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Could tearing up an Oakland freeway undo decades of racial injustice?
Plans to remove I-980 have energized urbanists and environmentalists. But longtime residents fear it could be a new phase of gentrification.
We work with City departments to create a city where our diversity is maintained, racial disparities have been eliminated and racial equity has been achieved.
Plans to remove I-980 have energized urbanists and environmentalists. But longtime residents fear it could be a new phase of gentrification.
The African American Museum and Library at Oakland invites you to a Closing Reception for the exhibition Black American Strip Quilts and their West African Textile Roots Join AAMLO and your neighbors at the closing reception for an exhibition of outstanding fiber art created by specialists on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean—master craftsmen from West Africa and master artists in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland (AAQGO). At this gathering, we will honor the memory of Mrs. Ann Seals Robinson, the late president of AAQGO.
Edutainment for Equity is hosting a ceremony at the center of our city to collectively grieve, to imagine a future, to acknowledge both our pain and our power. We are calling all of the artists and spiritualists, all of the activists and healers, producers and conveners to join us in Frank Ogawa Plaza at noon to make art, demand more from our city, and collectively plead with any who listen that art is for everybody.
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Director, Department of Race and Equity
Darlene has more than 10 years of experience implementing systemic change and increasing racial equity in city government. She was on the ground level in developing the Race and Social Justice Initiative in the City of Seattle’s Office for Civil Rights.
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