mural Archives - Oakland Voices

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“Oakanda” Tour Celebrates Marvel’s ‘Wakanda Forever’ with a Tour of Oakland’s Historic Black History Sites

November 18, 2022 Brandy Collins

Late in the afternoon next to the Grand Lake Theater, a group of strangers piled into a van to have a one-of-a-kind, educational experience in The Town. Called the “Oakanda tour,” this specialized guided tour

An image of a Victorian home painted with baby blue and images of powerful Black women from the Black Panther Party painted on the outside of the house in West Oakland.

New West Oakland Mural Celebrates Black Joy and Women of Black Panther Party

February 28, 2021 Oakland Voices

“This is something people do not know. The history books do not carry us.” – Ericka Huggins

Her Resilience: From a Seed to a Flower

March 25, 2015 Sara Rowley

When I first spoke with Hazel Streete of the “Her Resilience: a Mural for Women Affected by Violence” project in the late fall of 2014, her team had just found a home for their

Her Resilience: Women in Control of their Own Image

December 9, 2014 Sara Rowley

Mural concept art by Nicole Gervacio Early in the morning on April 5th, 2014, the body of a young woman by the name of Kimberly Robertson was found, raped and beaten in Oakland’s F.M. Smith