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The Museum of Digital Art and Entertainment, or the M.A.D.E., is a gateway to, and an archive for, video game history, showcasing consoles and games from gaming’s early days in the 1970’s to the present day. Not only does it showcase video game history, the museum also holds free classes such as beginner coding and game designing for participants of all ages. Other museums have shown limited video game exhibits, while Stanford University has its own private video game archive. The M.A.D.E.,…
After a shocking Donald Trump presidential victory, groups in Oakland are taking action against the President-Elect’s proposed policies.
Following a talk by Reverend Al Sharpton on banning menthols, a debate on policing and tobacco companies raises questions.
The latest U.S. Labor Department data shows that nurses are facing potential violence at work, prompting safety advocates to demand stricter rules and regulations.
When she was 12, Gabby Falzone and her family became homeless in New York. At 15, she ran away. She moved between squats and stints with her family, but said she suffered too much abuse from them to stay for long. At 17, she moved to Boston, where she said she survived by exchanging sex for rent. At 19, she got into a friend’s car and drove to San Francisco. Within a month, she said, she was shooting heroin. “I…
How Kelley Nayo Jahi, the operations chief of Oakland-based hackathon incubator Qeyno Labs, is trying to close the opportunity gap in Oakland.
Thousands of people linked hands around Lake Merritt Sunday afternoon, forming a human chain that stretched around the entire lake.
On Friday evening, around 200 protesters gathered at Broadway and 14th Street near Frank Ogawa Plaza for a passionate but peaceful demonstration. Fewer people gathered than on previous nights–which drew crowds of between 2,000 and 7,000–but protesters expressed a need to come together in solidarity to condemn Donald Trump’s election and what they called state-sanctioned hate and violence. A woman with a megaphone rallied the crowd, saying, “This is bigger than Donald Trump. This is bigger than hate! We need…
For the second night in a row, on Wednesday protesters took to Oakland’s streets to demonstrate against the election of Donald Trump as the president of the United States.
What started as a series of peaceful daytime walkouts and rallies largely led by students at East Bay high schools and in downtown Oakland turned violent soon after nightfall. Protest organizers urged women, children and the frail to leave, and soon after, Oakland police officers began forming skirmish lines and using tear gas as protesters broke windows, burned Trump in effigy and set a series of small fires on downtown streets.