Glitch in the System
District’s million-dollar expenditures on IT firm contracts raise more questions than answers Peralta students and faculty have struggled for years with creaky and decidedly user-unfriendly information...
View ArticleWHAT NEXT?
As Oakland joins cities across the country in protest, the nation asks itself: What Next? For over 24 hours, from Nov. 8 to Nov. 9, the Bay Area burned with rage over the election of Donald Trump to...
View ArticleMerritt Tobacco-less Club receives $20k national grant
Merritt College achieved another victory in the war on smoking, winning a $20,000 grant from the American Cancer Society and CVS Health Foundation’s Tobacco Free Generation Campus Initiative (TFGCI), a...
View ArticleDefining American
Pulitzer Prize-winning undocumented journalist visits BCC to talk the morality of citizenship Jose Antonio Vargas spoke to a rapt audience at Berkeley City College on Nov. 15 and challenged them to...
View ArticleA glimmer of hope for part-time faculty
Governor Jerry Brown signed two bills into law Sept. 30 that will bring a measure of job security to part-time faculty at California’s community colleges. The bills are AB 1690, carried by former...
View ArticleMoving It Forward
Latest Laney College teach-in empowers students to fight for progress at home and at school The latest event in the Laney College’s Teach-In Series took place in the Student Center on Nov. 16....
View ArticleDANCE OF VICTORY
Annual Laney College Pow Wow coincides with hard-fought win for Native activists The American Indian Child Resource Center hosted the 17th annual Pow Wow in the Laney College gymnasium on Dec. 3-4,...
View ArticleGHOST SHIP FIRE: BENEFITS CALENDAR
Elbo Room show proceeds benefit fire victims as artists around Bay rally in solidarity “Pass it around like church,” announced Natalie Ribbons of touring act Tele Novella announced as she held up a box...
View ArticleIn memoriam: Six Laney students victims of Ghost Ship fire
Nicole “Denalda” Renae Siegrist: laney college student “The choir is reeling over the loss,” said Laney Choir Director John Reager. “She had real spirit. She was looking forward to singing the Faure...
View ArticleIN MOURNING
Community gathers to honor 36 lost in Oakland fire About 1,500 Oaklanders gathered at the Lake Merritt pergola on Monday evening, Dec. 5, carrying electric candles, LED poi, and glowsticks. The event...
View ArticleLaney seeks donations to support Open Door Mission
Homelessness, poverty, income inequality, hunger and gentrification are not new problems for Oaklanders, or to students at Laney College. Thus, for many years the school has spearheaded a food drive to...
View ArticleBUILDING THE FUTURE
Award-winning Laney Carpentry Department receives $80k grant for housing initiative The Laney College Carpentry Department won an $80,000 grant from the city of Oakland to build two Tiny House...
View ArticleWelcome Week at Laney opens with resource fair
Many students entering the Student Center on Jan. 24 were surprised to find a variety of tables dotted with leaflets and clad in bright tablecloths. The booths advertised a multitude of services...
View ArticleTHE NEXT PRESIDENT OF LANEY COLLEGE?
Interested in who the next president of Laney College may be? Students, staff, and faculty had the opportunity, on Jan. 30, to meet the three shortlisted candidates for college president, and ask...
View ArticleIn first person: one Oakland woman’s story of her and her countrywomen’s...
My bedroom, living room, and kitchen windows overlook Madison St. in Oakland, very close to the start of the city’s Women’s March. The morning of the March, a wave of women in pink “pussy hats” rolled...
View ArticleEvents calendar
Merritt College presents The First Annual New Year Celebration Feb. 2, 1:30 p.m. in the Newton/Seale Student Lounge; will include Asian Cuisine and cultural performances Laney Black Student Union...
View ArticleRESIST
As Trump turns the White House upside down, Bay Area residents join the country in shows of resistance The tumultuous first week of Donald Trump’s presidency forged solidarity between what might seem...
View ArticleFrom sea to shining sea, women gather to loudly declare: RESIST
In response to Trump, millions make way to Washington, D.C. for historic women’s march An estimated half million people gathered in Washington, D.C. for the Women’s March on Washington on Jan. 21, to...
View ArticleBlack history month events calendar
Healing Our Souls: The Journey of Black Identity Merritt College African American Studies Department will host a panel discussion on the topic of Black Identity moderated by Professor Jason Seals in...
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