It all started in 2000 when my family and I migrated to America. It was our first time here. My dad had made on and off travel to make money and send it back home to us in Yemen. The plane ride was the worst experience I ever experienced as an adolescent, but knew it would all be worth it as we got one hour closer to reaching the American dream.
My new neighbors aren’t all that bad. We actually have more in common than I thought.
In celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, several young people were honored in the Youth In Action Awards ceremony, an annual event put on by the Oakland Mayor’s Commission on Persons with Disabilities.
Youth Radio poet and artist Kyle Lamberson talks about the unnatural elements of his surroundings, and how he feels more at home in a simple, primal environment.
Listen to Shyra Gums talk about Oakland, in an audio collage featured in the Oakland Museum of California.
Dear Oakland, I lived here all my life and I know you weren’t always like this. That’s why I wonder…
I feel like there is some truth to the fact that music influences how people behave in my neighborhood.
I grew up in the west. They call it the Lower Bottoms. Everybody in my neighborhood would always tell me,…
When I get on the bus my face says it all: Don’t talk to me, and ew, everybody is gross.…
