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Oakland residents must stay home, Bay Area health officials order

March 17, 2020 Rasheed Shabazz

Bay Area health officials order residents to stay home.

cellular image of novel coronavirus with the word Oakland above

Oakland school, college closures due to Coronavirus

March 16, 2020 Rasheed Shabazz

Schools and colleges and Oakland closed due to Coronavirus-related concerns.

Grand Princess Cruise Ship to dock in Oakland today

March 9, 2020 Rasheed Shabazz

A cruise ship with passengers infected with the coronavirus will dock in Oakland today.

The Black Organizing Project is calling for the elimination of the Oakland Unified School Police force.

Oakland Unified Seeks to Cut Over $20 Million for Second Year in a Row

March 3, 2020 Tony Daquipa

At last week’s Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) school board meeting on February 26, several big topics were on the agenda: over $20 million in proposed budget cuts and an update on the indefinite closure

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

McClymonds High parents express concern for students health, education following campus closure

February 26, 2020 Ayodele Nzinga

Following the closure of McClymonds High School due to potentially contaminated water, parents are concerned about the health of their children and the closure will have on their students.

Health crisis in Oakland

February 17, 2020 Yadira Cervantes

High health insurance costs have intensified the public health crisis in Oakland.

An illustrated image of a baseball park near the waterfront in Oakland, CA.

Oaklanders Meet Over A’s New Ballpark Community Benefits

February 10, 2020 Howard Dyckoff

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

Photos: 2020 Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy

January 24, 2020 Rasheed Shabazz

On Monday, Jan. 20, the Anti-Police Terror Project hosted the annual Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy event to honor the forgotten perspective of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. This year’s event centered around the recent efforts

Moms 4 Housing: A Movement Begins

January 22, 2020 Brandy Collins

On Monday, November 18, 2019, two mothers boldly began occupying a West Oakland house that had been vacant for two years on Magnolia Street. Dominique Walker, 34, and Sameerah Karim, 41, members of Moms 4