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OUSD’s biweekly school board meeting focused on Dewey Academy and its future, the issue of biased detentions in Oakland schools, and special education.
Proposition 45, a November ballot measure empowering the state’s elected insurance commissioner to rule on health insurance rate hikes, is drawing heated debate and hefty donations from Oakland groups with a stake in health care.
“This is Jose,” said Captain Steven Tull of Oakland’s Police Department (OPD) District 4. “He doesn’t think about himself — he thinks about others.” Jose Ortiz, a longtime community organizer in the Fruitvale district, smiled humbly as he was honored in many testimonies delivered by attendees at his appreciation event last Saturday evening inside the gym of the Manzanita Recreation Center. Ortiz’s business partner Big Lou Feliciano and members of his Street Inspiration Low Rider Car Club were joined by…
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.
The first ‘Feeding the 5,000’ event in the United States took place at Frank Ogawa Plaza on Saturday. More than 5,000 servings of lunch were prepared out of fruits and vegetables that would otherwise have been wasted.
A photography and storytelling project shares the lives, now turned around, of 20 formerly incarcerated residents of Alameda County.
It’s hard being a die-hard A’s fan when the Giants are doing their World Series thing again. Especially when it feels like the entire Bay Area has caught Giants fever–even AC Transit buses in Oakland are rooting for the San Francisco team.
Oakland Public Library, home to much more than books and shelves, encounters an old foe – funding.
Two women rolled out a grass carpet on MLK, and then served free lemonade one sunny September morning. A year later this space has become a symbol of change and community.