Alex Park is a religion & community reporter for Oakland North. As a journalist, he has reporting experience in the Bay Area and abroad and his work has appeared in a number of different independent literary journals in print and online and local news sites in the Bay Area. Since beginning in 2008, he has blogged in South Africa and reported on Northern Cyprus. In college, he also published an award-winning sociology paper on a 2008 period of anti-immigrant violence in South Africa, since cited multiple times in various academic works on the subject. Currently, his interests lie in examining complex social systems-- be they governments, conflicts or waves of immigration-- and explaining them to a general audiences in easy to understand language.
With California's powerful redevelopment agencies and their corresponding powers now either extinct or on the fence, Oakland and other cities are facing a new problem:...
On the Oakland waterfront, in a historic area called“Jingletown” that recalls the sound of full-pockets and big paydays from years ago, an American manufacturing survival...
When journalist Chauncey Bailey was gunned down in front of a downtown Oakland parking lot in August 2007 by a 19-year-old named Devaughdre Broussard, the...
At a Friday afternoon press conference outside the Interfaith Tent on Frank Ogawa Plaza, at the edge of the Occupy Oakland encampment, nine clergy members...
Amid rumors circulating of a police raid later that night, several hundred people packed the steps and floor of Frank Ogawa Plaza on Wednesday evening...
Every village needs a church—or perhaps a non-denominational interfaith tent—to fill the spiritual needs of its inhabitants, and according to a recently formed group of...
Members of the Occupy Oakland general assembly discussed more details of the proposed general strike in the early evening Friday, agreeing after much fanfare to...
In recent years, Oakland has emerged as a major entry point for Mongolian immigrants. Nine years after Oktyabri’s arrival, more than 1,000 are believed to...
Armenian Americans may be one of the Bay Area's less-noticed ethnic groups, but this Friday and Saturday at the Armenian Bazaar & Food Festival, their...
During a tense meeting near Oakland's downtown last week, residents of the 23rd Street and Telegraph area voiced their concerns over recent violence at the...
An overflow crowd packed Oakland's Cathedral of Christ the Light near Lake Merritt early Sunday evening for a concert on the tenth anniversary of the...
During a day of national remembrance for the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, on Sunday the Oakland Symphony Chorus and the Oakland Civic...
Thousands of East Bay residents, gay and straight, celebrated last year's gay rights triumphs on Sunday at Oakland's second annual Gay Pride Festival. A landmark...
This Weekend in Oakland
Looking for something fun to do? Community events and activities for the weekend of May 17-19, 2013.
