By Raul Zavaleta The Hayward City Hall was packed. You could overhear people asking questions in different languages as you made your way around the room to pick up the citizenship application. Volunteers at this citizenship workshop manned stations on the first and...
by Eric Steckel My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word. – Psalm 119:28… There are times when the city of Oakland elicits strong, contradictory emotions. Last night’s world premiere of Wounded Places was a very special celebration of...
On February 28th, Davon Ellis, a 14 year old freshman at Oakland Technical High School, was shot and killed as he walked with some friends in the 3300 block of Brookdale Avenue. Some might look at the situation in Oakland, where in the past five years 41 youths under...
He who gives a child a treat makes joybells ring on Heaven’s street…” This quote from poet William Blake was part of the inspiration for the annual Christmas Joybells Program, now in its 28th year of operation. Dorothy Walsh Buckley was the person who started Joybells...
