“Getting shot was one of the best things that happened”
Life after an Oakland assassination attempt
Arts & Culture
“It’s in the DNA of hip-hop”
Tracing the local roots of a musical movement
“This strange monument”
The story behind one of Oakland’s most prominent abandoned buildings
“The freest time of my life”
Richard Pryor’s transformative East Bay experience
“Monsters rising out of the mud”
From industrial wasteland to renegade art gallery
“What about the underdog?”
Dorothea Lange never stopped fighting for freedom
Bruce Lee’s Oakland years
From a legendary fight to a new philosophy
From “one-hit wonder” to “legend”
30 years later, a singer gets to re-live his dream
Before “1984” & “Hunger Games”
How the first modern dystopian novel was born in Oakland sweatshops
“You were a goddess to me”
Oakland's first "celebrity" librarian