Defending Democracy
Laney College hosts panel of immigrant rights experts to offer resources Laney College’s Teach-In Series is gaining traction and relevancy post-inauguration. The Forum was filled almost to capacity on...
View ArticleCounting the Uncounted
Biennial homeless census documents West Oakland’s displaced Broken glass scrapes underfoot, glinting in the muddy lamppost light as David Hernandez walks toward a cluster of tumble-down tents huddled...
View ArticleRetracing Routes
Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson visits Merritt College to talk Black history “History is not optional. It’s life giving,” author Isabel Wilkerson said during her Black History Month keynote...
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 short- listed candidates for college president, and ask...
View ArticleLaney welcomes Tammeil Gilkerson
Tammeil Gilkerson is Laney College’s next new president. The Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees approved her nomination on Feb. 21 after Chancellor Jowel L. Laguerre submitted her...
View ArticleProtecting Oakland’s Own
Protest brings together East Bay residents in support of immigrant communities Local organizations in support of immigration rights gathered in protest on Tuesday, Feb. 21, to demand that Alameda...
View ArticleREAL TALK
Economist Richard Wolff takes on the factual and the fake at BCC lecture on Trump’s economy “Do you feel as though you’ve been ripped off?” Professor of Economics Richard D. Wolff asked that question...
View ArticleEvents Calendar Mar. 3-Mar. 15 2017
Know Your Rights Panel and Discussion Undocumented Community Resource Center and the Sociology Club present a panel and discussion led by Bay Area lawyers and activists on rights pertaining to...
View ArticleLIBROS Y LIBERTAD
Laney student leader Andrea Calfuquier talks literature and liberation One classmate describes her as “a force of nature.” This is her third semester, and Andrea Calfuquir has already emerged as one of...
View ArticleFresh and free food, courtesy of Laney’s Kevin Welch
Hungry crowds have lined up, signed in and gotten ready to enjoy a free meal, gratis du jour, every Monday since the current semester began. Their benefactor is Kevin Welch, a culinary arts student,...
View ArticleTWEETING IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
As citizens of the internet, many of us like to believe that we understand the risks of social media. However, in a society where a business mogul can be elected president by tweeting 140 characters a...
View ArticleA day without a woman
East Bay women take to the streets in show of resistance against inequality “We are the power.” Met with roars of approval from a crowd of hundreds clad in red shirts and pink hats, Shannon Malloy’s...
View ArticleBATHROOMS FOR ALL GENDERS
Transgender and gender non-binary students now have a place to “go,” as it were. As of March 1, all public, single-occupancy bathrooms in California are considered gender-neutral. In response to a...
View ArticleTOWER WATCH
In previous issues of the Laney Tower, our staff has photographed and documented the various maintenance and infrastructural issues that Laney College has faced. We did this in each issue, briefly but...
View ArticleJapanese internment explored in ‘Blossoms and Thorns’
Just before Pearl Harbor was attacked, Flora Ninomiya’s family had established a cut-flower business in Richmond. As historian Howard Zinn put it, “One Congressman [Mississippi Democrat] John Rankin]...
View ArticleConnect
Laney club bands together for building competition Laney’s Architecture Club was granted $8,000 from the student government Feb. 23 to attend an annual design competition April 7-9 at Cal Poly in San...
View ArticleActivist delivers diagnosis on American healthcare
“If you don’t know where your next meal is coming from,” Dante Allen said, “it can play a critical role in your mental and physical being.” Allen is the senior communications officer at the Calif....
View ArticleA NEW CHAPTER
Tammeil Gilkerson optimistic about becoming next president of Laney College In her application essay for college,Tammeil Gilkerson described herself as a book that is often judged by its cover....
View Article‘DEPLORABLE’
Neglected Oakland building burns down, killing four and displacing dozens The charred skeleton of an apartment building stands smoldering and empty as emergency crews look on, waiting idly in the mist...
View ArticlePOTHOLE PROBLEMS
Merritt parking lot plagued by potholes, trash, graffiti Unlike Merritt College’s other parking lots, there are no signs indicating where the B parking lot is. Despite the lot’s beautiful view of the...
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