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    Auditor’s Political Move to Lobby Council’s Help

    by  • May 10, 2013 • Bay Area, City Government, Featured, Government, News Group Publisher, Oakland News Articles, Open Government, Post News Feature Story, Socialmedia • 0 Comments

    Rashidah Grinage

    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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    Hero Charles Ramsey: “You Do What You Have to Do”

    by  • May 10, 2013 • Bay Area, Featured, News Articles, Oakland News Articles • 0 Comments

    Charles Ramsey

    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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    Frazier: Police Reform a Rocky Road

    by  • May 10, 2013 • Bay Area, City Government, Featured, Government, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Open Government, Post News Feature Story, Public Safety, Special Interests Articles • 0 Comments

    Thomas Frazier

    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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    Oakland Premiere of “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners”

    by  • May 3, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Angela Davis

    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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    Girls Inc. of Alameda County Strong, Smart, and Bold Luncheon

    by  • May 3, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    From left to right: Keisha Hayfron, Lois De Domenico, Luna Flores, Belva Davis, Sharon Yu, Katherine Sarafian, Lisset Perez, and Pam Moore at the 2013 Strong, Smart, and Bold Luncheon. Photo courtesy of Girls Inc. of Alameda County Facebook.

    A pillar of girl and women empowerment, Girls Inc. of Alameda County recently held its 25th Annual Strong, Smart, and Bold Luncheon where four young ladies, Keisha Hayfron, Sharon Yu, Luna Flores, and Lisset Perez, were awarded with Girls Inc. scholarships. The organization also honored Bay Area   journalist Belva Davis, producer of Disney Pixar’s...

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    Kamala Harris Announces $9.4 Million in Homeowner Assistance Grants

    by  • May 3, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Kamala Harris

    Attorney General Kamala Harris  has announced California’s National Mortgage Settlement Grant Program has awarded $9.4 million to 21 organizations in order to assist Californians affected by the state’s foreclosure crisis. “The foreclosure crisis has inflicted wide-ranging and deep harm to California homeowners and communities,” said  Harris. “These grants will give homeowners and families the...

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    SF Labor Protests for Construction Jobs

    by  • April 26, 2013 • Bay Area, Featured, News Articles, San Francisco, Special Interests Articles

    Sheet Metal workers led a protest Wednesday at BRE’s Annual Shareholder’s Meeting in downtown San Francisco.

    Members of Sheet Metal Workers’ Local Union 104 and other construction trades unions joined forces this week with environmentalists, transit advocates, and community leaders in a day of action at BRE’s Annual Shareholder’s Meeting to protest use of out-of-area workers at “substandard wages in developments around the Bay Area. “It is critical that the...

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    The 2.3 million people behind bars in the U.S. are incarcerated for nothing more than a non-violent drug offense.

    by  • April 19, 2013 • Bay Area, Featured, Government, Injustice, Justice Department, News Articles, Open Government, Policy, Politics and Government, Public Safety, San Francisco

    By Benjamin Todd Jealous The United States has five percent of the world’s people but 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. For the sake of our families and future we must do better. Our nation leads the world in the incarceration of our own citizens, both on a per capita basis and in terms...

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    Richmond Main Street Works to Revitalize Downtown

    by  • April 12, 2013 • Bay Area, Community Events, Cultural Events, Entertainment, Events, Featured, News Articles, Richmond News

    By Post Staff For nearly 12 years, The Richmond Main Street Initiative (RMSI) has been a catalyst for change in the city. The community-based nonprofit has revitalized downtown Richmond, offering community events and programs that celebrate the rich history of the community, such as the Music on the Main summer concert series. Under the...

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    Kitty Epstein’s Urban Affairs Award

    by  • April 12, 2013 • Article Archives, Bay Area, Featured, News Articles, Oakland News Articles

    Kitty Kelly Epstein receives Urban Activist Award from Vice President of SAGE Publications Michele Sordi at the national conference of Urban Affairs Association.

    Kitty Kelly Epstein, an Oakland activist, received the 2013 Marilyn Gittel Activist Scholar award last week when the Urban Affairs Association held its national conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Scholars from across the U.S. and many other countries, including Libya, South Africa, China, and Singapore presented research on topics ranging from...

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    New Film: “ENDGAME” for AIDS in Black America

    by  • April 10, 2013 • Featured

    By Jesse Brooks A new documentary, called “End Game: AIDS in Black America, will air 10 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10, on Public Broadcasting Network (PBS), by award-winning filmmaker Renata Simone. The film, in which this columnist played a part, takes viewers on an unprecedented two-hour exploration of one of the country’s most urgent,...

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    CHP OAKLAND OFFERS START SMART DRIVER SAFETY CLASS

    by  • April 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Education, Featured, Government

    The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is helping to educate teenaged drivers and their parents regarding safe driving practices through its Start Smart Program.  The Start Smart Program is a collaboration between the CHP, Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), parents and their teenage drivers.  Its goals include: (1) helping younger...

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    Christianity’s African Roots

    by  • April 4, 2013 • Academia, Africa, Africa Reations, Africa Related, African American, African American Art Gallery, African American History, African's in America, Church Calendar, Faith, Feature 2, Featured, Geneology, Science, Socialmedia

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    Christianity’s African Roots Nana Ekua-Hammond breaks down our relationship to the religion before American slavery and White Jesus pieces By Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email More Sharing Services ‘Baby Jesus and Three Wise Men’, by Clementine Hunter This Easter, over two billion Christians around the...

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    USA Today – Obama praises Calif. AG’s looks

    by  • April 4, 2013 • African American, African American History, Barak Obama, Beauty, Business, Daily Posts, Education, Energy, Entertainment, Environment, Feature 2, Featured, Information, Michelle Obama, Open Government, Politics and Government

    Obama praises Calif. AG’s looks Rich Pedroncelli, AP In this this May 10, 2012 file photo, California Attorney General Kamala Harris appears before an Assembly committee at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. by David Jackson, USA TODAY Published: 04/04/2013 05:40pm We can’t help but wonder what the first lady is going to think of...

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    Can a Black Girl Be the Next Steve Jobs?

    by  • April 3, 2013 • Academia, African American, Bay Area, Culture, Education, Featured, News Articles

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    Participants learn basic html with Black Girls Code’s Summer of Code in San Francisco on July 28, 2012. All Photos by Julianne Hing by Julianne Hing Tuesday, July 31 2012, 9:48 AM EST Tags: BlackGirlsCode, Science, Technology, Teens Aita Zulu, on her first try and on her first day with computer programming, made a website....

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    Bay Area to Celebrate the 80th Birthday of Dr. Nathan Hare

    by  • April 1, 2013 • Events, Featured

    Dr. Nathan Hare

    On April 9, Dr. Nathan Hare, The Father of Black Studies in America, will celebrate his 80th year on the planet. The Bay Area will celebrate with the esteemed sociologist and clinical psychologist on Saturday, April 13, 3-5pm. Tentative location is Geoffery’s Club, 14th and Franklin, downtown Oakland. For more information, please call 510-200-4164....

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    City Appoints New Department Heads

    by  • March 31, 2013 • City Government, Featured, Politics and Government

    San Leandro City Manager Chris Zapata has announced the promotion of staff members to lead the Community Development  and Public Works departments. Cynthia Battenberg, who has worked on the billion-dollar Kaiser Medical Center project and the ultrafast fiber optic project, Lit San Leandro, has been appointed Community Development Director. Debbie Pollart has been selected...

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    Africans In America

    by  • March 22, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, Vallejo News

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    Part 3 Propitiation honoring Ancestors According to the Odu Osa Meji, in the Yoruba belief system, Odu (female oracle) established all the sacred groves (places) and maintained secrets of the sacred shrines of the Orisas (belief of the Yoruba, divine system) after descent. Women were not excluded from performing rituals at any sacred grove....

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    Youth UpRising Hosts Arts Open House, March 29

    by  • March 22, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Youth Uprising at 8711 MacArthur Blvd. in East Oakland.

    In the wake of a year of unprecedented violence, which ultimately led to the murder of four Youth UpRising youth members, the agency is showcasing young artists who will display their artwork focused on community violence. The open house will be held Friday, March 29 from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Youth Uprising...

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    Babatunde Harrison, Journalist Griot in the Diaspora

    by  • March 15, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    The Ancestress, Alice Ewurafua Baoye Arthur, at home with her great grandchildren in Hayward: Anthony Adeyinka DaSilva, JR., (far Left), Miles DaSilva, next to the Ancestress, Christiana Folarinde DaSilva and Malik DaSilva. Photo by Kenneth Walker.

    Part II By Babatunde Harrison In the ancient African empires of West Africa, the Griot was the custodian of the histories and genealogies of the people of West Africa. Through epic songs and poetry, the Griot told and preserved the traditions and memories of ancient Mali, Songhai and Ghana.. Since the arrival of the...

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    Africans In America

    by  • March 15, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, News Group Publisher, Oakland News Articles, Rev. Hunter, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    A Veneration Ceremony often has dancing, singing ,drumming, and spiritual chants to honor the ancestors. A Yoruba Mythology saying:” As a spirit in heaven before taking a body, we each are given assignments tasks from our ancestors to achieve then we are sent to earth through selected parents. which leads to the chant - It is the errand of my ancestors that I run, or it is the path of my ancestors that I walk. Photos by Kayode Gbadebo and graphic design by Adam L. Turner

    Part II By Kayode Gbadebo According to historian John Ridpath, “Observers of traditional African culture, so inevitably influenced by Western style of thought and intellectual traditions, failed to understand and interpret the culture.” This may be because, according to writer John Bascom. “The Yoruba way of life is traditional, dating back well before the...

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    106-Year-Old Receives High School Diploma 88 Years Late

    by  • March 15, 2013 • Article Archives, Barak Obama, Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles

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    Reba Williams, a 106-year-old woman from Columbus, Ohio, is finally receiving her high school diploma. She never graduated from Mount Vernon High School even though she completed all 12 years. Apparently, she was being punished for being in “academic rebellion,” when she refused to read the final book assigned by her teacher during her...

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    “One Man’s Battle: An African American Journey”

    by  • March 15, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    The Africana and African American Studies and Friends of the Library group at Contra Costa College presented a book signing this week with Rufus Battle, author of “One Man’s Battle: An African American Journey.” The book, a tale of struggle and redemption, tells his story of living in a “sharecropper’s shack near a Louisiana...

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    Africans in America

    by  • March 14, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Special Interests Articles

    Babatunde Harrison, African Journalist Griot

    “There are not enough Griots to tell the stories of the brave men, women and children who lived through the pain and stench of the dungeon castle. This castle holds millions of intangible horror stories. And, annually, thousands  of descendants of the millions gone, return to pass through this dungeon  to imagine and relive...

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    Africans In America

    by  • March 8, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Elebiti (in green) and Egungun masquerader is being led from the temple beginning the procession. The man in Blue is the head of Egungun worshippers in the Ile-Ife city of Nigerian.

    Egungun Festival of Nigeria’s Yoruba Ancestors The Egungun is a secret society among the Yoruba people of Ibadan, Oyo, and Modakeke, Gbongan Osun State, Nigeria. The major Egungun festival takes place in June, when members of the society come to the market place and perform masked dances. The masks represent ancestral spirits. It is...

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    500 Attend African American Organizations Making Connections

    by  • March 1, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    From left to right: Congresswoman Barbara Lee, founding Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale, and Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson at the 2nd African American Organizations Making Connections at Laney College on Feb. 23. Photo credit: Reginald James.

    In celebration of Black History Month, Supervisor Keith Carson and community leaders held the African American Organizations Making Connections 2013 conference, “Strategies and Outcomes for Our Black Community,” Feb. 23 at Laney College in Oakland.  More than 500 people attended. “The Black community faces many challenges, including high unemployment, Black-on-Black violence and poor health...

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    Darlene Lawson, 75, Fought for Equal Education

    by  • February 23, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Darlene Lawson served on the Oakland Board of Education from 1983 to January 1993. Here she celebrates her second inauguration with five of her seven children: Loretta Little, Vida Byrd, Billie Wright, Annette Wright and Charlene Byrd.

    By Ken A. Epstein Businesswoman Darlene Ann Lawson-Scott, 75, who left a lasting impact on Oakland schools during two terms on the Board of Education, died on Jan 13. A fighter for equal education for flatland children and families, she was the first African American woman to be elected to the school board. Known...

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    African American Chamber of Commerce Honors City’s Black Leaders

    by  • February 22, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Featured, News Articles, San Francisco

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    By Carla Thomas The San Francisco Black Chamber of Commerce recently held an event to honor the city’s top African American civic leaders, department heads, commissioners and elected officials. Held on Jan. 25 at Yoshi’s Jazz Club, the celebration was led by Dr. Toye Moses and Chamber President Fred Jordan. “We want to honor...

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    Public Utilities Commission, African American Chamber Salute Linda Fadeke Richardson

    by  • February 22, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Featured, News Articles, San Francisco

    Commissioner Linda Richardson (center), President of the Treasure Island Development Authority with Dr. Caesar Churchwell (left), San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce Vice President and Harlan Kelly, General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Photo by Lance Burton.

    By Carla Thomas The San Public Utilities Commission and the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce are saluting Linda Fadeke Richardson, a champion of environmental justice, education, health and community revitalization for over 25 years. “Commissioner Richardson’s efforts have made the community a better place,” said Harlan Kelly, General Manager of the San...

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    Supervisor Carson Hosts “African American Organizations Making Connections”

    by  • February 15, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Keith Carson

    “Strategies and Outcomes for Our Black Community” is the theme of African American Organizations Making Connections 2013, a free event featuring panels and workshops for members of the Black community that will be held Saturday, Feb 23, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the gymnasium at Laney College, 900 Fallon St. in Oakland. The...

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    New Documentary “End Game: AIDS in Black America”

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, HIV, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    From left to right: Renatta Simone, producer, writer and director of End Game: HIV in Black America, Nel Davis and POST journalist Jesse Brooks. Nel and Brooks got a chance to tell their experience of being HIV positive in the film.

    By Jesse Brooks The public is invited to participate in a conversation at the Bay Area’s first public showing of PBS’s Frontline documentary “End Game: AIDS in Black America.” This documentary explores how politics, social factors and cultural factors allowed the AIDS epidemic to spread rapidly in the African American community over the past...

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    Larry Bryant, Campaign to End AIDS

    by  • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, Health, HIV, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Larry Bryant

    Larry Bryant (left), an advocate for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, is a straight Black man living with HIV. In 1986, he contracted HIV as an 18 year-old student at Norfolk State University. He is a member of the National Steering Committee for “Campaign to End AIDS,” founded in 2005 by Housing Works to serve...

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    From Mexico to Oakland to UC Berkeley Graduate

    by  • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, General Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Karely Maribel Ordaz Salto

    By Karely Maribel Ordaz Salto At the age of 21, I was the first in my family to ever attend and graduate from a university, receiving my Bachelor of Arts Degree in American Studies with an emphasis in Environment, Policy and Public Health from UC Berkeley. I was born in the small fishing and...

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    Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Makes History at Rose Parade

    by  • January 3, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles

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    Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. is the oldest Black Greek letter organization to ever participate in the Rose Parade in its 124-year history. The parade’s theme this year was “Oh the Places You’ll Go!” named in honor of the Dr. Seuss book. One of the book’s most famous quotes: “Congratulations! Today is your day....

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    African American Physicists to Receive Presidential Awards

    by  • December 28, 2012 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Post News Feature Story, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Dr. S. James Gates

    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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