{"id":310299,"date":"2026-05-11T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310299\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:48:11","slug":"oakland-honors-mama-c-as-mother-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310299\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland honors &#8216;Mama C&#8217; as &#8216;Mother of the Year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/l4jvgz7h144uh2g9.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland honors Mama C as 'Mother of the Year' \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; For Mother\u2019s Day, an Oakland woman received high honors for her lifelong commitment to her community and her family.<\/p>\n<p>   Honoring Mama C <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Why you should care:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Cassandra Lopez, affectionately known to locals as &#8220;Mama C,&#8221; was recognized by Oakland&#8217;s Parks and Recreation on Saturday with the Mother of the Year award during a ceremony at the Morcom Rose Garden.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Lopez has been a fixture in Oakland for more than 50 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Her career included 40 years of service within the Oakland Public Schools. Beyond her professional work, she has been a dedicated activist, participating in the civil rights movement and co-founding one of the nation&#8217;s early welfare rights organizations.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Even in her later years, Lopez remains active in local leadership, serving as the head of the Mosswood Recreation Center Advisory Council.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">&#8220;I guess giving back to the community and just being&#8230; and over and beyond our family, to the larger family,&#8221; Lopez said of the honor.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The event marked the 73rd annual Mother of the Year award ceremony hosted by the city.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6-mother-of-the-year-2_00.00.23.42.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Well-wishers take pictures of Cassandra Lopez, honored as &#8220;Mother of the Year.&#8221; May 9, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; For Mother\u2019s Day, an Oakland woman received high honors for her lifelong commitment to her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,100,143,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-310299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}