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Inside San Francisco’s new COVID-compatible outdoor Barber Collective

The buzz of clippers mingles with the sounds of upbeat chatter and chill music wafting from the corner of 11th and Bryant streets in San Francisco. Just beyond the Highway 101 overpass, the clouds are starting to break for some afternoon sun over the former SoMa StrEat Food Park, which reopened Sept. 2 as the Barber Collective, the city’s first COVID-compatible outdoor barbershop.

Read full article on the San Francisco Chronicle


Local Artists Beautify Community Fridges as COVID-19 Continues

Since the start of the pandemic, the Bay Area has banded together in a multitude of ways to support the most critical needs of our community. Cheetah, the first restaurant supply app, is launching a food giving movement that will provide more food access as COVID continues.

Read full article on Oakland Voices

 
 

Oakland teens are learning to code and ‘building brotherhood’ with The Hidden Genius Project: The nonprofit worked with 120 young Black men from Oakland, Richmond, and Los Angeles this summer on community-focused tech projects.

Over 500 people gathered virtually on Thursday last week to celebrate the accomplishments of 120 young Black men—including 46 from Oakland— who completed a 15-month intensive tech immersion program with The Hidden Genius Project.

Read full article on The Oaklandside


 

NAACP’s March on Washington will honor the past and uplift the voices of a new civil rights

The NAACP’s Virtual March on Washington marks the 57th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his legendary I Have a Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

The two-day event starting August 27, 2020 is broken up into three sections: The Call, The March and The Charge.

Read full article on The Crisis Magazine

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