The Appeal: Carroll Fife is Fighting to Make Oakland Safer and More Equitable for Everyone
In her run for City Council, Fife pushes back on the institutional barriers to Black people that come from a history of oppression.
Carroll Fife, a longtime activist in Oakland, California, is running for City Council on a broad platform promising to address injustice and racial inequities across the city. It’s part of what she describes as a long overdue program of dismantling systems of racial oppression that have lingered in America for decades since the civil rights movement.
“My perspective of the U.S. is this country has never atoned for the original sin of having people enslaved and used as property,” said Fife, executive director of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Oakland. “Everything we’re experiencing today is a result of not addressing that.”