Throughout her life, Jean Yonemura Wing fought for social justice.  She devoted much of her career to the transformation of the Oakland Public Schools so that it would deliver on its promise to make educational equity, excellence, and empowerment real…

By James C. Earl-Rockefeller, III The Kingmakers Of Oakland Production Team Begin First Round of Recording “Portraits Of A King” Series The City of Snellville, nestled in Gwinnett County, Georgia and 32 miles east of Atlanta, boasts a dominant African-American…

[Southern CA. April 12, 2022] – Kingmakers of Oakland’s TFI College Access program went on a Southern California College tour in collaboration with the Social Justice Learning Institute’s (SJLI) TFI-LA  cohort.  We traveled to 5 schools with 75 Black and…

In a mass-media-driven world, Black and Brown people, our youth especially, are continuously  bombarded with negative and stereotypical ideas of what it means to be Black. Whether through popular music, television, or social media, “Blackness,” in the sense of popular…

Uplifting and Empowering Music for Black Youth [Oakland, CA. March, 2022] Kingmakers of Oakland (KOO), an organization dedicated to improving life and learning outcomes for Black students; today is releasing their third studio album: Black Joy. As artists, educators, and…