His life began in Texas, but he was ambitious and moved to California ... Walter Hood is a Black landscape architect who runs Hood Design, an Oakland firm that creates public art.

When the Covid-19 pandemic laid bare racial, health and economic disparities in cities across the United States, city officials in Oakland, California, knew they had to do something. More than two ...

Hood's artwork was commissioned in accordance with Oakland municipal codes that require public art ... that we’ll be here for another 100 years to serve the East Bay and California.” ...

Carolyn Johnson remembers her East Oakland childhood with both nostalgia and sorrow. There were the bustling small businesses and public parks she often went to, but the neighborhood was also ...

Amid a surge in crime in Oakland, California, police have advised residents ... especially in predominately Black neighborhoods. “African Americans are disproportionately hit the hardest by ...