Posts Tagged ‘Community’
Hundreds gather at Lake Merritt for Japanese Moon Viewing Festival
Oaklanders gathered by moonlight for a traditional Japanese celebration of the Harvest Moon.
Read MoreOakland Drink & Draw event connects, inspires local artists
Oaklanders get together weekly for a boozy drawing party at The New Parkway.
Read MoreNew report: women pay price for incarcerated family members
Community organizers say the report helps show the reality of economic debt for families of incarcerated people.
Read MoreDolores Huerta on civil justice: “We don’t have to feel helpless”
The co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association and civil rights advocate talked to students at Samuel Merritt University about social justice and healthcare for immigrants.
Read MoreSlain rapper The Jacka leaves legacy in the Bay Area
The hip-hop community is mourning the loss of the Jacka, 37, whose given name was Dominic Newton. For many, the death of the rapper also means the loss of a mentor to at-risk youth and young artists in the Bay Area.
Read MoreMobile asthma clinic provides free treatment for kids
Breathmobile provides diagnosis, treatment, prescriptions, medicine supply and education at no cost for children under age 18 in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Read MorePop-up cafe uses food to change lives
An Oakland pop-up cafe seeks to utilize a recipe-for-success to brighten futures for local girls and young women.
Read MoreOPD squad car of fallen officer revamped into Oakland’s first police low rider
“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…
Read MoreMLK parklet becomes the seed for a neighborhood’s dreams
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.
Read MoreArtist James Gayles fuses watercolor paintings with poetry
When several art forms, disciplines and cultural backgrounds blend, there comes reflection, innovation and imagination. James Gayles, an Oakland-based Emmy Award-winning artist and musician, is striving to draw out the aesthetic value hidden in the intersection between painting and literature through a collaborative book he’s titled Reflection. He juxtaposes his own watercolor paintings of iconic…
Read MoreBrooklyn Basin development troubles waterfront artists’ community
Brooklyn Basin, a much-anticipated development project, is taking shape on the waterfront in Oakland. But the artists’ community on Fifth Avenue is worried that the condos on the way will disrupt their work and life styles.
Read MoreDiesel, the heart of Oakland’s literary community, celebrates 25 years
Beloved Rockridge bookstore Diesel turns 25 this week. It celebrates its past and looks to the future.
Read MoreStudents receive free new shoes at annual back-to-school giveaway
Thousands of low-income students gather at the Oracle Arena parking lot to receive a new pair of free shoes.
Read MoreOakland cyclists celebrate Bike to Work Day
Extremely tall pink bikes, decorated beach cruisers, twin bikes and even a Scandinavian model took over the streets of Old Oakland Wednesday evening and clustered at the Happy Hour Bike Party as Oaklanders celebrated the end of the 20th East Bay Bike to Work Day, organized by the East Bay Bicycle Coalition (EBBC). “With Bike…
Read MoreEvery Saturday, SAVE honors one of Oakland’s homicide victims with a march
On a recent Saturday morning in Oakland, a group of residents marched and chanted, “Stop the violence, stop the silence! Do something!” The group calls themselves SAVE, an acronym for Soldiers Against Violence Everywhere. “We are soldiers,” said Theresa Butler, SAVE’s coordinator. “We are here in the rain, cold doing what we do.” SAVE was…
Read MoreAt Castlemont, new school year brings changes, challenges
As Norman Ospina, the school attendance clerk and a translator at Castlemont High School in East Oakland, crossed the courtyard on a crisp overcast fall morning, he spotted a young man he believed had been involved in a campus brawl on September 21. Ospina, whose students call him “Mr. O,” placed his index finger over…
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