Posts Tagged ‘Oakland’
Monday, November 14th, 2011
At 12:34 I called home. I went to set my alarm on my phone. I saw a missed call. 510. Home. I called back. Only to find out that the little bear I baby-sat passed away. I assumed, car accident, drive by…… Only to learn that he took his life. I am so fucked off [...]
Tags: 12:34 am, Oakland
Posted in Oakland, Oakland Haunts Me, Quickems | No Comments »
Monday, February 14th, 2011
On Saturday, I met #Aquemini. I was posted up, waiting for someone, doing me. He then spoke, and asked if I was a professor. I had just come from writing the midterm and reading so I had a bag of books next to my chair. I responded no, I am a teacher. I asked him [...]
Tags: #blackgirlsarefromthefuture, Aquemini, My Biggie Wars, Oakland, vulnerableyfearless
Posted in For Colored Girls Who Considered Homicide, Race Class Gender, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Image courtesy Faith in Action. I just received an email about a digital farm network in Dallas, and I thought, this is interesting. I often have conversations with @afrolicious and @tomphilpott about how to use technology to bridge the gap between farmers and people who buy food. There is a lot of money being made [...]
Tags: Brooklyn, Food, Oakland, Social Justice
Posted in Brooklyn Bodega, Creative Capitalism, East Oaland, Race Class Gender, Rafi Kam, Uncategorized | 17 Comments »
Sunday, September 12th, 2010
I am so Glad my mother is alive today. Some shit went down in Oakland that I can’t get into and I think that much of the subtext of distress/anger I been feeling this week has to do with the fact that it is only by God’s grace that a bullet ain’t strike her. That [...]
Tags: Oakland, Social Justice, Violence
Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Photo Courtesy of Thomas Hawk @ Now Public (Young African American man, hand cuffed in police car, January 2009 after Oscar Grant Murder Protest in Oakland, I wish I knew his name.) Amadou. Sean. Lovell. Oscar. Aiyana. Oftentimes, when it comes to personal violence and race and structural violence and race, I turn to other [...]
Tags: Amadou. Sean. Lovell. Oscar. Aiyana, East Oakland Survivor, Oakland, Oscar Grant, Police, Police Brutality
Posted in Quickems, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 1st, 2008
I spoke to my momma yesterday and apparently because of theslate of robberies in Oakland, the police have posted up outsideof one of my favorite restaurants, Mommas Royal Cafe.This place is amazing. Farm fresh eggs for avacado, tomatoand crab omelette’s, fresh salsa and Peerless coffee. Living in Oaklandthis past year, I have spent many a [...]
Tags: James Baldwin, Oakland
Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Dude. One of our Freeways Melted.__________________ The Warriors beat the MAVs. “Silly @ssed class mate gone ask me last night, while we were in the lounge watching the game (me briefly on study break) are you a warriors fan? I respond, dead up, “Im from Oakland”. Like. N*gga. Don’t talk to me dude. Then he [...]
Tags: Barron "Delish" Davis, Oakland
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