The 14 graduates at the May ceremony shared an experience most college graduates couldn’t claim – they had all served time behind bars. “This feels like a surreal moment for me right now,” said Clarence […]
The stakes were high: a $1,000 investment in their Oakland businesses, and they only had an allotted amount of time to convince the judges their plans were feasible, well developed and socially responsible. Eight […]
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 […]
The six- feet high, 30- foot long The Tree of Life mural-on-canvas sweeps across the entrance of the Oliver Art Center at the California College of Art (CCA). A vibrant tree forms the center of the […]
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 […]
The history of nonviolence and the Civil Rights Movement — its past, present, and future — will be tangible when two leading figures of the era – Dr. Clayborne Carson and Dr. Clarence B. Jones, […]
“The tears are for those stories that need to be told.” – Albertina Zarazúa Padilla, Curator for MiHistoria Earlier this month, the César E. Chávez Branch of the Oakland Public Library and MiHistoria held a storytelling workshop in […]
East Oakland Youth Development Center’s (EOYDC) 30- year old facility was recently rebuilt and a grand reopening and ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate the marvelous history and the new era dawning on the facility […]
Imagine walking into your therapist’s office and seeing hip hop album covers hanging from the wall. To your immediate left is a stage and like the rest of the room, it is being renovated by […]
Oakland Education Association (OEA) and their supporters’ communication tactic of choice, repetitive loudness, met its match at the February 25th Oakland School Board meeting, when pre-kindergarteners paraded hand-in-hand while John Lennon song’s, “All the People,” […]
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