The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights will be hosting its 4th Annual Ella Awards on October 14, 2010 at the PM The Scottish Rite Center (1520 Lakeside Drive Oakland, CA 94612.)  6:00 PM - 9:00pm. The famed social justice institution will be honoring three Bay Area innovators.

Following last week's verdict - when a jury in Los Angeles found former BART Policeman Johannes Mehserle guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter in the murder of 22-year old Oscar Grant - the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights recognized the importance of holding Mehserle, as a representative of police systems and police

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights will graduate its inaugural class of Heal the Streets fellows