BART Archives - Oakland Voices

Photos: Children’s Fairyland celebrates 75 years in Oakland

September 2, 2025 Rasheed Shabazz

Children’s Fairyland celebrated 75 years in Oakland with a birthday bash and parade.

Talk of the Town: How do you imagine West Oakland looked before the BART Station and the Post Office were built?

August 5, 2024 Nikia Durgin

Nikia Durgan asked West Oakland residents in the Lower Bottoms to imagine what West Oakland looked like before BART and the Post Office.

A woman wearing a head wrap shows another woman a book

Black Cultural Zone’s “Uptown Market” Showcases Oakland’s Local Entrepreneurs

September 11, 2023 Brandy Collins

A partnership between Black Cultural Zone and Block, the new Uptown Market features Oakland vendors and wares.

Community gathers at Fruitvale Station in Oakland 13 years after murder of Oscar Grant

January 1, 2022 Rasheed Shabazz

Family, community gathers in Oakland to remember Oscar Grant.

cellular image of novel coronavirus with the word Oakland above

Oakland COVID-19 Update: First Alameda County death, AC Transit fare-free, Oakland schools

March 23, 2020 Rasheed Shabazz

COVID-19 in Oakland: First coronavirus-related death in Alameda County, AC Transit fare-free, Oakland schools closed, Kaiser treats cruise ship passengers or crew.

Oakland Coronavirus Update

March 20, 2020 Rasheed Shabazz

Bay Area lockdown expands to entire state of California; Oakland City Council hopes to halt evictions; BART to cut service; and Grand Princess leaves Port of Oakland.

Sweet and Bitter

January 8, 2018 Tonya Shipp

I’m leaving my $1400 – a-month two-bedroom rented house, locking my closet door; otherwise, known as my front door, with the leaky roof above it. I lock the two locks on my security door and

PHOTOS: BART Life

December 19, 2012 Katrina Davis

Photos & Story By Katrina Davis BART is usually seen as just a way to get around the Bay Area. You get on, put your ticket in (or swipe your Clipper card), take a ride

Oakland’s Oasis: Farmer’s Market Cultivates Positivity in the Fruitvale Village

August 22, 2012 Katherine Brown

By Katherine Brown With every roar of a bus engine and horn toot from an overhead BART train, waves of people fill the Fruitvale Village. Not just to get to their next destination, but to