The city of Oakland and nonprofit partners recently announced a second round of grants awarded to people of color to fund artistic and cultural projects on racial justice.

The “Belonging In Oakland: A Just City Cultural Fund” launched last year as a partnership between the city’s Cultural Affairs Division, the East Bay Community Foundation and the Akonadi Foundation. The second round of awards announced Thursday went to eight projects that are receiving a combined $780,000 in two-year grants.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.