Beyond the berets and rifles: Preserving the full truth of the Black Panther Party involves archiving an invaluable cache of materials.

Javier Arango can still feel the bullet lodged against his spine. It paralyzed him instantly and is a reminder of the war he’s managed to survive. But this battle wasn’t waged in Kandahar or ...

Gentrification isn’t just the physical remaking of a neighborhood. A key part of the process is the renaming of spaces to make them more appealing for affluent newcomers. Very often this results ...

Oakland Firefighters Say Their Department Is So Badly Managed, Ghost Ship Warehouse Wasn’t Even In Its Inspection Database ...

In November 2011, a five-alarm fire blazed through the Sequoia Apartment building on the northwest corner of Haste Street and Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. The city’s meanest inferno since 1991 ...

When Hatice Yildiz started her bakery, the man sent from Turkey to help install a dough sheeter couldn’t believe she would be the one operating it. Making baklava, the syrupy pastry with layers ...

The troublesome history of Oakland's most prominent Black Muslims -- and the political establishment that protects them.

Skateboard wheels grind down a wooden half pipe at all hours of the day in Josh Matlock‘s living room. He lives in a North Oakland warehouse with four other guys and a rotating cast of squatters ...

Oakland is once again in an uproar over a fatal police shooting of an African-American man. In 2007, it was Gary King Jr. In 2009, it was Oscar Grant. In 2010, it was Derrick Jones. In 2011, it ...

One giant fraud spawns ten thousand smaller frauds — that was one of the major lessons of the foreclosure crisis. A relatively small number of mortgage lenders issued millions of toxic home ...

Samier Ayesh was shot to death outside the East Oakland Dollar & More convenience store on June 10, 2010. Earlier that evening, Samier Ayesh and his brothers Adham, Awad, and Samey were getting ...

Alonzo Carter pulled up to McClymonds High School in his burgundy and peanut-butter-colored drop-top ’87 Corvette. As he stepped out, wearing black knee-high leather boots, a leather jacket, and ...