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Health & Wellness

The Center for Independent Living’s Taco Truck Festivities in the Fruitvale

October 21, 2022 Bill Joyce 1

The brisk morning air under gray skies didn’t chill the festive mood along International Boulevard last Friday on the lot of taco truck Aguachiles El Tamarindo. Billed as “a taco truck lot take-over,” the “Fruitvale […]

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Arts & Culture

High Street Presbyterian Church, a Hidden Julia Morgan-designed East Oakland Gem

August 16, 2022 Marabet Morales Sikahall 8

If you live or have lived in East Oakland, chances are that you have at some point driven up or down High Street to get to your destination, whether it’s to 580, 880, to the […]

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

January 1, 2022 Rasheed Shabazz 0

Family, community gathers in Oakland to remember Oscar Grant. […]

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Arts & Culture

Community is Key to Indigenous Red Market in Fruitvale

July 19, 2021 Tony Daquipa 1

The Indigenous Red Market, co-sponsored by NAHC and the Intertribal Friendship House, is free to the public. Indigenous Red Market in Oakland, CA, was started by the Native American Health Center and Intertribal Friendship House. […]

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COVID-19

Coliseum and Fremont HS Will Open As Vaccine Distribution Sites

February 10, 2021 Howard Dyckoff 1

Starting this week, some Oakland seniors 65 and older — alongside food and agriculture essential workers, emergency workers, and education and childcare workers — will receive their vaccines near the Fruitvale district. And starting next […]

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Arts & Culture

Filmmaker Alex Bledsoe Seeks Families in Oakland Who Experienced Lead Poisoning

February 3, 2021 Momo Chang 0

Award-winning filmmaker seeking subjects from Oakland to interview about lead poisoning. […]

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COVID-19

One in five homeless students in Oakland not attending online class

October 22, 2020 Momo Chang 1

High rates of Oakland’s homeless, foster, and new immigrant students have dropped out from online learning. […]

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COVID-19

Air Quality Bad – stay indoors if possible; protect your neighbors from smoke inhalation by donating to Mask Oakland

September 10, 2020 Momo Chang 3

Mask Oakland is donating N95 masks to homeless populations and organizations that work with unhoused populations. Our curbside neighbors are most at risk for smoke inhalation. […]

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COVID-19

Oakland’s BIPOC-owned vandalized businesses tell their story

July 14, 2020 Bill Joyce and Aqueila M. Lewis-Ross 1

Oakland Voices Correspondents chat with several small, BIPOC-owned businesses in Oakland following the vandalism that affected more than 200 businesses. […]

COVID-19

COVID-19 cases still rising in Oakland, as people protest police killings

June 1, 2020 Rasheed Shabazz 1

As protests sweep through the U.S., COVID-19 cases rise. Fruitvale is Oakland’s coronavirus epicenter. […]

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Steph and Ayesha Curry’s Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation to Remodel Six Oakland Schoolyards

May 23, 2023 1

This past weekend, Allendale Elementary in East Oakland revealed a newly-constructed playground, garden, and mural to the community. Allendale is the first of six Oakland public schools that will receive a new playground, thanks to […]

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