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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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 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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By Ashley Chambers With Mother’s Day approaching, Sankofa African Arts & Jewelry at 120 Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland has pieces fit for a Queen. One of a kind amber, silver, and gem stone jewelry fill the display in this local shop accessorized with unique handbags, African fabrics and artifacts, handmade masks, drums, incense,...
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The Temple Hill Symphony Orchestra is presenting its Spring Concert, “Blast Off,” on Saturday, May 18 and Sunday, May 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Oakland Temple Hill’s Inter-stake Center Auditorium. Presented by Jay Trottier, the orchestra’s new conductor, with help from Dr. Scott Holden, head of the BYU Music Department, and the Golden Gate...
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By Post Staff Professor, author, and East Bay resident, Margo Okazawa-Rey, became known to thousands of educators with her 1998 co-edited book, “Beyond Heroes and Holidays.” This collection of analytical essays and curricular materials for K-12 educators challenged the prevailing approaches that focused on a list of famous figures and ethnic holidays during the...
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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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City Auditor Courtney Ruby has sent out an email “Call to Action” asking Oakland residents to defend her audit that accuses two city council members of interfering with staff in awarding a $6 million Army Base development contract. Ruby’s email was sent on April 26, after the council’s Rules Committee placed an item on...
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City officials scramble to make city feel safe and secure as police changes occur By Ken A. Epstein Police Chief Howard Jordan’s decision to retire from the Oakland Police Department, effectively immediately, took police and city officials by surprise this week. He made his announcement Wednesday morning right before a press conference scheduled...
Read more →The People’s Inter-Cities Fellowship Women’s Ministry is raising funds for its annual women’s retreat. A Spring Yard and Bake Sale Extravaganza will be held on Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The sale will be near the tennis court on Drake Avenue in Marin City. There will also be a fish...
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Marin City Fatherhood Council will present “Celebrating Our Fathers,” a Fathers Day breakfast and awards celebration at the Marin City Marguerita Johnson Senior Center on Saturday, June 15, from 9:30 a.m. to noon. The goal of the event is to promote responsible fatherhood in a strong community. Organizers of the event encourage the Marin...
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By Godfrey Lee Jesse Foppert, baseball coach at Marin Catholic and former pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, spoke at the Marin Old Time Athletes (MOTA) dinner last Wednesday, May 1 at San Rafael Joes on Fourth Street. He talked about his experience as a professional baseball player and about how he had come...
Read more →The green Senior BART ticket is being replaced by the Senior Clipper card, an all-in-one transit card. The clipper card keeps track of multiple passes, ride books or tickets (which are specific to the transit system being used), as well as up to $300 in cash value at one time, while applying all applicable...
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How jobseekers present themselves in the job interview can make or break their chances for success. The San Leandro Public Library will host an interview seminar for midlife jobseekers on Thursday evening, June 6 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The seminar, which is free to the public, will take place at the Main...
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By Ashley Chambers Chatting with golf-lover Reyhan Griffin, 14, one can notice that the young man is wise beyond his years. A 4.0 student from San Francisco’s Bayview district, he was the grand prizewinner of Wells Fargo’s Succeeding Together video essay contest, playing in the 2013 Wells Fargo Championship Pro-Am last week alongside Rickie...
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By Kia Croom More than 200 people attended the Black American Political Action Committee’s (BAPAC) Sixth Annual Judge Carroll Community Service Awards reception and fundraiser held on May 2 in Richmond Sanitary lobby. The annual event is a fundraiser that recognizes outstanding citizens for community service, leadership and dedication to the Richmond Community. This...
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Ten-year-old Tariah Brown, a student at Verde Elementary School in North Richmond, has been a cheerleader for the past four years. A SWAT All Stars Youth Divas Youth Prep Level I cheerleader, she and her Northern California team competed against a team in Southern California for the Cali Finale North vs. South, April 19-21,in...
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By Post Staff As educators across the country are responding to the call to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in K-12 classrooms, one local teacher is making extra efforts to make sure her students receive the best in science education. Fifth grade teacher Shaundra Miller, who was raised and educated in Richmond...
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By Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez Sometimes, your entire life feels like a recipe for drama. Oh, you really hate it, and you’d like to wipe your plate clean of it all, but that’s never goanna happen. No matter what’s cooking around you, there’s always an extra ingredient to increase the tension: raw emotion,...
Read more →The Berkeley Alliance will hold an 8th grade workshop to help students and families understand the challenges students may experience as they transition from middle school to high school on Thursday, May 16 at Willard Middle School, 2425 Stuart St. in Berkeley. The workshop will also provide some basic information about post-secondary opportunities and...
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Author and columnist Annalee Allen is Oakland’s 2013 Mother of the Year. A longtime city resident, Allen is the coordinator of the city-sponsored Oakland Tours Program and serves on the Alameda County Parks Recreation and Historical Commission. Married with three sons, she is a weekly columnist with the Oakland Tribune newspaper.
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By Joseph Serna, L.A. Times A limousine burst into flames when a rear door was opened in an attempt to save the passengers inside, the limo’s driver told CNN in an interview Monday afternoon. “Everything happened so fast,” LimoStop Inc. driver Orville Brown, 46, said. “When that back door opened, it just burst into...
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Congresswomen Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) this week introduced H.R. 1843, the Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal (REPEAL) HIV Discrimination Act. The REPEAL Act expresses the sense of Congress that federal and state laws, policies, and regulations should not place a unique or additional burden on individuals solely as...
Read more →The Oakland Emiliano Zapata Street Academy’s Youth Action Team (Y.A.T.) recently hosted a school-wide assembly to discuss violence in the city, bringing the message “It’s NOT whatever!” to their classmates on Thursday, April 18.. Students at the school were assigned the task of creating and leading a project to address youth violence in Oakland....
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By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor Officials with the Port of Oakland’s longtime cargo inspection company announced this week that they will have to lay off a portion of their workforce, and Oakland will immediately see a drop in the amount of cargo destined for its port if an ongoing conflict involving a move from their...
Read more →Assemblymember Rob Bonta will be holding a hearing for the Assembly Select Committee on Gun Violence in the East Bay on Friday, May 17 from 9 a.m. to noon in the auditorium of the Elihu Harris State Building, 1515 Clay Street, in Oakland. A press conference will take place at 8 a.m. at the...
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By Josh Levs, Phil Gast and Steve Almasy, CNN Within hours of becoming a national hero, a viral video star and the top topic on Twitter, Charles Ramsey talked about having trouble getting sleep. It wasn’t because of all the excitement that followed his knocking down a Cleveland neighbor’s door, freeing three women and...
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By Post Staff The new independent Compliance Director who oversees the Oakland Police Department has released a sweeping “Remedial Action Plan” that requires broader reforms than those that were part of the original settlement that led to the federal takeover. “This action plan…goes well beyond the issues contained in the 11 Negotiated settlement Agreement...
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Centerforce, a leading organization that serves youth, families and formerly incarcerated adults – will hold a celebration and fundraising event Wednesday, May 15 from 5 p.m.- 8 p.m. at Coliseum Lexus of Oakland, located at 7273 Oakport St. For over 30 years, Centerforce has been a national leader in providing evidence-based programs to...
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Democrat Linda Dorcena Forry, a Haitian-American from Dorchester, Boston, won her party’s nomination in the race for the First Suffolk state Senate seat. Her opponent will be Joseph Anthony Ureneck in Boston’s May 28 election. If elected, Forry will be the first woman and minority to represent the Boston district and the first Haitian-American...
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The premiere of “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners,” written and directed by Shola Lynch with questions and answers by Angela Davis, will take place Tuesday, May 7 at 7 p.m. at the Landmark Piedmont Theater, 4186 Piedmont Ave. in Oakland. In this historical vérité style (observational) documentary marking the 40th anniversary of Davis’...
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The Oakland City Council will decide Tuesday, May 7 whether to extend an ordinance that requires crematoriums to obtain a Major Conditional Use Permit (CUP) in order to operate in Oakland, a rule that was adopted last May. Among those urging the council to make the ordinance permanent are East Oakland residents, Allen Temple...
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By Carla Thomas Acts Full Gospel Church of God in Christ’s Youth Department presented a “Diamonds In the Rough” Debutante Ball last Saturday night at HS Lordships Restaurant in the Berkeley Marina. Themed “Celebrating our Strengths and Accomplishments,” the black tie gala showcased over a dozen young women in white ball gowns with matching...
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