My Neighborhood Archives - Page 9 of 13

Gun violence: Stay ready

January 25, 2016 Saleem Gilmore

If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready. I was born to a teenage mother who learned how to be a woman as she learned how to be a mother. My biological

A Community Discusses High Rents and Displacement

January 19, 2016 Sabah Williams

Oakland Voices hosted a forum on high rents and displacement in Oakland on December 8th, 2015 at the 81st Avenue Library. Aqueila Lewis, artist and Oakland Voices correspondent, opened the evening with a powerful spoken word

Methadone Clinics – A Chance to Change

January 4, 2016 Randy Filio

Day after day we face a drug addiction problem in the streets of Oakland that continues to grow as the population increases. Bay Area Addiction Research and Treatment (BAART) has been providing drug treatment

Las Posadas Tradition continues

December 31, 2015 Rosalinda Hernandez

Growing up in East Oakland, in a Mexican-Catholic home, one of my favorite traditions about the holidays were Las Posadas at our local church in Jingletown. Las Posadas are a nine-day celebration celebrated throughout Mexico.

I Am Because We Are – OCO celebrates

December 30, 2015 Bill Joyce

Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) member Tracy Phillips scanned the tables spread out at the Eastmont Mall office during the group’s annual holiday gathering. “Like bees in a hive,” she mused. It was the culmination of

Oakland Holidays

December 22, 2015 Carlos Gonzalez

In Oakland, California, I recall the early years of going with my father to choose a pine tree from the sales lot across the street from Lake Merritt. We would place it on the roof

Tent City Oakland

December 18, 2015 Randy Filio

La Luz del Mundo’s Annual Christmas Tree Fundraiser

December 10, 2015 Rosalinda Hernandez

For five years now, La Luz del Mundo has set up a fundraising Christmas tree lot on 104th Avenue off of International Boulevard. I had the pleasure of speaking to a number of its members. They are

Is Graffiti Art? A Video Story

December 9, 2015 Angela Scott

The Future of Artists and Families in Oakland – Community Forum Tuesday

December 4, 2015 Sabah Williams