Community
Oakland residents met this past Saturday to discuss housing affordability and the future of their community.
Bay Area mayors challenge one another over which city can turn out the most volunteers and clean up the most trash in an event to raise awareness about illegal dumping.
For years, the Kwik Way drive-thru on Lake Park Avenue has been in limbo, as businesses come and go. Now, it will turned into affordable housing.
Oakland nonprofit Planting Justice provides education, skills training and employment opportunities to formerly incarcerated individuals and has reached its 10-year anniversary this year.
For organizers of the Eastlake district’s Night Market and Moon Festival, the event was a way to invest in community and local business.
Every September, the Alameda County Community Food Bank joins a network of 200 food banks nationwide for Hunger Action Month to promote volunteering, social media activity and advocacy to raise awareness about food insecurity, a term food bank staffers, activists and the government organizations use to mean that people lack access to enough safe, nutritious food to be healthy.
Oakland residents have started a trend to independently fund cabin communities for the homeless.
The presence of culture and community was radiant this weekend in Oakland during the 6th Annual Black-Eyed Pea Festival.
Dr. Joy DeGruy, a researcher, educator, and speaker on race, historical trauma, and violence, held a talk at First Congregational Church in Downtown Oakland on Friday.