Establishing a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in Oakland has been talked about for decades. But Kim Thompson and fellow members of her “Dream Team” are working to make that long-held vision a reality.
For more than four decades, Carol Scott's photographs sat quietly in boxes, their negatives carefully preserved, until now.
An Oakland retiree responds to rising housing costs, homelessness and isolation by opening her home, helping neighbors and building community.
When you visit Tom Chantler in his Rockridge garage workshop, you’ll see a large workbench surrounded by drawers of tools and supplies.
Ask most people why they live in Rockridge, and you will quickly detect a group of common reasons: wonderful and architecturally interesting housing stock ...
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Welcome to Rockridge Voice, a new media platform for the Rockridge community. We are just getting started, so we decided to ask some of our neighbors... why do you love Rockridge?
Margaret Dorfman’s Rockridge home is chock full of fruits and vegetables—not in her garden (too shady), but in
Doug Yoshida came by his activism by accident….or did he? After practicing emergency medicine at Stanford, Alta Bates and
Growing up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Caroline Stern wanted to be an artist. Life initially took her in a different
As urban planner Jonathan Pacheco Bell argues, planners should not plan from their desks but from within the communities they
Crawling between the plants in my abuela’s garden was always full of surprises because I never knew what I
The Rockridge District Association (RDA) has appointed Devan Gregori Meneses (pictured above) to serve as its first Executive Director to
