The initiative is aimed at strengthening the region’s ecosystem of Black community organizers in the wake of a pandemic that has exposed deep systemic inequities in the Bay Area and across the country. General operating grants will support 18 Black-led organizations in the Bay Area with a focus...
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Greetings, I hope you and your loved ones are doing well as we enter into the fall season. I am pleased to announce that I’ve entered the race for Mayor of Oakland! The mayoral election is set for November 8, 2022. For those of you who know me, you understand my passion for the city that I live in and h...
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Alameda County!! COVID relief funding from the American Rescue Plan can be a game changer for our community. We need our Board of Supervisors (BOS) to ensure we get the resources we so desperately need. The @aarc_alameda is seeking $100 million for the Black community. Please join us by voicing your...
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African American Response Circle Recovery Plan Our coalition writes today to demand an investment of $100 million in Alameda County’s Black community as an integral component of COVID-“recovery”: the African American Response Circle’s Black Community Recovery Plan (Plan). We note that while...
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BLACK RAGE IS JUSTIFIED “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time.” James Baldwin “We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe” Franz Fanon We embrace the rage. The knee on George Floyd’s neck symbolizes the historic wei...
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