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East Oakland Futures Festival: Imagining a thriving future for East Oakland

July 11, 2022 Rasheed Shabazz 0

East Oakland Futures Festival combines arts, urban planning, and Afrofuturism. […]

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Ivy Hill makes me, an Oakland-born Chinese-Vietnamese woman, feel at home.

April 14, 2022 Carina V. Lieu 1

For the first time, I feel part of an Oakland landscape, and can embrace being Chinese-Vietnamese, and second-generation American. […]

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Family resilience

New East Oakland Grocery Co-op Looking for Founding Members

March 3, 2020 Patricia Contreras Flores 0

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 […]

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Neighborhoods

Oaklanders Meet Over A’s New Ballpark Community Benefits

February 10, 2020 Howard Dyckoff 1

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 […]

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Neighborhoods

The Key to The East Oakland Collective’s Candice Elder: Purpose

January 22, 2020 JoAnn Hollis-Bell 0

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 […]

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Doom, gloom on the streets of Deep East Oakland

August 1, 2019 Amelah El-Amin 0

Oakland Voices correspondent Amelah El-Amin walks you down a block in Deep East Oakland. […]

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Oakland Voices Alumni Spotlight: Debora Gordon

Oakland Voices has trained dozens of community journalists over the years. We caught up with one of our alumna, Debora Gordon. In our last update about Gordon, we mentioned that she published a children’s book. As [...]
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Education

Bishop O’Dowd To Unveil New Facility With High School Hoops Showcase

November 23, 2022 1

The sounds of sneakers squeaking, basketballs bouncing, and coaches yelling echoed throughout Bishop O’Dowd’s brand new, state-of-the-art, 1,300 plus capacity gymnasium. This gym is the crown jewel of the private Catholic school’s new $40 million […]

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