Last month, I attended the Latino Equity Summit at the Sheraton Grand in Sacramento, California. The Summit brings together Latino leaders, advocates and policymakers in an effort to discuss community solutions to assist the Latino […]
Last month, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office hosted the Bay Area Human Exploitation and Trafficking (H.E.A.T) Watch Coalition’s first meeting of the year to discuss the demand for human trafficking. The idea is to […]
On January 30, 2016, I, along with my fellow Oakland Voices correspondent Aqueila Lewis, attended a town hall on gun violence hosted by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) at Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church. I […]
My earliest memory of actually seeing a gun is probably the gun my dad owned when I was a kid. It was a beautiful gun, or at least as I recall it. It had […]
Growing up in East Oakland, in a Mexican-Catholic home, one of my favorite traditions about the holidays were Las Posadas at our local church in Jingletown. Las Posadas are a nine-day celebration celebrated throughout Mexico. […]
For five years now, La Luz del Mundo has set up a fundraising Christmas tree lot on 104th Avenue off of International Boulevard. I had the pleasure of speaking to a number of its members. They are […]
During times of change, especially unwarranted change, I turn to certain quotes to remind me that change can be good. Oakland is undergoing a transformation right now. Change is everywhere. Is it good change? That, […]
“The tears are for those stories that need to be told.” – Albertina Zarazúa Padilla, Curator for MiHistoria Earlier this month, the César E. Chávez Branch of the Oakland Public Library and MiHistoria held a storytelling workshop in […]
I called Acta Non Verba (“ANV”) to see if I could stop by for a tour of the farm and to interview Kelly Carlisle, the founder and executive director of the organization. Little did I […]
I am at the bus stop around the corner from my house waiting for the bus. Cars are buzzing by left and right. Music blares from the cars– hip hop mixed in with Mexican banda […]
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