Neighborhoods Archives - Oakland Voices

What’s Your Favorite Place in the Town?

March 4, 2024 Oakland Voices

Oakland Voices correspondents share their favorite places in the Town.

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

April 14, 2022 Carina V. Lieu

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

A young indigenous woman with her hair in a bun speaks in a microphone at a well-lit room. A sign behind her says "What Does Wellness Feel Like?"

New East Oakland Grocery Co-op Looking for Founding Members

March 3, 2020 Patricia Contreras-Flores

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

Doom, gloom on the streets of Deep East Oakland

August 1, 2019 Amelah El-Amin

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

Bancroft between 66th Ave. and Havenscourt

July 11, 2014 Tiffany Lacsado

It is a Sunday mid-morning on Bancroft Avenue between 66th and Havenscourt. People are milling around going from one place to the next. The “saved” are in cars circling the block, praying to the parking angels