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Former Oakland football star, charged as an adult in juvenile armed robbery case, to be released

8.18.2017

OAKLAND — In a few weeks, former McClymonds High School football star Dajon Ford, who was 17 when he was charged as an adult for armed robbery and has been awaiting trial for nearly four years, will get to see
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Former Oakland football star charged with robbery seeks second chance

7.12.2017

Proposition 57 removed prosecutors’ sole discretion in charging juveniles as adults and placed that authority in the hands of judges. Ford has a hearing scheduled Sept. 22 before an Alameda County Superior Court judge who will decide whether or not
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New graduates get their day in the sun at UC Santa Cruz

6.19.2017

Nicole Lee (Oakes, ’98), executive director of Urban Peace Movement, a youth development program dedicated to transforming the culture and conditions that lead to urban violence, fired up the Oakes crowd during her commencement remarks. She described her time at
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Toward Love, Healing, Resilience & Alignment: The Inner Work of Social Transformation & Justice

5.12.2017

At their most potent, these practices are inseparable from our work in the world. Rather, they are deeply intertwined. Urban Peace Movement Executive Director Nicole Lee says, “I don’t think of my own ‘practice,’ my own healing, as something entirely
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School suspensions cost communities and unfairly affect minorities, experts say

4.21.2017

“Raise your hand if you’ve ever been suspended,” Dr. Prince White recalled asking the young men in the support group he leads at Urban Peace Movement, an organization that teaches Oakland youth about social justice. Twenty-five hands went up, he
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