The 38th Homecoming and Anniversary Celebration for Mills Grove Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) starts Friday, May 17, and continues on Saturday through Sunday, May 19. Rev. Eloise Knox, pastor of the Bell Chapel C.M.E. Church, San Francisco, will preach the opening sermon at 6:00p.m. Servant B.K. Woodson of Bay Area Christian Connection will...
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A Diasporic Dialogue with Olugbemiga Oluwole By Babatunde Harrison There was a time in the Diasporic story of the Blackman, when the American dream was a long endless nightmare. Those were the days when Africans were forcibly brought into America against their will to work and toil until they were dead. Times have changed...
Read more →Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy (BABIP) will be hosting their Strengthening Our House: A Capacity Building Seminar for nonprofits serving the Black community on Tuesday, May 21. The seminar will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1111 Broadway in Oakland. Topics will include: “How to Approach Foundations,” “Communicating Your Financial Story: ...
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Republican legislator offers bold plan for diversity and low-revenue districts Recently, the Post staff sat down with Senator Mimi Walters (R-Irvine) and discussed legislation which would increase a school district’s ability to integrate digital textbooks into California’s classrooms. Senate Bill 185, which is scheduled to be heard on the Senate Floor in late May,...
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Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) supported Governor Jerry Brown’s school funding plan. In a statement released Tuesday Huff said, “Of all the options being presented by California’s majority party, the governor’s plan does the most to help students from low-income families, and those students still facing the challenge of mastering English.” “Directing...
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The Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee approved an ammunition tax measure, AB 187, this week which will provide a new source of revenue to assist communities facing high levels of gun violence. Authored by Assemblymembers Rob Bonta and Roger Dickinson, the measure would place a 10 percent tax on all ammunition sold in California,...
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Macheo Payne, who is graduating this month with a doctorate in educational leadership from San Francisco State University, is an Oakland native who has spent almost 20 years working at the grassroots level to improve education, particularly for youth in the African American communities. He says his studies have helped him look at system-wide...
Read more →By Jesse Jackson The student loan burden is reaching crisis proportions. Young Americans are being saddled with unsustainable debts. A New York Federal Reserve Bank study found that a stunning 43 percent of 25-year-olds had student loan debts in 2012. Debt now averages over $25,000 for graduates of four-year colleges. Student loan debt now...
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The Grandparents Club of the Dr. Herbert Guice Christian Academy received many expressions of thanks, gratitude and appreciation from the students and their families for their annual fundraising efforts to provide grants to assist students and families who want to receive an accredited first-class Christian-oriented education. The Grandparents Club pays one half of the...
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Special to the Post Home Defenders League groups from 25 areas across the country are converging on Washington D.C. next week to protest at the Department of Justice to demand that President Obama prosecute Wall Street banks that gutted the economy. The Home Defenders League is hosting a week of actions, teach-ins, sit-ins and...
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Satellite Affordable Housing Associates (SAHA) and Oakland Housing Initiatives welcomed visitors to the future site of Lakeside Senior Apartments during their groundbreaking event on Thursday May 16. Located one block from Lake Merritt, the site is set to become a 92-unit affordable housing complex for low-income seniors. The groundbreaking event, part of East Bay...
Read more →By Ned MacKay According to Katie Colbert, the East Bay Regional Park District naturalist who has studied the reptiles for many years: “People are seeing the rattlesnakes now because they have come out of their winter dormancy and are moving around mostly looking for food, but the males might also be ranging a little...
Read more →The Bay Area Media Mission (BAMM)-KDYA 1190AM, The Post News Group, and The Richmond Main Street Initiative (RMSI)-are presenting May as Mother’s Month and offering healthy tips for breast cancer prevention. Studies have shown that lifestyle changes decrease the risk of breast cancer even in women with higher risks. Steps that you can take...
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Downtown Oakland has undergone a renaissance that has captured national media attention, with Uptown emerging as a premier arts and entertainment destination. Local residents and visitors can glimpse both today’s happening scene and landmarks from Oakland’s past during the 2013 Oakland Tours season. Free 90-minute walking tours of downtown Oakland will be offered every...
Read more →The Alameda County Public Health Department will be offering free health screenings for families, Saturday, June 1, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the East Oakland Boxing Association, 816 98th Ave. in Oakland. Free screenings will offered for blood pressure, weight and BMI, blood cholesterol and glucose, vision and hearing, body fat assessment and...
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East Oakand residents went to the Oakland City Council meeting Tuesday night last week to oppose the opening of a mega-crematorium near Oakland International Aiprort, where Stewart Industries has planned to burn 3,000 bodies a year. The council unanimously approved a resolution backed by community members that the crematorium cannot be built without going...
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Softball pitcher Rachel Sanders, a junior at Holy Names High School, is taking her game to another level. Inspired by the Bay Area Rescue Mission, a nonprofit providing services and shelter for the homeless in Richmond, Sanders started Strikeout Hunger, a drive to raise funds for feeding the hungry. In participating in community service...
Read more →The Hannah Gallery will present The Gospel Café on Sunday, May 26 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The public is invited to stop by to eat, chat and enjoy the refreshing sound of Gospel music. Supervised kids are welcome. Admission is free. An “open mic” will be available, 10-minute maximum per turn on...
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Young people in Marin City will have opportunities to explore career options through a paid internship this summer, as part of the Summer Youth Development Program run by the Marin City Community Development Corporation (MCCDC) for youth ages 14-21. MCCDC will be offering youth work experience and job placement opportunities as well as Academic...
Read more →For one in six people in Alameda County, hunger is a reality. This summer, the San Leandro Library will join other libraries across California in collecting 10,000 pounds of food for those in need. To kickoff the summer food drive, the San Leandro Public Library will offer Food For Fines from Monday, June 3...
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Mayor Stephen Cassidy has announced that the historic Manor Shopping Center neon sign will be illuminated on Friday, May 24, for the first time in over 30 years. The Optimist Club of San Leandro and the City of San Leandro split the $13,400 cost of restoring the neon sign, with the city using funds...
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The San Leandro Public Library will celebrate Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Winnie Wong, guzheng musician, Thursday, May 30, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Main Library, 300 Estudillo Ave. in San Leandro. Admission is free. The guzheng is a plucked-string traditional musical instrument that has existed in China for over 2500...
Read more →Success in the job market can be hit or miss, but perseverance can lead to rewarding results. San Francisco’s HIREvent will provide an opportunity for jobseekers who are out of work, stuck in dead-end jobs, or looking for new careers to connect with representatives from the public and private sectors, who are eager to...
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Lobsang Marcia, Alfonso Solis and Blanca Arteaga are three of the outstanding graduates who will be honored at San Francisco State University commencement on May 25. Raised by his grandmother in Nicaragua until he was 17, Marcia spoke limited English when he reunited with his mother in the U.S. in 2006. Despite this limitation,...
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The San Francisco Juneteenth Committee and the San Francisco Chapter of the NAACP are holding the 63rd Annual Juneteenth Celebration and NAACP Unity Weekend in the Fillmore District, between Geary and Eddy Streets, on Saturday, June 15 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Juneteenth celebration activities include: live musical performances from local artists; a...
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By Kia Croom Cindy Howell is founder of Natural Healing Tree Women’s Wellness Center and Granny’s Kitchen located in Point Richmond, which offers space for women of all walks of life to work and heal together in all aspects of their lives. The center offers workshops on healthy eating and cooking, preventive health, stress...
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By Kia Croom Richmond native Wyvonne Brown is celebrating the opening of her second salon, Beauty by Nature Hair Studio, at 121 Park Place in Point Richmond. The new location is an upgrade of her previous location. Brown was motivated to move her business to a more spacious setting, feeling she had outgrown her...
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By Post Staff Willie Hicks knows that an unacceptable number of Richmond residents cannot find steady work. He also knows it’s not from lack of trying. “I have 82 people on the list right now who are out of work,” he said. “Some of them call me every day.” Hicks has worked nearly 20...
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By Kia Croom You may have noticed something different about Wednesday mornings near Verde Elementary School. Children from grades Kindergarten through sixth grade are laughing, walking and talking together as they enjoy a brisk walk to school. A dedicated group of parents and neighborhood residents have formed what they call the “Walking School Bus,” ...
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By Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez For awhile there, you thought you were gonna die. Your head hurt. Your body ached, and your stomach was acting like a fresh-caught fish – but that didn’t matter much. Bills still needed paying and business needed attending. There was family to care for, work to do. Yes,...
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By Benjamin Todd Jealous There is no way to make up for decades of discrimination that crippled the proud history of Black farm ownership in America. But we can do our best to move forward. In 1999, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agreed to settle the civil rights lawsuit Pigford v Glickman. The...
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By Marc Morial “The findings represent a tipping point for blacks, who for much of American history were disenfranchised and then effectively barred from voting until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.” Associated Press Last July, the National Urban League released a report entitled “The Hidden Swing Voters.” Our report predicted...
Read more →Bees and other insects will be the focus of a couple of programs on Sunday, May 19 at Tilden Nature Area in Berkeley. Naturalist James Wilson will host a meet and greet with local bees, while talking about the importance of a healthy bee population, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Then from 2 p.m....
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By Roibín Ó hÉochaidh, UC Bekeley News Center Tension-spoked wheels. Triangular metal frame. Crank-and-chain drivetrain. The bicycle is perhaps man’s simplest means of self-propelled transportation. For UC Berkeley graduate student Christopher Ategeka, however, the humble machine propelled him on a journey from the dirt tracks of East Africa to Oakland’s asphalt streets and the...
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By Kunbi Tinuoye A pair of identical twins at Spelman College in Atlanta have achieved a first in the school’s 132-year history. Kirstie and Kristie Bronner, both music majors, have been named co-valedictorians for the class of 2013. The sisters will each graduate with a perfect 4.0 GPA, the highest grade point average out...
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Seniors at Oakland’s Emiliano Zapata Street Academy recently celebrated completion of their senior projects, giving 10-minute presentations on the social issue of their choice to an enthusiastic audience of the school’s parents and staff- Their projects were the culmination of two quarters of hard work, anxiety and worry, since a completed senior project is...
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West Oakland residents want a CLA (City Labor Agreement) with jobs for the city’s unemployed, not just for suburban union members By Post Staff Some supporters of the new West Oakland Job Resource Center are raising concerns that the center may not be able to realize its promise of helping job seekers at the...
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By Ken A. Epstein Most of the Oakland Police Department’s top commanders have resigned or been replaced, just a week after Oakland’s new federal overseer issued a blistering report criticizing Oakland police leaders for the department’s failure to institute policies and practices that protect residents’ constitutional rights. “All the top people were removed or...
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City Audit cited Tagami’s CCIG for “failure to deliver projects on time and within budget” Frantic Negotiations Continue to Save Army Base Businesses By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor While construction groundbreaking is still months away, Oakland’s massive Gateway Army Base development project moved forward on three separate fronts last week, with the project winning key...
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Attorney General Kamala Harris filed an enforcement action against JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Chase)this week alleging that the bank engaged in fraudulent and unlawful debt-collection practices against tens of thousands of Californians. The suit alleges that Chase engaged in widespread, illegal robo-signing, among other unlawful practices, to commit debt-collection abuses against approximately 100,000 California...
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DeFremery Park, which was the home to the USO for African Americans in World War II, will be receiving a facelift and a makeover of its historic grounds. Friends of deFremery Park held a reception May 3 to recognize McElhaney’s work and last month’s Earth Day cleanup of the park. More than 175 volunteers...
Read more →By Jesse Brooks For over a decade, Blacks have been disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. Although they account for over half of new infections each year in the United States, African Americans account for a low percentage of experimental vaccine participants. According to Dr. Susan Buchbinder, director of Bridge HIV research department at the San...
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Ora McClendon, affectionately known as “Carol” to family and friends, passed away on April 14 at the age of 90. She was born Ora Hopkins on Dec. 15, 1922 in the Jackson Parish of Quitman, Louisiana to Green and Rose Hopkins. She graduated from Chatum High School in Quitman and was a faithful member...
Read more →Rev. Clarence L. Johnson announced that the annual revival of the Mills Grove Christian Church, 5410 Fleming Avenue, Oakland, will begin with a reception at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17. Praise Dancers will perform and sermons will be delivered by Rev. Elvis Knox and B.K. Woodson. A continental breakfast with music by the...
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By Tanya Dennis Representative Mel Watt, Democrat Representative from North Carolina was named to replace Ed DeMarco on May 1st as the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) after a year of protests from housing activists. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley called Demarco’s actions “inexplicable” and joined New York’s Attorney General Eric...
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Kaiser Permanente, the largest health-care provider in Northern California, has announced that it will invest $11.7 million in the Oakland community. The investment will help keep children and teens healthier year-round by expanding school-based health centers, and will also enhance programs that promote learning and job-related opportunities. Through funds established by Kaiser Permanente at...
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Amsterdam News Staff The Amsterdam News has learned, and the U.S. Embassy has confirmed, that Malcolm Shabazz – grandson of Malcolm X, was killed in Mexico. Several reports around the circumstances of his death, stilled unconfirmed, have rummored that he died early Thursday morning, May 9, 2013 from injuries sustained after he was thrown...
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