Saleem Gilmore, Author at Oakland Voices

Oakland’s interim mayor offers stability after recall election

January 16, 2025 Saleem Gilmore

Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins hopes to bring stability to City Hall while still supporting District 6 residents.

Angela Davis talks about Black Lives Matter, Beyoncé and feminism

March 14, 2016 Saleem Gilmore

I always thought that Angela Davis was a member of the Black Panther Party. To celebrate 50 years since the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, CA, I decided to go see Dr. Davis

Who’s Policing the Police?

February 10, 2016 Saleem Gilmore

After agreeing to a Negotiated Settlement Agreement (NSA) in response to a lawsuit for police misconduct 12 years ago, the city of Oakland has paid $30 million in court monitoring costs and is still not

Gun violence: Stay ready

January 25, 2016 Saleem Gilmore

If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready. I was born to a teenage mother who learned how to be a woman as she learned how to be a mother. My biological

Everett and Jones – “Dream a dream that makes you happy.”

October 28, 2015 Saleem Gilmore

The success of Everett and Jones barbecue as a business is based on the values that have sustained the family for over four generations. Dorothy King, owner of Everett and Jones, reflected on her mother’s

Oakland Rising

October 26, 2015 Saleem Gilmore

In 2006, Jerry Brown was Mayor of Oakland, Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor of California, and grassroots politics in Oakland was losing its voice. Local communities felt locked out of City Hall, their voices not being

The Hills

August 28, 2015 Saleem Gilmore

Growing up in “Deep East” Oakland, we always heard about “the Hills” and how “they lived in the Hills and we lived in the Flats.” “They” were the proverbial other: affluent and white. Now, I

A five-foot tall Warrior

August 11, 2015 Saleem Gilmore

Like many, my family migrated from Louisiana to Oakland in 1954. My mother, Linda Wilson, was 10-months-old and the baby of the family, as my Grandfather use to call her. She was a vibrant child