Kory Gibson The essence of higher education is the ability to thrive for it. Once the vision is perceived the action of pursuit is the next step. It takes patience and perseverance to endure the work ethics ahead, for that reason you must want to be highly educated. The importance behind higher education is the [...]
During the Spring Break, the PUSH Excel organization took five EOYDC college bound high school students to visit historically black colleges and universities to inform and expose them to institutions of higher education. The purpose of the tour is to promote increased college attendance amongst minority youth through a mode of early preparation. Students traveled [...]
Other than visiting his native Mexico, Jose Mendoza had never traveled outside of California. So Mendoza figured he was being punk’d when Regina Jackson, the executive director of the East Oakland Youth Development Center, gauged his interest in an all-expenses paid trip to New York. He would stay in his first hotel, in Times Square. [...]
NEW YORK — The best thing that happened to Oakland this year was the re-signing of All-Pro cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, and I don’t mean it was the best thing for the Raiders … though it probably was. Nope, I mean it was the best thing for Oakland, and I can call on 10 teenagers to prove it. They’re from the [...]
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WOMEN’S DIVISION CHAMPIONS 1st Place: Lady Panthers (Moraga) 2nd Place: Lady Dragons (Oakland) 3rd Place: Warriors (San Jose) WOMEN’S AWARDS Most Valuable Player: Danielle Mauldin (Lady Panthers) Women’s All Tournament Team: Mia Cara (Pirates), Jessica Taylor (Pirates), Alexis Bostick (Dragons) Ariel Bostick (Dragons), Randi Jackson (Dragons), Mikayla Lyes (Dragon), Cody Simms (Lady Panthers) April Bernal [...]
During the 2009 college tour , students visited universities in New York. Six students from EOYDC and 4 from Berkeley Musicians Program met with administration personnel from Julliard, Columbia University, The New School and NYU. In addition to college campuses, the students were in the on camera audiences of Good Morning America and 106th and [...]
May 1, 2009 No. 455 A week before the NFL Draft prospects came to New York City, 10 students from Oakland made a cross-country trip of a lifetime to the Big Apple with Raiders Pro Bowl cornerback NNAMDI ASOMUGHA. Asomugha funded and organized the trip – complete with a seven-page itinerary! – to give the [...]
Charlotte Jones Essay Hello I am Charlotte Jones and I am currently a junior at Saint Mary’s High in Berkeley. During my spring break I attended the Rainbow Push Jesse Jackson H.B.C.U. tour 2009 through the East Oakland Youth Development Center (EOYDC). I attended the tour with Jamal, Corey, and Morgan. Our tour began on [...]
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