Article by Youth Outlook.
Last updated at Mon, 17 Jan at 11:19am.

by Thomas Taper , Bobby Jackson and Sean Shavers , content producers at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia.

Blog entry by Melanie Archer.
Last updated at Tue, 11 Jan at 9:42am.

Let me tell you about the place where I grew up, the way it was back in the 1970s.

Article by Amy Gahran.
Last updated at Sat, 2 Jan at 3:46pm.

Last night I spent my first New Year's Eve in Oakland at home with friends in the Temescal neighborhood. Just before midnight, and for quite a while afterward, I heard what I could have sworn were gunshots. A lot of them. From a lot of different directions. But I figured, nah, it couldn't really be.