The biennial event is one of the city’s biggest cross-generational community building experiences, especially for black alumni.
Delency Parham
Delency Parham is a graduate of the University of Idaho where he played football and majored in journalism. He graduated from Berkeley High in 2010, which is where he discovered his passion for writing. He lives in Berkeley.
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Fresh out of high school, Berkeley’s Dante Ryan has music on his mind
Just one year out of Berkeley High School, Dante Ryan has embarked on a promising musical career.
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From food stand to Abu Dhabi and Dubai food festivals: The journey of Endless Summer Sweets
People in the Middle East will get a taste of carnival food when Endless Summer Sweets presents its funnel cakes at two festivals.
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Berkeley native Cierra Ford fatally shot in Georgia
A young man from Berkeley is trying to raise money to bring home his little sister’s body for burial after she was killed Friday in Georgia where she was attending college. The day after Thanksgiving, around 3 a.m., 25-year-old Cierra Ford was fatally shot in her home in Sandy Springs, a suburb north of Atlanta, according to news […]
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Council asks DA to drop criminal charges tied to eviction
The Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday night to ask for criminal charges to be dropped against a 28-year-old black woman who ran into trouble with the law earlier this year while protesting her eviction from the West Berkeley home that had been in her family since 1965. Councilman Kriss Worthington put forward the item to ask the Alameda County district attorney’s office to drop charges […]
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One to watch: Singer SydneyNycole
Berkeley native Sydney Reeves, who goes by her stage name, SydneyNycole, talks about her new project, recent deals and what it’s like to be a Black woman in the music industry. “When people look at me, they don’t expect for me to make the type of music that I do,” Reeves told Berkeleyside in a recent […]
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Berkeley music collective honors slain rapper ‘AyeGee’
Neighborhood Heavy artists, from left to right, Alex Goodwin Jr., Rayuan “Ray Ski” Lee and John Winslow. Photo: Neighborhood Heavy [Editor’s Note: Berkeleyside freelancer Delency Parham knew Alex Goodwin Jr. This story includes some of Parham’s own reflections, as a young Black man himself, on the loss.] Berkeley-based music collective Neighborhood Heavy honored slain group member Alex […]
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In loving memory of Terrence McCrary Jr., 1993-2016
Friends and family gathered around the East Bay on Sunday to celebrate the life of Terrence McCrary Jr. (known to many as Terrence Mack). Mack, who was 22 years young, was born and raised in Berkeley. Also known as TMack, Sweet T and Lil BadBadBad, behind he leaves a cohort of friends and family who are […]
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2 BHS grads killed in separate Oakland shootings
Update, Aug. 16: A fundraiser to help the family of Terrence McCrary Jr. has already raised more than $12,000. Learn more. A fundraiser has also been launched to help pay for funeral costs for Craig Fletcher-Cooks, and a memorial is being planned. Learn more. Update, Aug. 15: Both young men killed Sunday outside a downtown Oakland art gallery […]
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Berkeley students can get free school supplies Sunday
As the summer winds down and kids prepare to head back to school, some Berkeley residents are pooling resources to ensure that students have the necessary supplies for success. The first of a number of backpack giveaways will take place this weekend, and those involved are hopeful their efforts can make a difference. DeMaria Travillian, […]
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Black Student Union and UC Berkeley agree to establish on-campus Black resource center
After 15 months of negotiations, UC Berkeley’s Black Student Union (BSU) and Chancellor Nicholas Dirks reached an agreement to establish a new Black resource center on campus that will be named after Fannie Lou Hamer, the famed voting and civil rights activist. The BSU, which worked with the Afrikan Black Coalition, hopes that the new […]
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Berkeley celebrates civil-rights leader William Rumford
The 50-year resident of South Berkeley was the first African American elected to a state public office in Northern California.