Oakland Tribune By Scott Johnson Oakland Tribune This is an excerpt from reporter Scott Johnson’s blog, which focuses on the impact of violence and trauma on the community.
Read More...NEW YORK TIMES By SHOSHANA WALTER JAN. 7, 2012 Five-year-old Gabriel Martinez Jr. died Dec. 30, shot as he played under a streetlight near his father’s taco truck on an East Oakland street corner.
Read More...NEW YORK TIMES By SHOSHANA WALTER DEC. 17, 2011 Gunshots cracked the air on a sunny morning as two men led a group of high school teachers on a tour of a violent area of West Oakland.
Read More...OAKLAND NORTH By Amina Waheed Posted November 29, 2011 11:07 am Over 22 years ago, Deane Calhoun sat in a meeting that would forever change her life and the lives of thousands of Oakland teens.
Read More...By Marianne Williams Marianne Williams, a Teens on Target Youth Leader, wrote this poem for Youth ALIVE! She performed it at Youth ALIVE!
Read More...Oakland Tribune By Scott Johnson Oakland Tribune November 2, 2011 OAKLAND – Daniel Wilkerson has a hard time relating to most of what he hears coming from the protesters at Occupy Oakland.
Read More...East Bay gunshot victim a success story for Sacramento intervention program Sacramento Bee July 2011 By Kim Minugh - kminugh@sacbee.com
Read More...NEED Magazine Excerpt from Issue #5, November 2008 Homicide is the leading cause of death for young people in Oakland.
Read More...EAST BAY EXPRESS June 4, 2008 By Matthew Green On a Sunday afternoon in June of 2006, a young man we’ll call Michael Robinson was shot six times on a street in his West Oakland neighborhood.
Read More...OAKLAND NORTH December 2010 FIVE TEENAGERS talk about living with violence and trying to do something about it. Ivan Brand says no one has the right to pull a gun on him.
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