Ivy Hill makes me, an Oakland-born Chinese-Vietnamese woman, feel at home.
For the first time, I feel part of an Oakland landscape, and can embrace being Chinese-Vietnamese, and second-generation American.
Neighborhoods
New East Oakland Grocery Co-op Looking for Founding Members
A new grocery cooperative in East Oakland is recruiting up to eight founding cohort members by May, who will then go through a 12-week training over the summer to become the first group of worker-owners in[Read more]
Oaklanders Meet Over A’s New Ballpark Community Benefits
With a waterfront ballpark moving closer to an Oakland reality, City government has launched an effort to bring community and business stakeholders together and also to inject consciousness about equity into the process. The Howard[Read more]
The Key to The East Oakland Collective’s Candice Elder: Purpose
My initial telephone meeting with Candice Elder provided me with an opportunity to learn not only about a few of her efforts generated within the East Oakland Collective, but more importantly, it provided me a[Read more]
Doom, gloom on the streets of Deep East Oakland
Oakland Voices correspondent Amelah El-Amin walks you down a block in Deep East Oakland.
