Tag Archives: barbara becnel

Men and Women of Purpose draw Richmond leaders to open house event

By: Robert Rogers | May 21, 2012 – 9:46 am

More than 120 people crowded into the parking lot of the Neighborhood House of North Richmond around noon Friday for music and food. They also...

Goodbye to you, Fred Jackson

By: Robert Rogers | September 16, 2011 – 5:06 pm

Nearly 400 friends, family, dignitaries and well-wishers turned out for the midday service, which was a medley of love and music and anecdotes that all...

Part 7: North Richmond’s troubled environmental history

By: Robert Rogers | August 3, 2011 – 9:59 am

From the corner of Filbert Street and Chesley Avenue, the unofficial center of North Richmond, a person gets the full sensory onslaught that the community...

Richmond icon steps into history at Oxford debate

By: Robert Rogers | July 21, 2011 – 6:00 am

Long time anti-death penalty advocate Barbara Becnel represented her point of view with a triumphal debate at Oxford Union.

Becnel to headline anti-death penalty event in Richmond

By: Robert Rogers | June 24, 2011 – 8:45 am

With controversy over California’s use of capital punishment intensifying, anti-death penalty activists are looking to expand their outreach statewide – including into Richmond.

A Richmond activist fights gangs and governors

By: Natalie F. Jones | January 12, 2010 – 6:00 am

It’s not hard to imagine how Barbara Becnel charmed her way into spending more than 12 hours a day with Los Angeles gangsters for a...