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
Hunger Game
The Houston Food Bank’s Hunger Game is a competition in which groups of all sizes compete against each other to provide food for better lives within our community. Groups compete to raise the most meals by donating time, food, and funds. There will be two awards. The Overall Award will recognize the group who generates…
Breast health awareness 2k walk
Milwaukee VA’s Women’s Health invites Veterans, caregivers and employees to walk a 2k for breast health awareness. Join us at Lake Wheeler pavilion at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Join us at Lake Wheeler pavilion at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. This is a self-paced, outdoor event. Suggest weather appropriate attire…
UW Public Lectures: The Disabled Gaze: Rethinking the Past, Remaking the Future
In this talk, Dr. Jaipreet Virdi asks us to consider how being disabled changes the ways people view the world and the things they create. Through these perspectives, she invites alternative approaches for remaking crip worlds, one in which disabled people, and the disabled gaze, are centered first and foremost. Jaipreet Virdi is a scholar…
I’m Your Neighbor: Real Change’s 29th Anniversary Celebration
For 29 years, Real Change has been a leader in providing jobs and anti-poverty advocacy for unhoused and low-income people. Their journalism speaks to the issues that directly affect those with lived experience and challenges mainstream media’s harmful narrative of poverty as something to be criminalized or feared. Join them – for delicious food, live…
2023 State of the Arts Summit
Featuring a keynote address from Snehal Desai, Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group, this year’s summit will address recurring economic and social barriers and encourage bold collaborative approaches to revitalize and reimagine the creative economy.
The Bullitt Lectures in American History presents Dr. Blair LM Kelley: “The Roots of the Black Working Class”
Dr. Kelley illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America through a stunning narrative centered on her forebears. A tide of commentary has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores…
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