Oakland

are in the bay area for a run against the (15-0) defending NBA Champion Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena. This evening the Lakers will take the 20 minute ride on I-80 to Oakland. Oakland has 50 distinct neighborhoods, the Lakers could explore the sights and sounds of Lake Merritt, Fruitvale village, East Oakland, Oakland Hills also have a meal at the Brown Sugar Kitchen, Southern Caf, Miss Ollies or just enjoy some ice cream at Fenton’s Creamery. These two teams are reminiscent of two…

Stop and frisk is truly an complicated development in the world of criminal justice. It allows for officers to stop people based solely off how they look, or act socially; and search them in New York city. While new york has shown a extravagant decrease in crime as of late, there is no concrete evidence that states that the stop and frisk laws are the reason. I personally do not believe that stop and frisk laws are Constitutional. It is very difficult for me to justify how this is legal under…

among college students. Fortunately, only 12.8% of surveyees said that would not be more inclined to improve their diet given a nutrition guide. This piece of data suggests that a guide would certainly be useful to a vast majority of students in Oakland…

Moneyball is a modern film about the Oakland Athletics. Billy Beane, the general manager, was upset because his team lost to the New York Yankees in a 2001 postseason game. The Oakland Athletics were losing three of their star players and Beane was concerned for the 2002 season. Beane was excited for his prospect, a Yale graduate, but then ended up hiring an inexperienced assistant general manager. The transition of assistant general manager is not smooth. Oakland scouts do not like Brand’s…

Growing up my life was full of ups and downs. I remember when I was little. The rush of going to the doctor's office and getting check ups to see how my growth is going, if my weight was in the right direction. My favorite part of going to the doctor’s office was getting shots. I basically grew up wanting to be a nurse, the crave of making people who are sick; better. My sophomore year, I tore my meniscus and partial MCL playing soccer. When I went in to get surgery I remember the rush I got and…

been taught by my parents to respect and value the wide variety of cultures and beliefs. A major factor in how my parents instilled the idea of respect for others in me was by regularly attending multicultural programs in San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, California. Participating in cultural and social events at these programs has given me the opportunity to mingle with individuals of different backgrounds who each bring a different perspective to conversations and environment.…

Food Shift/OUSD Green Gloves Food Recovery and Donation Program Last year, Food Shift in partnership with Oakland Unified School District started a project in order to reduce food waste in Oakland. The project lasted about 12 months. The decision started based on the statistics from 2002 USDA report that school cafeterias waste food, and that waste sums to around $600 million each year. Kelly ErnstFriedman was the director of this project and kindly explained the pilot project May 2013 – June…

• A school board in Oakland, California voted to recognize Ebonics as a second language. This caused an uproar towards the African American communities who felt insulted by the board by comparing Ebonics to another language like Spanish or Chinese. Linguistic anthropologist, Marcyelina Morgan asserts that the African American community thinks that just cause this African American community speaks a variation of English, it doesn’t make them at an intellectual disadvantage and they shouldn’t be…

In 1966, the Black Panther Party was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale to prevent police brutality against African Americans in Oakland, California. Around this time, after the landmark United States Supreme Court ruled the Brown v. Board of Education case, which stated that the segregation of schools were unconstitutional, African Americans continued to face poverty and economic inequality. They helplessly strived for community improvement and equal human rights and tried to find an…

Homophobia is an issue that exists in Oakland schools today where students that are are part of the LGBT identities get bullied and harassed by their peers due to the their sexual identity. This leads students to think of school as an unsafe environment as they take in the harsh words spoken to them seriously. In my survey taken by 188 Oakland Tech students, 50.3% of the survey respondents have seen people getting bullied and harassed by their peers based on their sexual identity at school. As…