by Tower co-editor Michelle Snider In a time when wealthy parents can spend huge sums to get their unqualified children into universities, community college students are struggling for the basic means...

Article and Photos by Lucky Thomas/Laney Tower Staff Writer The scene at E.12th homeless camp on early Thursday morning, Feb. 7, as Oakland city workers start the long process of clearing...

The Village residents force City to halt plan to evict them, remove structures by Robert Hinton A tiny home sits in The Village, a homeless encampment in North Oakland, behind a sign advocating for...

Students, faculty, and citizens show support for the Oakland’s dispossessed Michelle Snider, Editor-in-Chief Nino Parker, Peter Brown, Roger Porter and Evetta Williams speak to the crowd at the...

Long-standing battle highlighted by dispute between victim and city official Robert Hinton, Laney Tower Staff Writer Joe DeVries (left) and Nino Parker (far right) square off at Lake Merritt estuary...

Geremy Lowe, Staff Writer Profile: Prentiss Mayo (Political Science Major), photo by Geremy LowePrentiss Mayo is a political science major at Laney who has suffered the grueling reality of homelessness...

Peter Brown is a Laney sculpture student and retired instructor. Here he is speaking at the Poor People’s Campaign Teach-in held at the Laney Student Center on Oct. 31.by Peter Brown With over...

Two major Bay Area community college newspapers — City College of San Francisco’s The Guardsman, and the Peralta Colleges’ Laney Tower — have joined together to compare and contrast different...

By Brian Howey Broken glass scrapes underfoot, glinting in the muddy lamppost light as David Hernandez walks toward a cluster of tumble-down tents huddled under a MacArthur Freeway overpass. It...

Bay Area’s BOSS battles widespread displacement Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) was founded in 1971 in Berkeley to help deal with the people forced into the streets by the closing...

The Bay Area is no stranger to homelessness. Many people suffering and in need of services have a hard time getting help to improve their situations. To help remedy the situation a Resource Fair will...