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Posts Tagged ‘West Oakland Youth Center’

Raiders players read to West Oakland children in effort to promote literacy

By Maria Sestito | December 14, 2018

The Oakland Raiders teamed up with the West Oakland Youth Center and First Book, a nonprofit that gives books to children in low-income neighborhoods, to bring free books to children during their “Rush to Read” event on Tuesday night.

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In West Oakland, the “Tree of Life” traveling mural project urges neighborhood healing

By Madeleine Thomas | January 14, 2013
The mural will adorn the outside of the West Oakland Youth Center until construction of the building is complete.

On a barren West Oakland corner, amongst homes where the windows and front yards are gated and dead-bolted protectively from the world outside, now stands a “Tree of Life” — the Attitudinal Healing Connection’s debut traveling mural project. The mural and all seven of its transportable panels were unveiled Thursday afternoon at the West Oakland…

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