Interested in telling stories about your community? Oakland Voices, a community journalism project serving Oakland, is accepting applications for its 2019 program. The new deadline to apply is Monday, April 15. We want people who seek to serve as news and information providers on behalf of the community. The program is looking for Oakland residents …Read more…
Maynard Institute names new Oakland Voices Coordinator
Multimedia journalist Rasheed Shabazz will coordinate the Maynard Institute’s flagship community storytelling program, Oakland Voices, the organization announced today. Shabazz has a range of journalism and community organizing experiences that will support this new phase of the program. Shabazz has most recently freelanced for the East Bay Express, and has previo experience with Indybay, Oakland …Read more…
EO Congress of Neighborhoods Celebrates First Year on 9/29
Residents of East Oakland are being invited to a birthday party for an infant community organization. Its been a year since the call went out and the new East Oakland Congress of Neighborhoods formed.? Now they are calling the community back for a first anniversary meeting and celebration. The inaugural meeting last September brought together …Read more…
Cinque’s View
The Oakland Voices 2017-2018 graduation from the unique perspective of Cinque Mubarak.
Oakland Voices 2017-2018 Graduate
The Oakland Voices 2017-2018 class graduated July 20, 2018 – Patricia Contreras-Flores, Hannah Moore, Kevonna Taylor, Tonya Shipp, Eduardo Jimenez and Ryan Barba. Congratulations.
Oakland Voices and KALW produce Hey Area stories
Oakland Voices alum have been working with KALW public radio station to develop radio stories about East Oakland. Here are the links to the stories: Tony Daquipa reports on the best places to by fresh produce in East Oakland with WIC vouchers Best Place for Fresh Produce with WIC vouchers Howard Dyckoff digs deep …Read more…
A Shout-Out To RBA Creative
A big shout- out to Randolph Charles Belle for hosting Oakland Voices Cohort Group #6 ?at his space, RBA Creative, for our twice -a- month meetings. ?For sometimes entrting his keys to our coordinator so he could get home to his family. ?For being alert and helpful during our meetings.? For the proficiency and efficiency …Read more…
Flores flowering in gratitude
Recently in the midst of so much heaviness on all fronts, I went looking for some hope. I returned to poetry, my first written love form. I stumbled upon a poem that my former student (a third, fourth or fifth- grader at the time) typed up for a poetry appreciation class I led at Sequoia’s …Read more…
Cruising Through The Fruitvale District
The Fruitvale District is huge. ?I cruised it on three separate days. ?There are three biness districts surrounded by residences. ?I rode up Fruitvale Avenue and walked along Foothill Boulevard a few blocks in each direction from Coolidge to 36th Avenue to Rutherford. ?I’ve ridden by the area on the b on many occasions and …Read more…
Investing for East Oakland
We all know the wave of development is phing folks farther into East Oakland, the deeper parts. Parts that local folks call Deep East Oakland. Past the 70s into the 80s and 90s. An area mostly ignored by City Hall for many decades yet home to many. Construction is tearing up the streets and the …Read more…