Under pressure from residents, Oakland council committee backs off plate-reader contract
A deadlocked vote at an Oakland City Council subcommittee late Tuesday night narrowly prevented the expansion of the city’s contract with a quickly growing but increasingly controversial surveillance camera company. read more…
ICE activity prompts Oakland school lockdowns, turning student fears into reality
As a child of immigrants, 14-year-old Quetzali Precadio-Cruz has always known what ICE was, but her anxiety surrounding immigration enforcement grew last summer when she read about the agency tripling read more…
In Oakland, sneakers aren’t just shoes but ‘beautiful pieces of wearable art.’
Misty Rose sat in concentration, threading, measuring, and cutting as she re-soled an old pair of Chuck Taylor Converse by hand. She was transforming the worn-out sneakers, which her niece read more…
Oakland police make arrest in ‘targeted’ killing of Laney Coach John Beam
Oakland police arrested a suspect Friday morning in the “targeted” killing of Laney College athletic director and longtime Oakland football coach John Beam, who was shot on campus Thursday and read more…
Oakland gets first rainbow crosswalk: ‘It tells every trans, queer and non-binary person … they are welcome’
Dozens of local queer leaders, community members and allies gathered at the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center on a rainy Thursday afternoon to celebrate the unveiling of the city’s first permanent read more…
“100 Years of Creative Visions”: Mills College Art Museum celebrates a century of diversity and community
Enveloped in vibrant drips of red and green paint sits a child with bound feet feeding her brother rice, the latter’s gaze piercing and vivid. Standing at 80 inches, Hung read more…
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