Jun. 1—The California Hotel in Oakland, one of the East Bay's most recognizable landmarks, has seen better days. Most know the historic building in West Oakland by its enormous rooftop sign ...

About 10 years since the grand reopening of the historic California Hotel in Oakland as very-low-income housing, tenants say it's in rough condition and mismanaged.

Click here to watch "Don't Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It" is a collaboration between Tonika Lewis Johnson and Maria Krysan. SEE ALSO: 70 years after Brown v.

Have you been told to stay away from the South or West sides of Chicago? That was the question posed to local residents, and responses poured in about times they were told “don’t go.” Artist and ...

Tonika Lewis Johnson premiered her new documentary, unBlocked Englewood, in front of a packed crowd at Kennedy King College on Wednesday.

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Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It Tonika Lewis Johnson and Maria Krysan. Polity, $25 (232p) ISBN 978-1-5095-6444-6 ...

Tonika Henry was a participant in the fall of 2021, before graduating from Barnard in 2022. Her cohort’s policy proposal focused on the creation of a community center for underserved communities that ...

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Black communities use ‘restorative mapping’ as a way to tell stories Chicago’s Folded Map Project and Black Social Culture Map are examples of how Black communities use map-making to affirm ...

Tonika Lewis Johnson stands in front of her project “The Folded Map” in 2019. Lewis Johnson, an Englewood native, is now working on the “unBlocked Englewood” program.

Article Breakdown: There are currently 34 Hidden Villages in the Naruto Universe that have appeared in the anime and manga series over the years. Some of them are destroyed, like Uzushiogakure, the ...