Oakland News SF Bay Area By Zennie62Media Inc & Zennie Abraham
Oakland News SF Bay Area By Zennie62Media Inc & Zennie Abraham
OUSD Mourns Loss of Michael Morgan, Oakland Symphony Music Director and Long-Time Supporter of Oakland Unified Music Students Oakland – For the last 30 years, there has been no greater advocate for music education in our schools than The Oakland Symphony Maestro Michael Morgan. The Music Education Community in our schools celebrates his life and […]
Oakland – About 30 OUSD seniors finally got what they wanted about six weeks after they had originally planned. They received that symbol of graduation, the diploma book, which they each received in a brief ceremony at Castlemont High School after having finished five weeks of credit recovery summer school, to complete the requirements for […]
Oakland Architect and Developer David Allen (who’s a member of the Oakland Skyline High School Class of 1980) and is building the proposed Oakland Museum of Jazz & Art) has presented a list of five SF Bay Area Jazz Songs he says everyone should hear. According to SelectFivePodcasts.com: Oakland native David Allen is an architectural […]
HBO Documentary About OUSD’s Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Fest is Nominated for NAACP Image Award; Public Voting is Open Through Friday VOTE: https://naacpimageawards.net/2021-nominees/ Oakland – The Emmy-award winning HBO documentary, We Are The Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest, is up for another major award, and the driving force behind it […]
KPIX Channel 5 Sports Anchor Vernon Glenn Gives Shout-Out To Zennie62Media CEO Zennie Abraham For The Most Influential African American / Black Sports Executives In The SF Bay Area List As we close Black History Month 2021, one question remains. Of all African American / Black sports executives in the San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose […]
Donald Trump Jr. Said Ted Cruz Could Do Nothing About Texas Winter Storm – See Charlie Wilson’s War From YouTube Channel: February 19, 2021 at 04:19AM ONN – Donald Trump Jr. Said Ted Cruz Could Do Nothing About Texas Winter Storm – See Charlie Wilson’s War Donald Trump Jr. and Ben Shapiro would have you […]
McClymonds High School Serves as Backdrop for City of Oakland’s Swearing in Ceremony for new Police Chief, LeRonne Armstrong, McClymonds Alumnus Oakland, CA — A sunny Monday morning at McClymonds High School looked very different than it has for the past eleven months. A crowd had gathered for a special event in which the school […]
OUSD and the Oakland Athletic League Open School Fields to Sports Conditioning for Middle and High School Student/Athletes Oakland – Almost eleven months after all OUSD schools closed to students, cutting off in-person access to the classroom and to sports, the District and the Oakland Athletic League (OAL) have restarted sports conditioning. It is not […]
Watching Oakland African American NFL Expansion Team Project Listening Meeting For February 3, 2021 From YouTube Channel: February 3, 2021 at 09:32PM ONN – Watching Oakland African American NFL Expansion Team Project Listening Meeting For February 3, 2021 Went into the meeting on the community listening presentation for the Proposed Coliseum Sports and Entertainment Development […]
Cloris Leachman Died At 94: The Oakland Story In Skyline High School Class Of 80’s Liesje Howard From YouTube Channel: January 28, 2021 at 05:41AM ONN – Cloris Leachman Died At 94: The Oakland Story In Skyline High School Class Of 80’s Liesje Howard As it happens, the great actress Cloris Leachman is connected to […]
Tom Hanks, Skyline High School Oakland Class of 74, Host Of President Biden’s Inauguration Party ONN – Tom Hanks, Skyline High School Oakland Class of 74, Host Of President Biden’s Inauguration Party – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Fittingly, Tom Hanks is the host for President Biden’s Concert Celebration. Tom is a 1974 graduate of my […]
OUSD Students and Staff Featured in New Documentary Homeroom Heading to 2021 Sundance Film Festival This Month Oakland – Starting in 2019, a documentary film crew worked in OUSD watching the educational process and seeing the lives of students, along with staff and families. The intent was to show urban education through the eyes of […]
The Oakland Unified School District sent this press release regarding possible Public Safety Power Shutoff or power shutoffs to Zennie62Media: Dear Oakland Community, We have learned that there is expected to be a major weather event in the coming days that will likely prompt PG&E to issue a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) once again. […]
KTVU archives: 10th anniversary of the ’91 Oakland Hills fire From YouTube Channel: October 20, 2020 at 08:22PM ONN – KTVU Archives: The 1991 Oakland Hills Fire The video reported “Today marks 29 years since the deadly Oakland Hills fire. Here’s a look back at KTVU coverage of the 10th anniversary,” but for me, since […]
On Wednesday, Scott McKibben, now the former Executive Director of The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority and currently President Of The Oakland Panthers of The Indoor Football League, accepted a misdemeanor plea-bargain deal in the case where he was accused of violating a government law prohibiting self-dealing. The problem is, the case and the […]
Joe Morgan RIP: Lived In Oakland Down From Skyline High School, Played Tennis With Reggie Jackson ONN – Joe Morgan RIP: Lived In Oakland Down From Skyline High School, Played Tennis With Reggie Jackson Joe Morgan RIP: Lived In Oakland Down From Skyline High School, Played Tennis With Reggie Jackson Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland […]
Oaklandside’s Attack On Derreck Johnson In The Oakland City Council Race Was Racist ONN – Oaklandside’s Attack On Derreck Johnson In The Oakland City Council Race Was Racist The Oaklandside, a new online publication by the person who owns Berkeleyside and that has a $3 million grant from Google, owes Derreck Johnson, a candidate in […]
Phil Gates, Oakland Skyline High Alum, Talks Eddie Van Halen And Phil Gates Band 3 PM EST, 10-8-2020 From YouTube Channel: October 6, 2020 at 08:05PM ONN – Phil Gates, Oakland Skyline High Alum, Talks Eddie Van Halen And Phil Gates Band 3 PM EST, 10-8-2020 Phil and I go, as they say, “way back”, […]
Oakland – The annual celebration for excellence in television entertainment, the 72nd Emmy Awards show on ABC on Sunday night, September 20, was a huge night for Oakland Unified School District, and people with roots here. The District can add three Emmys to the collection of awards amassed throughout the years by alumni, staff, former […]
Oakland – Four weeks into the new year, and several schools across Oakland Unified School District are in mourning because they have recently lost valued members of their communities. The OUSD District has lost a total of five young people who were getting ready to graduate or had recently graduated. Some had come back to […]
Derreck Johnson Oakland City Council At-Large 2020 Candidate Interview From YouTube Channel: September 8, 2020 at 05:52PM ONN – Derreck Johnson Oakland City Council At-Large 2020 Candidate Interview – UPDATE While not my first choice for the Oakland City Council At-Large Seat occupied by Rebecca Kaplan (whom I endorsed) Derreck Johnson is a new face […]
The Top Shelf Sports Edition “The OAL” Episode ONE: Oakland High and Skyline High From YouTube Channel: August 2, 2020 at 03:19PM ONN – CSBtv Studio: The Top Shelf Sports Edition “The OAL” Episode ONE: Oakland High, Skyline High The Top Shelf Sports Edition “The OAL” Episode ONE: Oakland High and Skyline High We are […]
SPAAT, Oakland Athletic League and OUSD Announce Winners of Annual Oakland ESPY Awards, Including Middle School Student-Athletes of the Year, the All-Academic Team and High School Student-Athletes of the Year Oakland, CA – In a ceremony Wednesday evening in which young people collectively received more than $20,000 in scholarships, SPAAT, the Student Program for Academic […]
Barbara Leslie, Yui Hay Lee are Vice Presidents; Martinez returns for second term Oakland – Alameda County labor leader Andreas Cluver has been elected President of the Port of Oakland’s governing Board. The seven-member Board of Port Commissioners chose Mr. Cluver at a special meeting this week. Oakland Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Barbara […]
Tom Hanks Talks About His Recovery From Coronavirus And New Film ‘Greyhound’ | TODAY ONN – Tom Hanks Of Oakland’s Skyline High School, On COVID-19 Recovery, New Film ‘Greyhound’ On TODAY Tom was on TODAY this morning, and the NBC show posted this on YouTube: Oscar winner Tom Hanks joins TODAY to talk about how […]
Skyline High, Oakland Graduation 2020 ONN – Skyline High School Oakland 2020 Commencement: Full Graduation Video With Tom Hanks Here’s the full Skyline High School Oakland 2020 Commencement: Full Graduation Video With Tom Hanks. Stay tuned. Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland News Now: this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest […]
Tom Hanks Commencement Speech To Skyline High School Class Of 2020, Oakland, CA ONN – Tom Hanks | Tom Hanks 2020 Commencement Speech To Skyline High School, Oakland, CA Transcript of Tom Hanks 2020 Commencement Speech To Skyline High School, Oakland, CA, courtesy of YouTube via Mr. Hanks and Oakland Unified School District: Hello […]
Within Days of Announcing $12.5 Million Campaign to Close the Digital Divide, OUSD and City of Oakland Meet the Goal with Final $700,000 Donation from Zynga Founder, Mark Pincus, as Next Fundraising Phase Ramps Up Oakland, CA – On Wednesday, May 20, OUSD and the City of Oakland are announcing that their six-day old goal […]
Jack Dorsey, Twitter Founder And CEO Sends Huge Donation to OUSD and City of Oakland to Help Close Digital Divide Less Than 24-Hours After Press Conference Oakland, CA – Less than 24 hours after OUSD, the City of Oakland, and partner organizations held a news conference to announce an ambitious plan to close the digital […]
City of Oakland And OUSD Have Plan To Close Digital Divide – Press Conference ONN – City of Oakland And OUSD Have Plan To Close Digital Divide – Press Conference Leading the virtual press conference were: Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland Kyla Johnson-Trammell, Superintendent of OUSD Jessica Ramos, 11th Grade Student, Skyline High School Ali […]
Mayor Of Oakland Economic Recovery Council Shows She Doesn’t Get The Immediacy Of Our Problem ONN – Mayor Of Oakland Economic Recovery Council Shows She Doesn’t Get The Immediacy Of Our Problem The Mayor of Oakland sent a press release via her assistantpress release via her assistant that I still can’t get over. It […]
Harvard-Bound Skyline High Senior Eleanor Wikstrom Makes History, Becoming First Ever CIF Scholar-Athlete of the Year from Oakland Oakland, CA — Eleanor Wikstrom from Skyline High School has a unique set of skills. She studies as hard as anyone, pulling a 4.0 GPA that has her heading to Harvard University in the fall. She is […]
Oakland Schools News: OUSD’s Youth Beat Students Create Music Video With Simple But Powerful Message for Protecting Oneself from COVID-19 Oakland, CA – With schools remaining closed for the rest of this academic year, students have had to be very creative in completing their assignments, especially group projects. Some of OUSD’s most creative students take […]
Big Country Kitchen, Denica’s Real Food Kitchen, Mama’s Royal Cafe: Check, Please! Bay Area reviews ONN – Oakland’s Mama’s Royal Cafe Reviewed By KQED’s Check, Please! Bay Area Mama’s Royal Cafe, at 4012 Broadway in Oakland, has been an institution known for its omlettes since I was at Skyline High School from 1978 to 1980. […]
An update on Ernest Russell “Rusty” Simms, our friend from Oakland’s Skyline High School and Cal-Berkeley, who was hit by a car, or as it was described “was involved in a pedestrian-vehicle accident walking in Berkeley, CA.” The last report, the first one, was that Rusty was in critical condition. This is what Patty Lee […]
