Oakland

HUD requires communities to send out volunteers to tally homeless individuals one by one, often undercounting the number of people experiencing homelessness.

How the People's Kitchen Collective is preserving cultural memory through free meals.

Sorell Raino-Tsui helps connect Oakland's muralists with customers who can pay them fairly for their work. But what if he's helping hasten gentrification?

Community trauma remains a major issue in marginalized communities. But there's still little research to show how police cause mental-health issues—or what can be done to lessen the communal anguish.

Across the country, there's a growing movement for economic empowerment through legalization.

ICE officials blasted Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for alerting people of the raids ahead of time.

New protocols in schools across the country are reassuring their students in the face of a newly weaponized immigration policy.

An inside look at what it's like when austerity measures lead to direct cuts in your city's emergency services.