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Filipino Hip-Hop Activists take a stand in Oakland

fatimasugapong
December 23, 2014
Arts & Culture, Identity
There is a large Filipino community in the Bay Area that organizes and fights for better workers' rights and educating youth of color. There are...

Kearny Street Workshop’s Dumpling Wars II: The Hungry Games

Oakland Local Editorial Team
April 24, 2014
Arts & Culture, Food, Identity
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Let’s be honest. What could be better than sampling half a dozen different kinds of dumplings for a good cause? Kearny Street Workshop’s Dumpling...

Oakulture: OMCA highlights “lowbrow” culture with two new exhibits

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April 23, 2014
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Vinyl is back. The analog music format, supplanted by the digital technology of compact discs, and then MP3s, has been making an improbable comeback....

This Weekend in the YaY! Area thru April 20

Miz Chris
April 16, 2014
Arts & Culture
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, no matter what neighborhood you happen to be in, because you live in the Bay Area.  This weekend is gonna...

This Weekend in the YaY! Area thru Apr 6th

Miz Chris
April 2, 2014
Arts & Culture
Daaaaaaang, all this rain has been hella needed but I am ready to go back to our Bay Area sunshiney days aren't you?  Well, we have a few coming up...

This Weekend in the YaY! Area thru Mar 30

Miz Chris
March 26, 2014
Arts & Culture
This weekend is off and poppin' with Sheila E. droppin' those beats for a three night stint at Yoshi's in Oakland.  If you have never had the...

This weekend in the YaY! Area through Nov. 10

Miz Chris
November 7, 2013
Arts & Culture
Oh Bay Area, the nights are starting earlier, the chill is in the air, sweaters, scarves and quirky coats are about to be de riguer.  This weekend...

Why I’m Sending My Child to an Underperforming Public School (Community Voices)

Oakland Local Editorial Team
October 30, 2013
Education
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by J.T. Moyer I live in a middle-class neighborhood (Temescal) in Oakland, California. I’m lucky enough to live very near two elementary...
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Minh Dang on fighting modern-day slavery in Bay Area and worldwide

Bonnie Chan
June 3, 2013
Identity, Justice, News
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Just two weeks before walking at her graduation for a master's degree in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley, Minh Dang was in the nation's capital to be...
Mia Mingus

An Interview with Mia Mingus, Oakland Champion of Change, on transformative justice

Bonnie Chan
May 27, 2013
Identity, Justice, News
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Mia Mingus describes herself as a queer physically disabled woman of color transracial/transnational adoptee -- an identity that only begins to...
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