Arts and Culture
Council Adopts Kaplan’s $3.2 Billion Budget
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Business, Economic Development, Gentrification, Health, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Immigrant Rights, Labor, LGBT, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice Bas…
‘White’ Challenges Privilege in Shotgun Players’ Comedy
Posted in Arts and Culture Adam Donovan as Gus and Santoya Fields as Vanessa star in the West Coast…
Oaklanders Urge City to Take Legal Action Against NFL and Raiders
Posted in Arts and Culture, Economic Development, Responsive Government, sports Shown (L t R): Bob Bobbit, Griz Jones, Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, (behind…
Oakland Public Library Discards African American History Books
By Post Staff Community activist Assata Olugbala shocked members of the community and council members when she…
“America Untold” Storytellers Come to the Marsh Theater
Posted in Arts and Culture, Community Stagebridge’s “America Untold” Storytellers. Photo by Ken Epstein “America Untold¨ Performance comes to the Marsh…
Storytellers Spin True Tales About Life Under Trump
Posted in Arts and Culture Stagebridge participant Beverly Miles: “Nobody ever sees the problem as the problem. IIt doesn’t…
Oakland Steps Out for Faith with a Joyful Noise
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Community, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, History and remembering, Housing/Foreclosures, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling On Saturday, Nov. 7, churches and community…
Gentrification Threatens Oakland Churches and Artists
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Community, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Oakland Job Programs, Racial profiling, Restorative Justice Coalition of faith-based, housing and cultural groups…
Art Exhibit at Oakland’s Betti Ono Gallery Exposes Realities Migrants Experience in Detention
Posted in Arts and Culture, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Immigrant Rights Visitors to the Betti Ono gallery exhibit “Visions from the Inside”…
Community Turns Up the Volume to Defend Residents and Businesses
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Business, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures Activists demand “Development Without Displacement” after mayor’s staff says there is…