Community News
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Racist game, article from 1940 included in Bay Area elementary school yearbook
Parents at Oakland’s Montclair Elementary School are outraged after a racist 1940 article, including a game, wound up in the school’s yearbook. By Dan Noyes Monday, June 2, 2025 OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Parents at an East Bay elementary are having some difficult conversations with their children Monday night after a very racist expression wound up…
CA superintendent defends transgender athlete inclusion in school sports
California State Superintendent Tony Thurmond is defending the state’s inclusion of transgender athletes in public school sports. By Monica Madden Wednesday, June 4, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — California’s public schools could face legal consequences if transgender student athletes continue competing on teams that align with their gender identity, according to a Monday memo from the U.S. Department…
Outrage after North Bay school district cancels contracts for Black student program leaders
A heated board meeting ended with the Tamalpais Union High School District voting against a plan to fund the Black Student Success Support Team. By J.R. Stone Wednesday, June 4, 2025 LARKSPUR, Calif. (KGO) — A heated school board meeting in the North Bay has ended with the Tamalpais Union High School District voting against a…
1st-of-its-kind fund provides scholarships for LGBTQ college students in California
The National Rainbow College Fund is giving LGBTQ students based in California scholarships, and the organization hopes to become a national entity. By Tim Johns Tuesday, May 6, 2025 BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) — Like millions of high school students around the country, when the time came for Elliott Turner to go to college, financing was an…
How this Vietnamese service center uniquely caters to Santa Clara County community, refugees
The center integrates medical and dental services, nutrition programs and wellness for the Vietnamese American community. By Suzanne Phan and Juan Carlos Guerrero Saturday, April 19, 2025 SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — Even though the Vietnamese American Service Center in San Jose has been open for three years, it’s still hard to put it into a…
San Jose opens 1st interim housing site on private land after less than year of construction
The City of San Jose officially opened its first interim housing site on privately owned land and half of the beds are already full. By Dustin Dorsey Thursday, April 24, 2025 SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — The City of San Jose officially opened its first interim housing site on privately owned land and half of the…
Local Organizations
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We need clean land, clean water, clean air, and reparations for all colonized and oppressed peoples on the planet. Black and Indigenous Women, non-binary, trans, and queer folks are the leaders of the movement for food sovereignty and must be centered and uplifted in order to achieve true and absolute liberation.
Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization.
We help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 7 million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.
Black Organizing Project
The Black Organizing Project is a grassroots organization in Oakland working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice
People's Kitchen Collective
People’s Kitchen Collective is a food-centered, Oakland-based political education project offering educational workshops, exhibitions, and community dining events to discuss social justice issues.
East Oakland Collective
The East Oakland Collective (EOC) is a member-based community organizing group invested in serving the communities of deep East Oakland by working towards racial and economic equity. They are also currently collecting money to bail out protesters and bringing meals to those on the front lines of protesting.
OCCUR
OCCUR is a community capacity building organization supporting the economic development and civic inclusion of marginalized communities.
Ella Baker Center
Ella Baker Center is a grassroots organization in Oakland that focuses on shifting resources away from incarceration and punishment toward opportunities.
La Cocina
La Cocina is a nonprofit working to solve problems of equity in business ownership for women, immigrants, and people of color. They are also currently raising money for a COVID-19 relief fund to help business born out of their program.
Mandela Grocery Cooperative
Mandela Grocery Cooperative is a worker-owned grocery store located in West Oakland working to strengthen and diversify the local economy. They source from local entrepreneurs and farmers in California with a focus on black and brown farmers and food makers. Their Karma Jar fund helps people in need purchase food.
Cycles of Change
Oakland-based creates healthier East Bay communities by helping youth and adults gain tools for more environmentally and economically sustainable living through school-based bicycle education, job training, watershed education, and community earn-a-bike programs. By exploring our neighborhoods and beyond on bicycles, we are more connected to the people and the land that sustain us.
Upcoming Events
Earth Day Clean Up 2024
Join Scottsdale Fashion Square, as we team up with Scottsdale Police Department, for an Earth Day clean up of Old Town Scottsdale! Let’s come together to make a positive impact on our environment by beautifying our local community around the center and surrounding areas! Meet at Capital One Cafe at 7am – we will provide…
Race to Cure Sarcoma
The Race to Cure Sarcoma (RTCS) brings together hundreds of members of the community who have been impacted by this disease. Each year, the Sarcoma Foundation of America raises awareness and funds for much-needed research, through RTCS events across the country.
The Boston Dyke March
Since 1995, the Boston Dyke March has remained committed to offering a non-commercial, intersectional, and fundamentally grassroots alternative to Boston’s Pride celebration. We strive to elevate voices marginalized in society and even within the lgbtq+ community.
Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk
Every year suicide claims more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined, and yet suicide prevention doesn’t get anywhere near the funding given to other leading causes of death. It’s up to Walkers like us to make a difference. Together we can change the conversation about mental health and put a stop to this…
11th Annual Get Tested Grab A Bite
We would love for you all to show up for Get Tested Grab A Bite. Just a heads up, it is normally REALLY HOT! Come prepared, LOL! We will have a cooling station for folx that over heat. But, a little information about the event is that we have GTGAB annually. It is a way…
Hood Yoga
This is Yoga for the people! A safe space created for black womxn / black folk to explore beginner Yoga. All classes are 90-minute beginner sessions that include 25 minutes of journaling. Evening sessions are held in a heated room. Bring water, a towel, a journal, and an open mind and heart!
Local Hero Spotlight
Members can nominate a local hero for recognition on their local LoveJustice.com city page!
Anyone and everyone can make an impact, and at LoveJustice we believe that they deserve to be recognized for their good, necessary work!
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