–is defined as a “low-access community” where at least 500 people or 33 percent of the census tract’s population

Ghost Notes

May 3, 2017 Damu Dailey

Notes on spirituality Thirty six people died in Oakland’s most horrific fire on Friday December 2, 2016. This is a story about photojournalism and two rules of spirituality I observed while reporting on the tragedy

Do Homeless Lives Matter?

January 17, 2017 Damu Dailey

January 1, 1:35 AM 2017, Oakland. Emergency lights flashed in an underpass filled with fire trucks, police cars, and ambulances. Paramedics and firemen hovered over an unidentifiable body laying out in the middle of the

Modern Day Ruins : The Ghost Ship Warehouse

December 28, 2016 Damu Dailey

The parking lot of Wendy’s across the street from the “Ghost Ship” is where people sit in their cars and stare at the massiveness of the incident. They can see the whole building from there, clearly,

Mandela Parkway: The Day Before Crack Hit. Then and Now.

December 15, 2016 Damu Dailey

“Man,” yes, my neighbor’s real name, was a man-child in all respects. He was always serious and rarely smiled, even when we played happily for hours. We were young, feral children running wild without

We Are Rome

December 1, 2016 Damu Dailey

It’s not the election of Trump. It’s the murder of Martin Luther King. It’s not presidency of Trump, it’s the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. It’s not the rhetoric of Trump. It’s

D.K. DAILEY, EAST OAKLAND’S SCIENCE FICTION WRITER, AUTHOR OF 13 BOOKS, STILL SEEKING A PUBLISHER.

October 28, 2016 Damu Dailey

Meeting D.K. Dailey, you probably wouldn’t guess her unique accomplishment – she’s written 13 books. And even though she hasn’t been published yet, she keeps writing. “I never thought I’d have 13 books written, yet