"I think the project has great merit, and I will be supporting it," said Council member Lucas Ramirez - a sentiment shared by the rest of the council at the May 27 meeting.
"We were under the radar for so long, people were getting evicted and everything," said Pat Cochran, an organizer for the tenants at Thomas Paine Square Apartments.
Authorities are investigating the death of inmate Longeno Jones, who was found unresponsive in his cell at Mule Creek State Prison on May 21. His cellmate, a convicted killer, is the prime suspect in this suspected homicide.
Enslaved people traveling the Underground Railroad communicated in code through quilts, using patterns to convey messages while risking death if they spoke about their escape.
The Oakland History Center at the Oakland Public Library will host professor and historian Caitlin Keliiaa to discuss her book, Refusing Settler Domesticity, analyzing Native American lives in the 1910s and 1920s.