Community
New West Oakland Skate Park Runs into Bumpy Ground
Posted in Arts and Culture, Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Gentrification By Tasion Kwamilele A conflict over a skate park in West Oakland has become…
Councilmembers Back $3,000 a Month Apartment Tower Project, Opposed by Eastlake Neighbors
Rendering of Lake Merritt Boulevard Apartments, courtesy of UrbanCore. By Ken Epstein The City Council’s Community and…
Hundreds Defend ‘Afrika Town’ Community Garden
Posted in Arts and Culture, Community, Health The Afrika Town community garden and mural are located at 23rd Street and San…
Unless Last-ditch Efforts Succeed, Doctors Hospital to Begin Closing in April
Posted in Community, Health, Responsive Government, Richmond By Post Staff Despite pleas from the public and staff at Doctor’s Medical Center in…
State of Black Oakland (SOBO) Holds “People’s Assembly”
Posted in Community, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Ferguson/Black Lives Matter, Gentrification, Health, History and remembering, Housing/Foreclosures, LGBT, Oakland Job Programs, Police-Public Safety, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government By Rasheed Shabazz Hundreds of…
Teachers, Parents and Students March for Better Schools
Posted in Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Labor, Responsive Government By Ken Epstein Several hundred students, parents and teachers held a rally and marched through…
City Council Votes to Protect Businesses in the Path of Coliseum City Project
Posted in Coliseum City, Community, Economic Development, Environment, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Transportation By Ken Epstein The City Council voted Tuesday to keep residential…
UC Berkeley Black Students Face “State of Emergency”
Posted in Berkeley, Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Ferguson/Black Lives Matter By Rasheed Shabazz Black students at UC Berkeley, saying they are facing isolation,…
Latino Students Are “Overlooked and Poorly Represented” in Oakland Unified
Posted in Community, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Immigrant Rights, Labor By Jorge Lerma Latinos are not getting fair representation. Latinos make up 41…
Opinion: Oakland Needs Office of Race and Equity
Posted in Commentary, Community, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Health, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, LGBT, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Uncategorized “Allow ourselves to become comfortable with being uncomfortable” By Desley Brooks…