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Stories from Jamaica and Beyond
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Opal Palmer Adisa has spent a lifetime telling stories. She connects with the griot tradition, an African tradition where poets and musicians act as keepers of history, to involve audiences in her story telling.
Adisa, who now lives in Oakland, is a
literary critic, renowned storyteller, author of thirteen books, an...
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The Power of Small on Display
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Charlotte Schulz’s series of large charcoal drawings entitled An insufficiency in our screens
are strange and unnerving works of art that quickly draw the viewer
into a world of puzzling objects left discarded in a somber world of
billowing darkness and piercing light. These are at once stark,
literal, black and wh...
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OPD Wants to Widen Virtual Eyes
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The Oakland Police Department is advancing a plan to convert an empty
jail in the Eastmont police station into a high-tech command center
where specialists will monitor video and audio from surveillance
equipment scattered throughout the city....
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