Community
Groups are gearing up for the 2020 Census and reaching out to hard-to-count groups in Oakland.
At Bishop O’Dowd High School in the Oakland hills, gardener Ned Lange is making small-batch vermicompost from the school’s food scraps. He takes scraps like leafy greens, peels, and stems that won’t make it into the cooked lunch, and blends them into a smoothie that he feeds into an 8-by-4-foot corrugated steel bin that is home to 100 pounds of worms. He lifts the roof off and carefully peels back pages of damp newspaper that are beginning to disintegrate. Underneath,…
All 22 protesters arrested late Sunday in front of Oakland City Hall have been released from Santa Rita Jail as of late Tuesday night.
Autumn Ross uses alternative medicine to help the LGBTQ community navigate challenges.
Muralist Desi Mundo teaches kids
at Unity High school how to sketch and write graffiti
At a special meeting on Wednesday night, Oakland school board members voted to deny one charter school a petition for renewal and failed to approve renewals for two others, planning to consider both again at the December 2 meeting.
Acta Non Verba celebrates Nine years of helping the youth in Oakland with a silent reading fundraiser.
Journalists hold a rally to denounce what they say are a decline in working conditions at The East Bay Times, San Jose Mercury News and Monterey Herald as a consequence of nearly a decade of ownership under MediaNews Group and its hedge fund owner, Alden Global Capital.
Non-profit organization Playworks opened a new community space in downtown Oakland last week called RoShamBo.