WE are R3

The R3 Collaborative

A one-of-a-kind collaborative reparative justice experience for Black Oakland. 

Photography by Amir Clark
@amirclarkfotos

REMEMBERING

RESISTING

RECLAIMING

Our mission:

Oakland’s Black legacy is powerful, but systemic injustice has threatened its survival. The R3 Collaborative is a movement to reclaim what’s ours—our stories, our spaces, and our future.

Through art, activism, and community action, we are resisting displacement, preserving history, and building a thriving Black Oakland.

Join us in shaping a city where Black culture is not only protected, but prosperous.

Photography by Malcolm Wallace
@malcolmwallaceimages

• 2025 community activations •

R3 Collaborative At Reparations, Power, Healing Convention

May 16th 2025 • 8am-4pm • Oakland Marriott City Center 1001 Broadway Oakland, CA

Malcolm X Jazz Festival : Art Installation

May 17th 2025 • 11am-7pm • San Antonio Park, 1701 E 19th St, Oakland, CA

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Juneteenth AR.T Hack

June 2025 • Co-hosted by Black Terminus AR

Oakland Black History Walking Tour

Fall 2025

2024 community activations:

Tupac Day

Juneteenth AR.T Hack

Akoma Market

East Oakland BBQ Arts Activism

Join us

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• collaborative partners •

RESISTANCE • CREATIVITY • COMMUNITY-BUILDING

The R3 Collaborative is powered by a coalition of Oakland-based Black cultural institutions committed to protecting, preserving, and uplifting Black communities through art, activism, and spatial justice. Each partner brings a legacy of resistance, creativity, and community-building to this movement.

THANK YOU

THANK YOU

Big thanks to our sponsor:

Belonging In Oakland: A Just City Cultural Fund

A partnership of the city of Oakland's Cultural Affairs Division, Akonadi Foundation, and East Bay Community Foundation

• FAQs •

  • REMEMBERING

    The work of establishing a Justice Oakland starts with recognizing and remembering the oppressive systems of Urban Renewal and War on Drugs that adversely impacted the Black population of Oakland.

    RESISTING

    Our practice of remembering & resisting are interconnected. The act of remembering seeds the conscious awakening to resistance and the act of resisting stems from the desire to respond to past/present wrongs that have and are being experienced. 

    RECLAIMING

    Follow our creative collaborators as they engage and active Oakland in various ways and always with community.

  • The focus is on East Oakland, between 80th and 90th Street, which is the biggest corridor of Black business and home ownership in Oakland.

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