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...comes to achieving in school, Za'kettha Blaylock knows that even dreaming of success can mean living a nightmare. She would, above all things, like to work hard, go to college and become a doctor. But to many other black 14-year-old girls in her corner of Oakland, these ideas are anathema. The telephone rings in her family's modest apartment, and the anonymous voice murmurs daggers. "We're gonna kill you," the caller says. Za'kettha knows the threat comes from a gang of black girls, one that specializes not in drugs or street fights but in terrorizing...
While some parents filed into lecture halls,Ron and Adrienne Yank of Oakland, California,parents of Veronica A. Yank '93 of Winthrop House,found a less conventional way to keep themselvesbusy yesterday...
Imagine a busy street corner in downtown Oakland. Some bandana-wearing homes are chilling by a bench. A televangelist pleads for money from behind the window of a hardware store. A Red Hot Chili Peppers album is blaring out of a six foot boom box, and the merciless Californian sun is beating down upon the whole scene like a catalyst for a violent reaction...
...CHRISTMAS REVELS. This wonderful mix of classical and traditional music, medieval theater and whatnot else is now staged in seven cities -- Cambridge, Mass.; Hanover, N.H.; New York City; Oakland; Philadelphia; Washington; and Houston. This is not a tour: these are separate productions, each under local control, each a little different. Performance dates differ but range from...
...long ago, I was giving Bharati Mukherjee, a writer from India who now lives in Berkeley, what I call the Ishmael Reed Oakland tour, which lately has also been given to an Australian Aborigine writer, three Czech writers and an Italian television crew, a professor of film from the University of Bologna and the French editor of an African magazine. As we rounded Lake Merritt -- an urban gem endowed with islands that attract migratory waterfowl -- she said she hadn't realized that Oakland is so beautiful. I replied that a lot of us run down this city that the rappers...