Moms 4 Housing: Redefining the Right to a Home in Oakland
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. As the housing crisis intensifies across the Bay Area, an activist group of black mothers called Moms 4 …
Who Is Burning Down Oakland?
Co-published with GEN. After a fire destroyed the only place I could afford to live, I knew it was time to leave for good.
Can a New Kind of Payday Lender Help the Poor?
Co-published with The Nation. Oakland’s Community Check Cashing offers an unusual alternative for the underbanked.
The Telecom Tower Next Door
Co-published with CityLab. A new photo series depicts and questions how ubiquitous telecom infrastructure is in our lives.
What $15 an Hour Looks Like
Co-published with The Nation. Emeryville, California, recently passed the highest city-wide minimum wage in the country. Here’s how workers’ lives changed—and how they didn’t.
From Jail to Farm to Table
Co-published with The New Yorker. A project in Oakland hopes to do something remarkable: build a co-op agricultural network owned and run by the formerly incarcerated.