Last November, Dominique Walker had a radical plan: Occupy a vacant house in her hometown to protest the fact that there are far more empty houses in Oakland, California than those in need of a home. Though she had the support of the community, Wedgewood...
“A year went by so fast," Ansar El Muhammad says, pausing to reflect on the anniversary of his daughter's murder. While his tone was steady, I could hear the heaviness of grief in his voice. "Things tend to get pushed back in the shadows and forgotten...
The real Oscar Grant was a young man who loved God, who treasured his family and who wanted to make a difference in the community and in his family's life....
Monday morning I received a text telling me to be careful. Something about bad energy. I made a mental note to ask if another planet was in retrograde for the fifty-eleventh time. But I was quickly snapped out of my levity when I read the...