Tag Archives: barbara becnel

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...