A poster of Muhammad Ali watches over the East Oakland Boxing Association’s gym, a visual reminder of the discipline and resilience it takes to be great. The only other posters in the facility are visually minimal, but powerfully messaged. “Live everyday as if it were your last,” reads the quote on the Ali poster, “because someday you’re going to be right.” The message is personal for the EOBA. Former Executive Director Solomon Howard was sentenced to prison in September for…
The Oakland chapter of the NAACP on Monday announced a new collaboration with the Oakland Police Department to recruit more officers from the community, especially Black residents as well as other people of color. At a press conference at the Oakland NAACP west office, retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte, an executive member of NAACP Oakland, spoke about racial patterns she has noticed among crime victims. “I realized that the vast majority of cases, the victims were African…