Oakland Activist Kenzie Smith Was the Man on the Moon
What We Can Learn from a Community Activist Who Died Young Suffering from PTSD and Mental Health When...
Five Years After BBQ Becky – What Media Has Consistently Gotten Wrong
Five years after “BBQ Becky” was dubbed into meme infamy, the story has become a hero myth, losing...
Tupac Shakur, the Modern Day Makeveli Prince
What We Can Learn from Dear Mama Docuseries on Tupac and Afeni Shakur’s Legacies, The Black Panthers, and Niccolò Machiavelli's book “The Prince.”
Art Blooms in Oakland After Chaotic Protest Nights End
If silence is violence, the residents of Oakland have an answer for that; art. Throughout Saturday artists of all ages and ethnicities took their paint, paintbrushes and spray paint to claim boarded windows in Downtown Oakland as forms of beautiful expression.
