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The Understory team gather for their daily shared meal at their newly relaunched worker-owned restaurant Understory in Oakland’s Fruitvale District on May 2, 2025. Credit: Florence Middleton for East ...
Finally, at 59, a Place of Her Own A filmmaker in Oakland, Calif., had always lived with her family, her ex-husband, son or roommates. A friend helped her find her own place when she needed it most.
Fruitvale Station isn't just a transit stop anymore. It's now a street gallery boasting murals by Oakland-based artists Senay “Refa One” Alkebulan, Cece Carpio, Jet Martinez, and Favianna ...
Credit: Ricky Rodas The Center for ArtEsteem, founded in 1989, works with West Oakland schools to create murals. The center is behind the Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project. This Saturday, the ...
A mural at 17th Street and Telegraph Avenue in downtown Oakland memorializes Oscar Grant in 2010. Before he could take a publicly visible stance of the stature he hoped to, Charley still had to help ...
If you’ve been near lower High Street in Oakland over the past few weeks, you may have noticed something beautiful taking shape: a large, colorful mural featuring Oakland’s Souls of Mischief. The ...
The group hopes to have the mural completed within the next two weeks. Jessica Gallegos, 20, from 67 Sueños, an organization that supports undocumented youth, works on a mural at 36th Avenue and ...
It’s not coincidental that they launched Eat. Learn. Play. in 2019, when, after 47 seasons in Oakland, the Warriors decamped across the bay to far more affluent and less diverse San Francisco.
Warriors player Juan Toscano-Anderson and Oakland Unified School District Chief Systems and Services Officer Preston Thomas were in attendance for the court and schoolyard reveal ceremony.
Family, friends, neighbors and community leaders held a vigil at Fruitvale Station to celebrate the life of Oscar Grant, 13 years after he was shot and killed by BART police officer, Johannes ...
The restaurant opens Saturday, November 13 in Oakland's Fruitvale Village, adjacent to the Fruitvale BART station. "It feels amazing," she told ABC7 News Race & Culture Reporter Julian Glover.