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Out on the streets with Street Level

September 29, 2015 Bill Joyce

Don Francisco, a Street Level outreach worker who delivers breakfast to day laborers, is a little worried. Forty containers aren’t sufficient for the number of workers that he will see in the next couple of

Hope Collaborative

September 28, 2015 Mustafa Solomon

Hope Collaborative is a collective of Bay Area organizations and community residents that works to help families and youth work towards healthy living in East and West Oakland. Officially, it has been around for 7 years,

Looking forward to a new day every night

August 18, 2015 Randy Filio

Quinn Reedy is a young man in his early 20’s. He was one of the few lucky ones who survived the horrors of lymphoma cancer and is still here on earth to tell us about

Her Resilience: From a Seed to a Flower

March 25, 2015 Sara Rowley

When I first spoke with Hazel Streete of the “Her Resilience: a Mural for Women Affected by Violence” project in the late fall of 2014, her team had just found a home for their

There’s so much more to Oakland

March 18, 2015 Sara Rowley

Taking a tour of my own city isn’t something I’ve done before, but something everyone should do once in their life. I’m slowly piecing together the places, the people, the history of this fascinating city

The Spirit of MLK’s Dream Alive in East Oakland

January 20, 2015 Tom Webb

[slideshow_deploy id=’7803′] Celebrating the 86th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth, East Oakland residents of District 7 organized an annual street clean-up and tree-planting. More than 150 people from the neighborhood, East Oakland

The Lights of East Oakland

December 29, 2014 Tom Webb

In the darkest moments of people’s lives there appears to be an innate desire to search for hope. And evidence of that hope is often marked by reference to light. The month of December in