Jocelyn Wiener

The tardy bell at East Oakland's Media Academy had just rung, its scream echoing down the pale yellow halls and bouncing off broken orange lockers. Outside...

Waiman Lam didn't use to attend many meetings at her children's school. Like most of the Chinese immigrant parents at Oakland's Cleveland Elementary, she felt excluded....

Residents of Oakland's heavily Latino Fruitvale neighborhood are staying home from work, avoiding trips to the grocery store, and making alternative arrangements to pick...

If a group of local community activists has its way, every Oakland resident, including the undocumented, would be eligible for a city-issued ID card...

The first time he was jumped, four years ago, Pedro Reyes had been collecting cans and bottles to cash in at the recycling center....