VIDEO: Health of the Hood – What Makes the Mills College Neighborhood Unhealthy?
December 12, 2012By Katherine Brown - So what makes a neighborhood unhealthy? Is it limited access to fresh produce? Is it a liquor store on every corner? Or is it the speeding cars that zip up and...
View ArticleHealth of the Hood: The Dimond & Laurel Districts
December 12, 2012By Jian Di Liang - Greens relaxes us in busy life. It is nice to live in a neighborhood that can see greens everywhere , such as on the sidewalk and at people’s yards. Along the...
View ArticleOakland Teacher Brings Class, Comfort to Sick Students in Homes & Hospitals
December 12, 2012By Debora Gordon - What happens when a school age child is unable to attend school because of a health condition? Through California’s Home & Hospital programs, where teachers...
View ArticleVIDEO: Pictures of Health in Our Bay Area Communities
December 12, 2012By Ronald Owens - What’s healthy about our community? What’s not healthy about it? How can we improve it? These questions were posed to patrons of the Oakland Museum of California at...
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Rob Parker Suspended Over RGIII Remarks
December 14, 2012ESPN pundit questioned quarterback's blackness; school shooting moves ethics questions up front; in '80s, Obama says, he'd be called moderate Republican; given African past, Rice...
View ArticleThe Free Lance-Star Radio Group
Radio Marketing Consultant, Full Time Posted on: December 17, 2012Deadline: January 7, 2012The Free Lance-Star Radio Group, WFLS, WVBX, WWUZ and WNTX, a family owned and operated company, has a unique...
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Radio Host Pulls Smiley's Chain
December 17, 2012Story on "cease-and-desist" demand circulates; Unity groups choose "diversity," not "of color"; thorny issues collide in Newtown shooting tragedy; Cathy Hughes, Tarantino say they like...
View ArticleEast Oakland Poet ‘Bossman’ Puts in Work to Heal, Teach
December 18, 2012By Katrina Davis - “My name is Dre, aka Duke the Bossman – MC, host, artist, educator.” Just a few of the ways East Oakland spoken word poet Dre Johnson describes himself. However, for...
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The Hustle: Homemade Jewelry, Just to Get By
December 19, 2012By Sheila Blandon - Ivet Castro is a 20-year old immigrant Mexican woman living in Oakland with hopes to improve her living circumstances and help her mother at the same time. Castro...
View ArticleRecovery
December 19, 2012By Sabirah Mustafa - Tell me / What is recovery? / Is it what you recover from? / Like the opposite of subtraction that uncovers a sum? / Or,/ Is it what you recover to? / Like a...
View ArticleSnail Mail Part I: Friends That Would Die For You
December 19, 2012By Debora Gordon - On July 15, using the California Inmate Locator website, I wrote a letter to Lam, asking if he was my student. I didn’t receive an answer until the end of August,...
View ArticleSnail Mail Part II: A Mellow or a Violent Guy?
December 19, 2012By Debora Gordon - It is a strange way to get acquainted or re-acquainted with someone, through postal mail filtered by the prison mail system. With every page is stamped “State...
View ArticleSnail Mail Part III: Is Forgiveness for the Victim or the Forgiven?
December 19, 2012By Debora Gordon - On a more personal level than the criminal justice system, many of us on the “outside” also seek redress for harm done. In the school system, of late, there has been...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Health of the Hood – Eastlake, Toxic & Under Construction
December 19, 2012By Edward Cervantes - Lake Merritt has four main residential areas: the Lakeside Apartments District, in the area around Jackson and Madison Streets; Adams Point/Grand Lake, off Grand...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Health of the Hood – Maxwell Park
December 19, 2012By Katrina Davis - The things that make Maxwell Park unhealthy are few and far between, but there nonetheless. Recently a store promoting lower prices replaced a grocery store on...
View ArticleA Message to Oakland: Love’s in Need of Love Today
December 19, 2012By Katherine Brown - Stevie could not have penned words any more true than the lyrics of this song. I’d like to believe that Stevie must have been thinking about – or at least foreseen...
View ArticlePHOTOS: BART Life
December 19, 2012By Katrina Davis - BART is usually seen as just a way to get around the Bay Area. You get on, put your ticket in (or swipe your Clipper card), take a ride and, bam! you’re on your...
View ArticleIt's Time for Ordinary People To Lead Discussion on Guns
Dori J. Maynard December 20, 2012My first job out of college was in Bakersfield, Calif., far from the Northeast where I was born and raised.There were a multitude of differences that required not only...
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