Up In Smoke: Cannabis, Crime and Creating Equity

• KQED
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• Mar 17, 2022

A storm’s been brewing over legal cannabis in Oakland. And Chaney Turner thinks it has the potential to wash away small business owners– especially People of Color.

Big Love: A New Kind of Tough Love

• KQED
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• Feb 18, 2022

Krea Gomez-Jones says we can’t fully understand what our young folks are experiencing nowadays: maturing in the middle of a pandemic, friends dying from Fentanyl, not to mention things like trying to get their first apartment while housing costs soar. For Krea, that acknowledgment gives rise to a compassion that extends into the community and her […]

Cat Brooks Awarded Unrestricted $250,000 Grant for 3 Years

• Oakland Post
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• Feb 10, 2022

These funds will be used to build alternatives to public safety that don’t rely on the violence of the carceral state but rather invest in our humanity and prevention strategies that stop “crime” from happening in the first place, to develop art pieces that tell our stories for our eyes, ears and souls, to interrogate […]

An Education While Incarcerated

• The New Yorker
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• Dec 17, 2021

What Eddy Zheng taught himself—and me—when he was in prison. Eddy built relationships with gangsters and politicians, then turned to philanthropy.