D. Scot Miller

Oakland journalist reports threats after sharing public records—'Doomloop Dispatch' podcaster says he’s been targeted by serial harasser.

The East Bay Express: Best of the East Bay 2023 - Introduction titled, “Simply the Best,” in homage to the late great Tina Turner.

There’s more than just cheesecake at Charles Ferrier’s new bakery Charles Ferrier opened the first location of his Oakland bakery, Crumble & Whisk, in December. He also considered closing the shop shortly thereafter. Starting in 2013, Ferrier built up his cheesecake business at several different Bay Area farmers’ markets. Along with wholesale orders, he was […]

Joshua Chase and Oakanna stand out when the smoke clears The Oakanna cannabis store bears quite a few distinctions. For one, it’s the first cannabis dispensary approved to be on Oakland’s busy Lakeshore Avenue promenade. Oakanna owner Joshua Chase, who describes himself as the CEO/janitor, was co-owner of other spots, but understands this distinction. “I’ve […]

In August of 2019, EBX sat down with Oakland LGBTQ Center CEO Joe Hawkins and vice president Dawn Edwards, to celebrate two years of a place that almost didn’t happen. Hawkins recalled: “About six years ago, co-founder and current board president Jeff Myers and I participated in the Hands Around Th…

2022 has been, shall we say, an intense year so far. Even as we continue to endure a virus that has wavered some, while we witness the horrifying details of an attempted coup to overthrow the will of people unfolding before us every week, and women’s reproductive rights are in peril all over the cou…

Full disclosure: Christopher Burch is my brother, comrade, friend and inspiration. We’ve known each other for more than a handful of years, and still, every time we speak, I find even more ways we’re connected. Burch’s work is infused with the literary Black radical tradition and touches of what Ishmael Reed dubbed a Neo-Hoodoo aesthetic, […]

“Some have called Ish a ‘trickster,’ and Ralph Ellison—in a drunken rant at a gala in New York City when he was in his 30s—once called him a ‘criminal and a con-man,’ but few call this poet, author, publisher, Columbus Foundation president, musician, playwright, founder of the American Book Awards, screen-writer and cartoonist a Renaissance man,” D. Scot Miller writes.

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“Welfare queen,” “thug,” “inner-city”: Since the Nixon administration, coded appeals to white supremacy have been part of the Republican playbook. These “gentle slurs” have come to be known as “dog whistles,” or terms that, according to Wikipedia, “use language which appears normal to the majority, but which communicate specific things to intended audiences. They are […]