My Magic Pill
This piece was done in collaboration with the What’s Your Story? Project of KQED’s California Report. By Sabirah Mustafa I used to wish for a[Read more]
Sabirah Mustafa
Sabirah Mustafa is a community liaison and cultural enthusiast. “My aim in life is to facilitate, inform, and educate others,” Sabirah says, “about what is happening in our community and society at large in order to share our stories, bridge our differences, and create a more welcoming world.”
Stories by Sabirah
Why I Go to Oakland’s Public City Meetings, & You Should, Too
By Sabirah Mustafa Posted
By Sabirah Mustafa If you attend town hall meetings, protests, and demonstrations, you may have heard the public demanding to be heard when public policies[Read more]
The Vegas Effect
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By Sabirah Mustafa What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. It’s an ad slogan with some truth to it. People take the phrase seriously, shunning[Read more]
PHOTOS: Health of the Hood – Cleveland Heights
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By Sabirah Mustafa If healthy is as healthy does, then the residents of Cleveland Heights just might live forever. Aside from the abundance of joggers,[Read more]
PHOTOS: Health of the Hood – Cleveland Heights
By Sabirah Mustafa Posted
By Sabirah Mustafa Cleveland Heights has a lot of natural beauty, but requires diligent maintenance. Otherwise, leaves back up storm drains, and tree branches block[Read more]
Recovery
By Sabirah Mustafa Posted
Recovery by Sabirah Mustafa Tell me What is recovery? Is it what you recover from? Like the opposite of subtraction that uncovers a sum?[Read more]
Former Drug-Dealing ‘Street Star’ Becomes Youth Mentor
By Sabirah Mustafa Posted
Like Sankofa - the mythical bird in West African culture that symbolizes going back to retrieve things lost in order to move forward - Michael[Read more]
Native American Mental Health More Than A Dream
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By Sabirah Mustafa Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes asked the question,”what happens to a dream deferred?” “Does it dry up like a raisin in the[Read more]
‘Way Too Black’: Local Love Sustains Downtown Oakland Art Gallery
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By Sabirah Mustafa Do you want to feel good? Let go, and step into another world? If you live in Oakland, you don’t have to[Read more]
Health of the Hood: Merritt/Cleveland Heights
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By Sabirah Mustafa - I began my journey through my family’s neighborhood in the Lake Merritt area of East Oakland. My starting point was on[Read more]
