Berkeley High senior is Oakland’s new Youth Poet Laureate
Nadia Elbgal, 18, will give voice to her community through poetry and public appearances.
Ricky Rodas is a member of the 2020 graduating class of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and has spent the last two years reporting on immigrant communities in the Bay Area as a reporter for the hyperlocal news sites Oakland North, Mission Local and Richmond Confidential. Rodas, who is Salvadoran American and bilingual, joined The Oaklandside through a partnership with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. Rodas reports on businesses and immigration in Oakland.
Nadia Elbgal, 18, will give voice to her community through poetry and public appearances.
Oakland’s Iu Mien elders have been growing mustard greens, sugar cane stalks, and snap peas at Peralta Hacienda Historical Park since 2003.
Wahpepahâs Kitchen and Red Bay Coffee say more should be done to curtail violence and sex trafficking in the area.
The Oakland Puerto Rican restaurant looks back on an intense first year.
Cafe Gabriela serves up resistance and resilience alongside its menu of salads and sandwiches.
Your favorite restaurant might have a line out the door, but that doesn’t mean it’s not struggling to stay afloat
In addition to transportation, immigration, and housing, mental health services are needed by many fleeing the Taliban.
Lines around the block for cupcakes and a boom year for a flower shop, but a shoe shop for the stars is calling it quits, one of several COVID-19 casualties.
The fund, signed into law by President Biden, will provide billions in relief to qualifying business owners. The application deadline is Monday, May 24.
The owner of Red Door Catering will be sharing a 5,000-square-foot commercial kitchen in West Oakland with other Black-owned food businesses.
City mandated grocery worker hazard pay laws donât cover TJâs Lakeshore location, but Rockridge and Berkeley workers will keep an extra $5 per hour.
Service workers in Oakland are part of a statewide campaign for better working conditions at fast food restaurants.
Oakland’s policy director Warren Logan, who has overseen the outdoor dining program since its inception, speaks about its future.
The DEEP Grocery Co-op was started to bring fresh and healthy food to deep East Oakland, a designated âfood desert.â But their new online grocery service is open to all.
Health inspectors say La Perlaâs owner, Jose Ortiz, needs to fix the kitchen floor. Ortiz says he doesnât have the money to do it.
Oakland grocery workers are getting a substantial hazard pay raise starting immediately.
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