People's Park

On Friday morning, the “chess club,” a well-known community space on Telegraph Avenue, was cleared by the block’s property owner, with BPD on standby, following numerous trespassing allegations.

A reemerging video from July 2, 2017, appears to show an officer use racist language against a Black man near People’s Park.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1307, previously passed unanimously in the state senate and assembly, Thursday.

On Wednesday the California Supreme Court decided to hear UC Berkeley’s appeal of their case for development of People’s Park.

People’s Park celebrated its 54th anniversary on Sunday with a celebration at the park. 

Allison Lu founded The Period Project at Berkeley, or TPP, in 2018 as she realized the potential the UC Berkeley community has to address period poverty.

An unidentified female adult was found dead Tuesday in a tent at People’s Park, according to UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof.

Michael Delacour, co-founder of People’s Park, died Thursday at the age of 85. 

As a freshman living in Unit Two last year, I cherished my dorm room view. I no longer live in the dorms, but I can imagine that the view is quite similar, with one major exception: that canopy of trees, the foliage over People’s Park, no longer exists.

Berkeley’s “so-called chess club” has quickly become an essential community pillar, where people from all walks of life, socioeconomic status, race and age, can come together and bond over a game of chess.