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2015 Project Blogs

2015 Project Blogs

East Oakland Barbershop a School for Life

September 20, 2016 Tom Webb 0

  When you listen to Tyrone Burns, 46, owner of “Pull-up Your Pants Barbershop” on 82nd Avenue and Hillside in East Oakland, you hear the voices of a teacher, counselor, coach, social worker, surrogate parent, […]

2015 Project Blogs

BECOME AN EAST OAKLAND STORYTELLER

August 11, 2016 Oakland Voices 0

By Brenda Payton OAKLAND VOICES COORDINATOR EAST OAKLAND – Oakland Voices correspondents have written about volunteers who are feeding poor people in their neighborhoods, resilient family members, organizations devoted to improving their communities as well […]

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Sights and Sounds: Art After Foreclosure in East Oakland, A Radio Story

May 16, 2016 Aqueila M. Lewis-Ross 1

http://cpa.ds.npr.org/kalw/audio/2016/05/WEB.ArtForclosure.mp3 This is my grandmother’s story as much as it is mine. I lived with her, Attaway, on 2657 67th Avenue from August 2006 to May 2012 and enjoyed every minute of it. But, a […]

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Sights and Sounds: An Artist Paints in Athol Park – A Radio Story

May 12, 2016 Bill Joyce 0

http://cpa.ds.npr.org/kalw/audio/2016/04/WEB.AtholPark.mp3   Two tennis courts, enclosed by a chain link fence, sit adjacent to Athol Plaza Park in Oakland, near Lake Merritt. Laila Espinoza is here nearly every weekend. She hangs a canvas on the […]

2015 Project Blogs

Sights and Sounds of East Oakland: Creating a Lineage of Artists in East Oakland – A Radio Story

May 11, 2016 Angela Scott 0

http://cpa.ds.npr.org/kalw/audio/2016/04/WEB.EastSideArts.mp3 Turning down 23rd Avenue towards International Boulevard, I see the words “Culture is a weapon” painted the side of a building wall. Painted below are indigenous peoples, Black Panther party members and immigrant workers. […]

2015 Project Blogs

Friday Mornings at Arsola’s

May 3, 2016 Bill Joyce 6

In the lot tucked between Castlemont High and Center of Hope Church along MacArthur Blvd., three women are pulling down the flap of a pop-up tent. It’s an extra task, one of many, on this […]

2015 Project Blogs

Alameda County Community Food Bank combats Hunger

May 2, 2016 Sabah Williams 0

Statistics show that hunger is very prevalent in Alameda County. According to the Alameda County Community Food Bank, one in five residents within the county is suffering from hunger- related issues and need assistance feeding […]

2015 Project Blogs

Oakland Voices 2015-2016 Class Members Find their Muse

April 28, 2016 Tom Webb 2

If you ask a journalist why he or she chooses to engage in this craft, you’re bound to find 101 reasons. But the newest community journalists trained by the Oakland Voices program were nearly univocal […]

2015 Project Blogs

An excerpt of Dimensions Dance Theater’s “The Town … On Notice” about the housing crisis

April 26, 2016 Randy Filio 0
2015 Project Blogs

Latino Community Foundation’s Latino Equity Summit

April 25, 2016 Rosalinda Hernandez 0

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 […]

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