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Arnold Perkins, Community Change Agent in Transition

January 9, 2015 Gerald Green

After attending a Seventh-day Adventist National Conference in Oakland, the Perkins’ family in 1954 relocated from segregated Miami Florida to Oakland. Their eighth-grader son, Arnold, attended Golden Gate Academy, where white students teased him about

Ericka Huggins: a Life in Learning

January 7, 2015 Sara Rowley

Ericka Huggins, the activist, educator, and poet, begins her class at Merritt College “The Black Panther Party: Strategies for Organizing the People” by having students gather their desks around in a circle. She reminds them

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

Community Ready

December 3, 2014 Gerald Green

“Community Ready,” a two word nugget these young fellows heard from Oakland Superintendent Antown Wilson, Saturday November 8, 2014, at the GradNation community summit an America’s Promise Alliance http://www.americaspromise.org/ and AT&T event held at Laney College. All

The Invisible Hand in Our Hoods

November 17, 2014 Sergio Martinez

While writing about the Ferguson shooting of an unarmed African -American teenager by a white police officer, I came across the concept of Structural Vulnerability. I met with Professor James Quesada from San Francisco State

A Woman’s Place – the story of a mural

October 21, 2014 Le’Ana Powell

A woman’s place is in the struggle says the San Antonio District’s anonymous artist and community. There is a story in every piece of art, and this mural located on International Boulevard and 19th Avenue

Flowers of East Oakland

September 30, 2014 Tom Webb

If one judges by simple appearances, the neighborhoods which comprise East Oakland seem to teem with problems. The murder rate, though down from years past, is still unacceptably high. The frequency of crimes like assault,

Turn Right for TRIO: Academic Outreach Continues to Help Oakland Youth

September 24, 2014 Janice Davis

It was a sunny Thursday afternoon when my convoluted search for a news story at Mills College turned into a reflection of my own college-preparatory experience. It also brought into light the TRIO programs that

Community Change Agents

September 4, 2014 Gerald Green

On a Thursday in August, I heard English and Spanish as I watched African- American and Latino families share a pot-luck dinner in honor of mothers graduating from the Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network’s

A Farm in East Oakland? Full Harvest explores the possibilities.

August 12, 2014 Saa'un Bell

One fleeting glance at the three-storied rain cloud painted house on 39th Avenue in Oakland’s Laurel District, and you would never know. The possibilities. The possibility of “Full Harvest Urban Farm”, an acre farm