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OAKLAND — The debate over proposed gang injunctions in the Fruitvale neighborhood has never lacked for spirit, but it recently got a new dash of color. A mural was painted on the side of a shop ...
A mural by Raymundo "Zala" Nevel (and restored by his daughter Xochitl Guerrero) is seen on La Clinica de la Raza at 16th and Fruitvale avenues in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 8: A woman takes photos of the Oscar Grant III Way during the mural unveiling and street name rededication in honor of Oscar Grant outside the Fruitvale BART station in ...
A mural honoring Oscar Grant III, the 22-year-old African American man fatally shot by BART police in 2009, was unveiled Saturday at the Fruitvale BART Station in Oakland. Latest.
To promote the upcoming movie “Fruitvale Station,” about the 2009 fatal shooting of Oakland’s Oscar Grant, the Weinstein Co. commissioned three murals in Los Angeles, New York and San ...
‘Calming’ murals grace Oakland intersections. Public art at a crossroads. By Adam Brinklow Dec 18, 2018, 10:51am PST ... hands joined across the bay in Fruitvale, ...
Santos teaches art at Lazear Charter Academy in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood and is working with students and East Oakland youth to help paint the murals. “I want kids to be inspired like I was ...
Oakland is calling on BART to name an unnamed street at the Fruitvale Station after Oscar Grant 10 years after he was shot to death there by a BART police officer.
For one Oakland business, National Night Out was a chance to remember a restaurant owner who was killed in front of his 11-year-old son, last May.
Earlier this week, Oakland artist Norman Chuck (known to his fans as “Vogue”) announced that he’d completed a new mural dedicated to the victims of the Ghost Ship fire last December. The new ...
Oakland, Cali - The streets of Oakland's Fruitvale district were filled with Day of the Dead Halloween celebrations. Dia de Los Muertos made a return this year after being cancelled last year due ...