The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
The East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture & Commerce
Fania Davis, the sister of famed Black Panther Angela Davis, lived through some of the most turbulent times in our nation’s history. Today, the Oakland resident has found inner peace—and a new passion for helping local youth find nonviolent solutions to conflict.
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At 68, East Bay activist Barbara Lubin is still in the game, fighting to bring food, medical supplies, and more to children and families in war-torn zones through her nonprofit Middle East Children’s Alliance. For decades, she’s also been raising heck at home, scrapping to save Ozzie’s beloved soda fountain in the Elmwood, pressing Berkeley public schools to admit her special needs son, and taking life lessons from rebel poet Allen Ginsberg.
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Hidden in the East Bay hills, the Carmelite nuns of Kensington live at the most secluded monastery in the United States.
A Cal psychologist has a simple prescription for race relations.
Experts say that when caring for an elderly parent who lives far away, the most important thing is to join a support group with people experiencing the same challenges.
Rockridge residents John Bliss and Kim Thompson may live far removed the gritty flats of East and West Oakland. But this philanthropic couple see themselves as one with the citizens of Oakland, particularly those who are struggling financially, and they’re leading a campaign to get their “financially blessed” peers to invest in the community like they have by funding city programs to teach kids how to swim.
Oakland author Meredith Maran accused her father of the ultimate betrayal. Then she un-accused him. In this first-person essay, adapted from her new book, My Lie, she reveals how it all went down.