From election night in Oakland to opening day at Golden Gate Fields, hear and see our multimedia stories here.
by Nick Burns, Dara Kerr, Shilanda Woolridge & Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi/BERKELEY & OAKLAND Nov 5 2008
Berkeley and Oakland know how to party! When the media named Barack Obama the winner of the Presidential election on Tuesday night, the streets in both cities erupted in spontaneous celebration. East Bay West Online caught the festivities on film.
by Japhet Weeks & Yulia Weeks/BERKELEY Nov 5 2008
Ethel Collins, an 80-year-old Berkeley resident, experienced racism first hand as a young woman in Michigan. She never dreamt she’d see the day when a black man was elected president of the United States. But that day has finally come.
by Tasneem Paghdiwala & Ali Winston Nov 4 2008
From the Oakland Tribune to the NYT, EBWOL captured the front pages of newspapers calling Obama’s victory.
by Nick Burns/West Berkeley Nov 4 2008
Proponents and opponents of Proposition 8 took their get-out-the-vote efforts to the streets — or freeway — today. A dozen volunteers set up camp on a pedestrian overpass near University Avenue in West Berkeley, hanging banners and waving signs as commuters drove along highway 80, a major traffic corridor connecting Sacramento and San Francisco.
by Japhet Weeks/WEST OAKLAND Nov 4 2008
It’s an historic evening and residents of West Oakland have a lot to say about it. Watch the following video for some insight into voters’ emotions and reactions.
by Huda Ahmed & Japhet Weeks / photos by Yulia Weeks Nov 3 2008
This past weekend, just a few days before the presidential elections came to a long-awaited conclusion, religious leaders in Berkeley and Oakland opened their different sacred texts to the same page.
On Sunday morning at The Way Christian Center, a black pentecostal church on University Avenue in Berkeley, the lively service mixed religious and political rhetoric with singing, clapping and foot stomping.
by Huda Ahmed/ EAST OAKLAND Nov 2 2008
The Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival is a traditional and spiritual ceremony for many Latinos to celebrate the deceased.
Hundreds of East Bay residents, a majority of them Latino, flowed to Fruitvale Village in East Oakland last weekend to enjoy delicious ethnic food, refreshments, music, face painting and games.
By Japhet Weeks/OAKLAND Nov 2 2008
Voters who went to the Alameda County registrar’s office yesterday to avoid what is expected to be a very crowded day at the polls next Tuesday found out that this year even early voters have to wait in line.
By Clayton Trosclair & Dara Kerr/WEST OAKLAND Oct 28 2008
In the days before the Nov. 4 election, some West Oakland residents announce their pick for president by wearing and selling homemade Barack Obama T-shirts and merchandise.
by Tasneem Paghdiwala & Clayton Trosclair/OAKLAND Oct 28 2008
The East Bay Church of Religious Science, a non-denominational church in Oakland, competed in a national gospel choir competition on Oct. 10. Watch the choir perform before 15,000 people in the Oracle Arena.
by Elise Craig/BERKELEY Oct 16 2008
Berkeley’s 17th annual Powwow and Indian Market celebrated ancestors and Native culture of all tribes with dances, native foods and trade. Vendors selling fry bread tacos, woven rugs, t-shirts, and silver jewelry ringed the large grass circle that held the dancers. Several hundred people—both native and non-native—gathered in Martin Luther King Park to attend the event.
by Elise Craig, Tasneem Paghdiwala, Japhet Weeks & Yulia Weeks/BERKELEY Oct 19 2008
September 17 was opening day at Golden Gate Fields. East Bay West Online captured the sights and sounds from the Bay Area’s last race track.
by Huda Ahmed and Tasneem Paghdiwala/WEST BERKELEY Oct 9 2008
On September 30, millions of Muslims around the world celebrated the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. Here in West Berkeley, local Muslims gathered at Pakistani and Middle Eastern restaurants along University Avenue after their sunset prayers to have their first meal of the day, called iftar.
