Andrew Frank Hatch, who is 113 years old, was born Oct. 7, 1898, the same year as the Spanish American War and the world’s first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. A native of a small town in Louisiana near the Texas border, he moved to Oakland in 1928. According to...
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(CBS/AP) Disco queen Donna Summer has died, a family spokesperson told the Associated Press. She was 63. Her family released a statement Thursday saying Summer had died and that they “are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy.”’ Summer had been living in Englewood, Fla., with her husband Bruce Sudano. She...
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Jabari Parker, who maintains a GPA of 3.6, is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was recently named the Gatorade National Boys’ Basketball Player of the Year Before Parker takes the floor to play a basketball game, he sits by himself in the locker room for a couple...
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Council President Larry Reid and Alameda County Democratic Party Vice Chair Kathy Neal are backing Rob Bonta who is running for California State Assembly to continue the legacy of outgoing Assemblyman Sandre Swanson. Reid said “We recognize that Rob Bonta has already walked the walk and proven he is the right person for this...
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OCCUR’s Eastmont Technology Center and Computer Clubhouse will hold an Open House to showcase youth projects from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday, May 24 at 6948 Foothill Blvd. in Oakland. Members of the music group Poplyfe and D’wayne Wiggins of Tony Toni Tone are among the invited guests. The Eastmont Intel Computer Clubhouse...
Read more →Nearly 100,000 unionized workers are celebrating a tentative national agreement reached with Kaiser Permanente hat provides raises and maintains workers’ full benefits, but also contains unique new provisions to promote better health among Kaiser employees as a way of lowering costs and modeling healthy lifestyles to the public. “This contract takes labor relations to...
Read more →Lend A Hand Foundation is seeking donations to provide 10,000 low-income youth with backpacks before school opens in the fall. The goal is for 500 or more people to donate $25, which will allow Lend A Hand to purchase 2,500 additional backpacks and other school supplies. The fund drive, which continues until July 15,...
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A memorial service was held recently for Khalil Shaheed, a trumpet player and widely know jazz music educator who recorded with Jimi Hendrix and performed with drummer Buddy Miles, An overflowing crowd attended the April 22 memorial service at Nadine’s, a performance space in Jack London Square in Oakland that Shaheed had created and...
Read more →By Tanya Dennis Betty Reid Soskin, a former aide to state assembly members and a supporter of the “Rosie the Riveter” Historical Park in Richmond, will be honored with the Fannie Lou Hamer Award at UC Berkeley’s African American student’s graduation ceremony May 19 at Zellerbach Hall. Soskin, who became a National Park Ranger at...
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By Ashley Chambers Staff and clergy from PICO and Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) traveled to Sacramento on Thursday, April 26 for a statewide clergy gathering and to meet with political leaders Founded in 1972 by Father John Baumann, PICO is the largest faith-based organizing network in the U.S. with 1,000 religious congregations in more than...
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By Adenrele Iposu Nigerians from Enugu and Anambra states and other Nigerians from the Bay Area turned out in large numbers April 28 to celebrate the life of Doris Chibuko, one of the students killed by a gunman at Oikos University in Oakland, An overflowing crowd of mourners and friends attended the memorial service...
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By Adenrele Iposu Miliki Restaurant, a Nigerian-owned African cultural meeting place in the Bay Area, recently showcased several new African juju dance music bands. Gbadura Babalola, the lead vocalist for King Sunny Ade, introduced Babalola & the African Royal Beat April 28 to a packed house. Rasaki Oladokun, ace master talking drummer for King...
Read more →The public is invited to join the Women’s Ministry of People’s Inter-Cities Fellowship for a City Wide Women’s Prayer Breakfast. The theme will be “It’s Time To Go To The Altar and Pray,” 10:30 a.m., Saturday, May 26 at the People’s Inner City Fellowship Church at 639 Drake Ave. and Buckelew. For information or...
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A bill in the California Legislature is set to raise funds to save state parks, such as Tomales Bay, Olompali, Samuel P. Taylor, and China Camp, which are slated to close by 2013. They are currently operating but are open for limited hours. The bill, AB 1589, can help save the parks, raising revenue...
Read more →The Paul Robeson Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will host an expert on police accountability at its annual meeting at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 19 at the Rotunda, Hayward’s City Hall, in the Hayward Civic Center at 777 B St. The event will feature University of Nebraska’s Isaacson Professor of Criminal...
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Local schools are recognizing the work of eight students who participated in the Alameda County Science and Engineering Fair (ACSEF) in March and advanced to the California State Science Fair last week. The students competed with close to 1,000 students who had winning projects in their own county or regional fairs from all over...
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Adding insult to infamy, the alleged escort at the center of the Secret Service scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, gave an exclusive interview to Today on NBC, describing the accused agents, among other things, as “stupid,” “idiots” and as having left “their duty behind.” The 24-year-old Dania Londono Suarez told NBC that the Secret Service...
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The state university system invites Bay Area students of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage – who would be of the first generation in their families to go to college – to attend an educational summit to be held at Cal State East Bay Saturday, May 19. The summit, co-hosted by San Francisco State...
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Television newscaster Belva Davis has witnessed a lot of unfolding history during her 45-year career in Bay Area television. During her decades in the newsroom, she convinced Cuba’s Fidel Castro to give her a personal interview, ducked garbage and had the ‘N-word’ hurled at her as she covered the 1964 Goldwater nominating Republican convention...
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Clorox and some other major East Bay businesses are pushing to keep the Athletics baseball team in Oakland. “Clorox strongly and enthusiastically endorses the efforts of the East Bay business community and City of Oakland to keep the Oakland A’s here in a new, world-class stadium,” said Clorox Chairman and CEO Company Don Knauss,...
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The Peralta Association of African American Affairs this week presented $500 scholarships to 10 students who attend Berkeley City College, College of Alameda, Laney College and Merritt College Awards were given at a Thursday evening reception to students attending the Peralta Community College District who have demonstrated academic achievements, leadership skills, and community service...
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Oakland resident Adrienne Wilson will graduate May 19 from San Francisco State University, one of six top scholars chosen by fellow students to wear an academic hood to represent them at the commencement. Wilson is graduating with a master’s in public health. Her master’s research focused on how inequalities contribute to breast cancer rates...
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Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first sitting president to announce his support for same-sex marriage. In a sit-down interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts, he completed what has been a markedly long evolution on the matter. “I’ve always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally,” Obama told Roberts,...
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Oakland’s Office of Parks and Recreation is honoring Lisa Lemus as the Mother of the Year at its 59th annual award ceremony, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 12, at the Morcom Rose Garden, 700 Jean St. in Oakland. A lifelong educator, volunteer, counselor and mentor, Lemus is inspired by the example of...
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Sharon Taylor came to the OCCUR Eastmont Technology Center (ETC) just after completing a nine-month drug rehabilitation program. The friend who referred her to the program told her the center would provide the skills for continuing her education as well as pursuing her life and career goals. Taylor went to the orientation and was...
Read more →Federal drug regulators this week affirmed landmark study results showing that a popular HIV-fighting pill can also help healthy people avoid contracting the virus that causes AIDS in the first place. While the pill appears safe and effective for prevention, scientists stressed that it only works when taken every day. The Food and Drug...
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By Jesse Brooks In the wake of the funeral Wednesday for Brandy Martell, a Hayward resident who was shot in downtown Oakland, family and community remembers are asking questions about what police are doing to investigate the killing. Martell, 37, who identified as transsexual, was reportedly shot several times the morning of April...
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Panels and workshops were held Saturday, April 28 at the North Oakland Senior Center to provide residents with resources to help seniors and their caregivers plan for the future. “As the average age of the population increases, the importance of a caregiver becomes increasingly significant,” said Supervisor Keith Carson, who sponsored the event along...
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Stroke can strike anyone, anytime, anywhere – all races – infants and older adults – you and me – celebrities. Dick Clark, Bob Barker, Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, Tedy Bruschi, James Cagney, Charlie Daniels, Kirk Douglas, James Garner, Hugh Hefner, Burt Lancaster, and Samantha Morton are among the famous people who survived a stroke....
Read more →Alameda County residents with overdue traffic tickets have less than two months left to pay up through an amnesty program that allows some fines to be cut in half. Since Jan. 1, courts in the county and elsewhere throughout California have offered amnesty to people who have not paid traffic-ticket fines due before Jan....
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Nate Miley, Alameda County District 4 Supervisor, will be honored for his leadership and ongoing commitment to improving the lives of seniors by the Center for Elders’ Independence (CEI), a leading health plan for seniors in the East Bay. The award will be presented at the center’s 20th Anniversary celebration Friday, May 4, at...
Read more →By Thomas A. Farrington, PHEN Founder and President Billionaire Warren Buffet, who is nearly 82 years old, has announced that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. “I discovered the cancer because my PSA level recently jumped beyond its normal elevation, and a biopsy seemed warranted,” Buffet said. Diagnosed with Stage 1 prostate cancer, he chose...
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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is offering 13 summer internships, which will provide students with opportunities to gain professional work experience in transportation planning, finance and operational projects. Internships are generally full-time from June through September. To qualify for an internship, students must be enrolled at least part-time in a four-year undergraduate or graduate...
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The annual Walk to End Poverty will be held Saturday, May 19 at Lake Merritt in Oakland, hosted by the Alameda County-Oakland Community Action Partnership to raise awareness about the impact of poverty and what is being done to curb it. This free event takes place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Of...
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By Tanya Dennis If it were not for the quick thinking of a professor at San Francisco State University, thousands of photographs documenting 40 years of African American history in the Bay Area would have been lost forever. But instead, the 10,000 historical pictures taken by local photographer Emmanuel F. Joseph will be...
Read more →By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Would a young Martin Luther King Jr. be able to get a job in America today? Would one of the thousands who went to jail in support of Nelson Mandela? Or the brilliant kids at the center of Occupy Wall Street? Unless we begin to enforce the Civil...
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By Carla Orozco Volunteers and community members celebrated Earth Day with the dedication on April 21 of the Fred Jackson Harmony Garden on Fred Jackson Way in North Richmond. Adult and children volunteers also participated in a day of service, helping to clean up and improve the environment. Some volunteers worked on community gardens,...
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For the first time in over a decade, the Richmond YouthWORKS program, a division of the Department of Employment and Training, will open a storefront office aimed at providing a youth friendly service center to assist young adults with their employment and academic needs. The building renovation is overseen by Turner Group Construction, who...
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This spring, Berkeley Repertory Theatre concludes its season with another new play, featuring Dael Orlandersmith in “Black n Blue Boys / Broken Men.” This world premiere introduces audiences to children and adults forging identities in families fractured by abuse. Each relates a story that transforms these challenges into a celebration of our capacity to...
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Deborah Freedman Lustig’s birthday wish was simple: help pack 3,066 books to ship to three libraries in the small African country of Swaziland where children eagerly await the printed word. She gathered her immediate and extended family at her home, and the group set to work packing 48 boxes of books she collected in...
Read more →Graduate students in linguistics professor Lev Michael’s class at the University of California, Berkeley, will wrap up the year by producing a legacy for speakers of an endangered language called Garifuna. Under the guidance of Michael and native Garifuna (pronounced Ga-RIF-foo-nah) speaker Philip Tim Palacio of Rocklin, Calif., the nine students have spent the...
Read more →By Post Staff Members of the ACORN Seniors Committee of the Towncenter and Courtyards at ACORN Resident Council in West Oakland for a second time found themselves locked out of the ACORN Community Center meeting room after complaining that former officers of the Resident Council had confiscated their funds. Members of the seniors group...
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By Thomas Peele and Matthew Artz Bay Area News Group A high-profile Oakland police sergeant, whose investigation of the Chauncey Bailey homicide was widely criticized, has been accused of sexual harassment and assault by a female officer who alleges that when she rejected his advances she was “denied backup and cover” by other officers...
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Crystal Rivers was facing a dilemma that so many people encounter today with aging parents. When her 83-yea- old mother Wilma Isler could no longer live on her own in Florida, Rivers invited her to move in with her in San Leandro. Although Rivers knew the move would be the best thing for her...
Read more →When Oakland resident Sharon Brown’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at age 67, Sharon knew they were facing a hard road. Recently married, she contemplated divorce as she struggled to juggle her career and personal life with the stress of caregiving. “I didn’t want to burden my new husband,” she said. But luckily,...
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