Justice Archives - Oakland Voices

California moves toward paying incarcerated firefighters minimum wage

July 7, 2025 Cayla Mihalovich and Cal Matters

Incarcerated firefighters in California currently earn less than $11 per day.

Oakland vigil honors 16th angelversary of Oscar Grant

January 3, 2025 Rasheed Shabazz

Sixteen years after the murder of Oscar Grant, family, friends, and supporters gathered at Fruitvale Station on New Years Day.

Self-Determination inspires Panther to serve plates, share hope in Oakland

February 12, 2024 Joy Quilatan

Francis Moore started feeding people out her kitchen 15 years ago. The former Black Panther continues to feed the people.

A collage of four diverse people, mostly Latinx

Undocumented Immigrants in Oakland: “We Live in a Country that Hates Us, but Benefits from Our Labor. We Belong Here.”

November 17, 2022 Katharine Davies Samway

In October 2022, a federal court ruled against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA. The participants of the program are immigrants who came to the U.S. as minors, and are

Community gathers at Fruitvale Station in Oakland 13 years after murder of Oscar Grant

January 1, 2022 Rasheed Shabazz

Family, community gathers in Oakland to remember Oscar Grant.

Oaklander Mario Gonzalez dies in Alameda Police custody

April 27, 2021 Rasheed Shabazz

Mario Gonzalez, 26, died in Alameda Police custody on April 19.

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Oakland can ‘Defund the Police’ and ‘Refund the Community’

March 29, 2021 Cat Brooks

Process to reimagine police can lead to improvement in quality of life for Oakland.

School to Prison to School Pipeline

July 24, 2018 Debora Gordon

Suspensions and bouncing back and forth between various schools, crack- addicted parents and grandparents, running away, physical abuse, early fatherhood (age 17), teen-age drug use, multiple arrests, several incarcerations in local, county and state jails

Shalita Williams, Unshackled

January 11, 2018 Debora Gordon

Shalita Williams, recalls some early brushes with the law. “I started coming in contact with the law when I was 14, when I was caught stealing at Woolworth’s. I wanted to see if I

On the way to new prison “home,” Lam Vo sees outside world for the first time in seven years

October 17, 2016 Debora Gordon

“I’m told Tehachapi does snow, so I can’t wait to see the hills powdered with pure white snow. It will be a wonderful sight that I have not seen in a long time since going