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Graduating While Quarantined: Armond Hervey

Armond Hervey was raised in the Alive & Free family. His mom, Malorie Branch, and aunt, Evangela Brewster, are both college graduate alumni and we are happy to have him under our wing. He is on his way to Grambling State University after graduating from Hercules High School and we very excited to watch him…

Shervon Hunter-Johnson was a the first girl who joined the Omega Boys Club. Her male friends were in it and she wasn’t going to be left out. She did the work and was accepted to Delaware State University in 1988 on a basketball scholarship. Little did she know, her basketball accomplishments would become so noteworthy…

Have you ever wondered what our collegians are working on as they are away at college? Jaime Esquivel shared with us his current research paper on “Effects and Solutions on the Human Body After Long-Duration Space Flights” featured in the McNair Research Journal at San Jose State University. The McNair Research Journal SJSU features the work of SJSU…

On December 3, 2018, Alive & Free participated with our partner SafeReturn to celebrate the successful completion of the 1st West County Collective Impact Institute. There were 13 participants. Formally incarnated, and looking to not only rebuild their lives and family, but to also make a positive impact within the community in which they call home.…

By Natasha Zouves SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — As a teacher in San Francisco, Dr. Joseph Marshall, Jr. says he was tired of seeing his bright young students end up on drugs, in prison or dead. So he decided to do something about it, one person at a time. Now, 226 college graduates later, we’re proud to…

VIDEO REPORT: Omega Boys Club celebrates 30 years of transforming lives of young people SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A local organization is celebrating 30 years of transforming lives of young people in the Bay Area. Thursday night’s event includes an auction to continue funding college tuition for current students of the program. KRON4’s Ali Reid…

Huge thanks to the Golden State Warriors Foundation, PG&E, and Good Tidings Foundation for revitalizing our basketball court! Photo: Dogpatch Neighborhood Revitalization Day Court Unveiling: I.M. Scott School Court The Dogpatch community enjoyed a wonderful afternoon on the bright blue court with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, District Supervisor Mahlia Cohen, Assemblyman David Chiu, Goldenn State…

Newly released to Netflix, the documentary 13th is a critical and timely film discussing the 13th Amendment, which states that ‘neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.’ When 1 in 3 black men and increasingly more women see the inside…

This past summer, our collegian, Eric Welch, visited Ecuador to study abroad as he works on his political science major from Florida A & M University. Eric learned accounting skills at Centro de Americano, an institution which teaches English. “Some employees spoke English and some didn’t, so we worked together to communicate. They treated me with…