By: Malaika Bobino Oakland, CA – The decision was made and he will finally start his first NFL game since being signed two years ago. Raiders head coach Dennsi Allen announced the news to media Friday before Sunday’s game against the San Diego Chargers. “It’s my decision and I have decided to go with...
Read more →By: Malaika Bobino Sacramento, CA – It was an amazing comeback but you had to be there to see it. After blowing a twenty-seven point lead in the first half, the New York Knicks rallied back behind J.R. Smith who finished the night with 28 points. With the clock running out James Johnson made...
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By Rev. Dr. W. Haziah Williams,1988 “The hopes and fears of all the years are met in Thee tonight.” This is a most insightful arrival of understanding the dilemma of reality. The words are more searing today than ever. The hopes and the fears are not only met in the occasion but are mingled...
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By Camryn Crump Bishop Yvette Flunder recently was awarded the “Heritage Award” at the 8th annual “Out Awards” in Las Vegas, an awards show celebrating the best Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) recording artists in music each year that have messages of inclusion, equality and creative achievements. The award comes on the heels...
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By Hattie Carwell Dr. James Gates will receive the National Science Award, and Dr. George Carruthers will receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation – among the highest honors conferred upon scientists and engineers by the federal government The newly named recipients will receive their awards at a White House ceremony next year....
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By Craig Brown The “Idle No More” movement, a campaign of grassroots First Nations protests, has spread like wildfire over the past week in response to bills passed by the conservative Canadian government. The protests are against the passage of the C-45, omnibus budget bill, which includes changes to the Canadian Indian Act regarding...
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Three Kenyans – Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, Francis Kirimi Muthaura and Mohammed Hussein Ali – are appearing at the international criminal court in The Hague charged with crimes against humanity, after being exposed by youth using the web and mobile phones. The three Kenyans are accused of contributing to an estimated 1,300 deaths in violence...
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California Department of Public Health (CDPH) director and state health officer Dr. Ron Chapman has released the state’s first “State Health Officer’s Report on Tobacco Use and Promotion” providing new data related to cigarette consumption declines, and the millions of dollars and lives saved. The report also includes new data on illegal sales to...
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Pope Benedict, white-haired, 85, and a neophyte to social media site Twitter, has beaten out 18-year old heartthrob Justin Bieber to set a percentage record for re-tweeting by his followers, the Vatican said on Thursday. The Vatican newspaper said that as of noon Italian time on Thursday the pope had 2.1 million followers on...
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The California Homeowner Bill of Rights, a landmark package of legislation that extends key mortgage and foreclosure protections to California homeowners and borrowers, will take effect on Jan. 1 The new laws restrict dual-track foreclosures, guarantee struggling homeowners a reliable point of contact at their lender and impose civil penalties on fraudulently signed mortgage...
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“In the Name of Love” is the 11th annual tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest humanitarians of our time, starring American singing legend and Grammy Award winner Jennifer Holiday; the 65-voice Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir; and the 250-voice Oakland Children’s Community Choir. The event will take place from 7 p.m....
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By Lee Hildebrand The blues community is mourning the passing of bluesman Jimmy McCracklin, who diedThursday, Dec. 20, at Creekside Health Center in San Pablo. The prolific singer, pianist and songwriter, a longtime Richmond resident, was 91. “He had a style that was completely his own,” singer-guitarist Sonny Rhodes said of his late friend. ...
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By Godfrey Lee Santa Claus visited Mill Valley on Wednesday, Dec. 19 and Marin City on Sunday, Dec. 23, to give out presents and made the holiday season more joyous for the children living in Southern Marin. On Wednesday, Aaron and Tiffany Singer, owners of Seaplane Adventures, dressed as Santa and Mrs. Claus, arrived...
Read more →By Alice A. Huffman, Criminal Justice Chair for the National Board of the NAACP and the State Conference President in California/Hawaii; and Wilfred T. Ussery, former National Chairman of CORE and former President of the Board of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) How proud we were to watch the president...
Read more →By Jesse Jackson Christmas decorations light the streets. Malls are full. Christmas music fills the air. But this year, there is a somber undercurrent to the celebration. We will all hug our children a little harder. Our hearts will be in our throats as they go out to play. After the horror of Newtown,...
Read more →By Will Delaney The 2nd Annual McKinley Williams and John Easterling Community Chess Tournament was held recently at the Richmond Recreation facility on MacDonald Avenue. The Dec. 8 tournament was sponsored by the City of Richmond, Contra Costa College and the West Coast Chess Alliance (WCCA). Coordinators were Trendell Ball, Gerl Jenkins and Will...
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By DeVone Boggan There is an African Proverb that I am fond of quoting: “The experience of one generation becomes the history of the next, and the history of several generations becomes the traditions of a people.” On Dec. 14 like many Americans and peoples from around the world, I found myself once again...
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By Evelyn McDonald Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Richmond is celebrating the birthday of Mother Stevanna Herron, who turned 100 on Thursday. She is a charter member of the church and has been a member for 69 years. Very active in the community, she was one of the organizers of the Girls Club,...
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By Danielle Savage Chief Debra Pryor, who made history as the first woman head of the Berkeley Fire Department, is retiring at the end of the month after 20 years in the city’s fire service. She has been fire chief since 2004. “I was the first woman hired, and I just happened to be...
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Everett and Jones Barbeque hosted its annual Holiday Toy Giveaway at its Berkeley restaurant on Saturday, Dec. 22, handing out toys to children in need for Christmas. Owner Mary Everett (center photo wearing Santa hat) started the toy giveaway 20 years ago, using toys donated by her loyal customers and celeb athletes New...
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By Jim Slater, AP Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with “Rescue Me” in 1965, has died. She was 72. Bass died Wednesday night at a St. Louis hospice of complications from a heart attack suffered three weeks ago, her daughter, Neuka Mitchell, said. Bass...
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Mayor Jean Quan and Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan this week pledged to reduce the rates of homicide and other serious crime in Oakland in the coming year. The police department will hire nationally known police consultant William J. Bratton to institute Bratton’s CompStat data driven management model, which he first introduced in New...
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By Post Staff Nyeisha Dewitt, who has worked to secure jobs for Oakland residents on the e Army Base development project and a candidate for Oakland City Council in November, has been hired as a senior field representative in the office of newly elected Assemblymember Rob Bonta, who takes the place of Sandre Swanson,...
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Nearly a year after former City Administrator Deborah Edgerly lost a lawsuit against the City of Oakland over her firing, the state Court of Appeals has rejected her attempt to pursue a claim based on the state’s whistle-blower law. Edgerly sued the city in 2009 after she was fired in July 2008 by former...
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Children Learn Science and Math Related to Circus Acts Prescott Circus Theatre boasts some of Oakland’s most energetic young stars. This month 30 young performers knocked the holiday socks off of the crowds at the Oakland Holiday Parade as jugglers, unicyclists, stilt walkers, and acrobats. “This is the largest contingent we’ve ever put together,”...
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Maudelle Shirek, 101, celebrated Christmas this year singing carols with fellow church members in her Berkeley home, where she still lives with round-the-clock care. A former vice mayor and eight-term City Council member in Berkeley, she was born in Jefferson, Arkansas and grew up on a farm, the granddaughter of slaves. She moved to...
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Godfrey White, former Executive Director of Elderly Affairs Office of the Governor of Louisiana, has returned home to Oakland. He was appointed to the Louisiana position by Governor Kathleen Blanco in 2003. White, a native of New Iberia, Louisiana, was a resident of Oakland when he took time away from his successful marketing and...
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By Ashley Chambers An Inaugural Prayer Service for District 3 Councilmember-Elect Lynette Gibson McElhaney will be held at the Evergreen Baptist Church under Bishop Frank Pinkard at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 5, hosted by the Baptist Ministers Union, Pastors of Oakland, Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, and Bay Cities Baptist Ministers Union and the United...
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I was hungry, and you gave me food: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in: Matthew 25:35 Each holiday, the Oakland Black Caucus and the Oakland Post News Group host a feeding for the less fortunate at 410 14th St. The annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Feast...
Read more →By: Malaika Bobino Sacramento, CA – The drama that has plagued this team has come to an end. The Kings suspended DeMarcus Cousin indefinitely which means there is no time table as to when he’ll return. In the meantime, Sacramento must move on without one of the key pieces to their puzzle. Surprisingly, the...
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Over 2,000 firearms were seized this year from individuals legally barred from possessing them, including persons determined to be mentally unstable and those with active restraining orders, Attorney General Kamala D. Harris said this week. “California has clear laws determining who can possess firearms based on their threat to public safety,” said Harris. “Enforcing...
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UC News Center At a recent UC Berkeley book-launch event, sociologist Michael Omi described his colleague john a. powell as “two persons rolled into one” — “john the theoretician, who draws on a range of disciplines to rethink notions of race, racial identity and racism,” and “john the grounded and practical policy analyst.” Both...
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Alameda County Superior Court Judge Wynne Carvill has ordered the Illinois-based Walgreen Co. to pay $16.57 million as part of a settlement of a civil prosecution because its stores were illegally Dumping hazardous wastes and confidential customer medical information. The judgment is the culmination of a civil enforcement lawsuit filed in Alameda County in...
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By Jesse Brooks Featuring women from across the country and from all walks of life speaking openly and candidly about HIV/AIDS, the documentary, “Many Women, One Voice; African American Women in HIV,” inspires women to take care of themselves. The film was designed to help Black women talk about HIV, featuring personal reflections, thoughts...
Read more →By Carla Thomas The Bay Area Black Pilots Association held its annual Christmas fundraiser banquet on Saturday, Dec. 8 at the Doubletree Hotel in the Berkeley Marina. “Once you get hooked on flying, there’s no turning back,” said BABPA President Greg Scott, who greeted nearly 100 people at the banquet. “We have a great...
Read more →Crab Cove Visitor Center at Crown Beach in Alameda is holding a holiday week open house from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, Dec. 26 through Dec. 28. There will be special activities each day, such as nature crafts, games, and interaction with the center’s snake and turtle. The daily schedule includes...
Read more →Allen Temple Baptist Church is hosting internationally renowned gospel artist, producer and minister Tye Tribbett for one night only, 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 27. Tribbett has produced four outstanding albums (“Live,” “Victory Live,” “Stand Out,” and ”Fresh”) and is coming to Allen Temple’s sanctuary at 8501 International Blvd. to minister in Oakland. Tickets are...
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“I notice that my kids now gravitate towards the fruit first before chips or any other unhealthy items. Now they want watermelon, they want kiwis — something I thought my kids would never like. It helps them learn and I find that they have more energy as far as paying more attention in class....
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Dr. José M. Ortiz, Chancellor of the Peralta Community College District, has named Dr. Deborah Budd to lead Berkeley City College and Dr. Norma Ambriz-Galaviz to be the next president of Merritt College. Dr. Budd is currently interim president at Berkeley City, and Dr. Ambriz-Galaviz is vice president of instruction at Mission College. “Dr....
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Renowned bass-baritone David L. Tigner, 61, died Dec. 11 of chronic renal and congestive heart failure. As a child, Tigner discovered he had perfect pitch plunking out a Johann Sebastian Bach prelude by ear on a broken piano at his family’s Sebastopol home. He joined the San Francisco Opera in 1974 after two years...
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Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) delivered her 444th and final speech expressing her opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and her support for a “Smart” approach to national security. She is retiring this year after 20 years in Congress. “Mister Speaker, throughout my career in public life and even before, nothing has motivated...
Read more →By Jesse Jackson Do not turn your eyes from the horror of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn. Twenty children, their teachers and aides, their school principal shot repeatedly, in some cases beyond recognition, by a 20-year-old wielding a semiautomatic assault weapon. As he has shown in his moving words after...
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By Lee Hubbard The seventh annual San Francisco Kwanzaa Celebration will take place starting at noon Wednesday, Dec. 26 at San Francisco City Hall. The keynote address will be given by Dr. Amos Brown, senior pastor at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco. “Dr. Amos Brown is a very powerful speaker, and he will...
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By Carla Thomas San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) General Manager Harlan Kelly, Jr. and San Francisco City Administrator Naomi Kelly were honored recently by community leaders at the South East Community College. About 100 community members came together Nov. 28 to celebrate history, change and a brighter future for the Bay View District...
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By Lee Hubbard It has been a rough month and a half for the Rev. John J Hunter. He was reassigned a little over a month ago from First African Methodist Episcopalian Church in Los Angeles to Bethel AME Church in San Francisco. He was set to take over at Bethel when parishioners at...
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