Photo Essay about the life of Kiflay Habte, an Eritrean barber living in North Oakland.
Meet Oakland’s new hybrid cafe-coworking space and the man behind it.
For three months, Phyllis left her house every night at 9:30 p.m., stood on the sidewalk and looked around, the streetlight illuminating 54th Street in a fluorescent haze. She studied the windows of the homes next door and across the street, wondering if anyone inside might have peered out and seen what happened on the night of June 5. Her gaze would drift to the ground in front of her driveway, stopping on a fist-sized square drawn in chalk. If…
A crowd of protesters filled downtown Oakland Monday night in reaction to the decision by a grand jury in St. Louis, Missouri, not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. By 5:50 pm, a crowd of several hundred had gathered in the intersection of Broadway and 14th Street in downtown Oakland. A group of people briefly tried to enter the 880 freeway at the Jackson Street entrance, but were turned away by police officers without incident. The crowd…
As election results rolled in after the polls closed last night, advocates for several major policy changes celebrated victories at the state, county and local levels, including a statewide initiative that reduced penalties for certain non-violent offenses, an increase in Alameda County’s sales tax and a raise for Oakland’s minimum wage. Alameda County residents agreed to double a transit-funding sales tax to one percent last night by passing Measure BB. (Voters defeated the similar Measure B two years ago.) The…
Around 400 people gathered in downtown Oakland yesterday to protest police violence as part of a nationwide event. The event, dubbed the “National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation,” was organized by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network.
Twenty-five years later, they returned to the site where the earthquake wreaked the most havoc, to remember a day they could never quite forget.
Members of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders took some time to befriend and pass on gifts to female cancer patients as part of October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
A photo/audio slide show of Oakland’s 2014 Eat Real festival.
The Oakland Museum and SFMOMA unveil “Fertile Ground,” exploring creative communities in California art.