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    Canada’s ‘Idle No More’ Movement Spreads Like Wildfire

    by  • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, General Articles, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, San Francisco, South County

    Over 2,000 demonstrators in Canada, part of a growing grassroots First Nations movement called “Idle No More,” marched on Dec. 21 through the streets of Ottawa to Parliament Hill to defend treaty rights that protect their lands and waterways.

    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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    Pastor Small and First Lady Celebrate 54th Anniversary

    by  • December 14, 2012 • Article Archives, Bay Area, Featured, General Articles, Marin County News

    Top from left: Ronnie Small, Associated Pastor Marcus Small. Bottom: First Lady Evelyn and Pastor Fred Small. Photos by Godfrey Lee.

    By Godfrey Lee People’s Inter-cities Fellowship Church celebrated the 54th anniversary of Pastor Fred Small’s ministry Sunday, Dec. 9. Church members, friends and visiting ministers packed the church to celebrate the event. Carol Randle recognized First Lady Evelyn Small for being a good wife to Pastor Small and as a wonderful role model for...

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    Nigerian Oil Tycoon Becomes World’s Richest Black Woman

    by  • December 10, 2012 • Bay Area, News Articles, NIGERIAN, Richmond News

    Folorunsho Alakija

    Two weeks ago, Folorunsho Alakija, put her name on the world map by joining the billionaire’s boys’ club in Africa. With a wealth estimated to be at about $3.3 billion, Alakija has officially dethroned America’s entertainment icon, Oprah Winfrey, as the richest black woman in the world. Winfrey, previously the only Black woman in...

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    Still Sounding the Alarm on African American AIDS State of Emergency

    by  • November 30, 2012 • Africans in America, Bay Area, General Articles, HIV, Oakland News Articles, Special Interests Articles

    The Bay Area Regional African American State of Emergency Coalition (BARAASEC), talked to Board of Supervisors. From left to right: Camryn Crump, Pamela Casey-Aziz, Loren Jones; Supervisor Wilma Chan; Gigi Crowder; Gloria Crowell-Cox, Dr. Neena Murgai (Alameda County Office of AIDS Surveillance), Supervisor Kieth Carson, Dr. Muntu Davis (Alameda county’s Health officer), Georgia Schreiber (Alameda County Office of AIDS linkage to care coordinator), Omar Bagani, Charlie Wilson, Jesse Brooks (BARAASEC’s Co-chair).

    By Camryn Crump The Bay Area Regional African American State of Emergency Coalition, BARAASEC, along with Dr. Muntu Davis of Oakland, are sounding the alarm concerning disproportionate HIV transmissions in Alameda County. On Nov. 19, BARAASEC approached the Alameda Board of Supervisors, providing an update on how the coalition is fulfilling its mission to...

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    Singer Charlene Moore’s Birthday Celebration at 57th Street Gallery

    by  • November 16, 2012 • Bay Area, Entertainment, Featured, SECTIONS, Special Interests Articles

    Charlene Moore

    By Camryn Crump Bay Area gospel musician, singer and songwriter Charlene Moore celebrated her 61rst birthday on Friday, Nov. 2 by treating family, friends and fans to a night of her sultry, soulful storytelling voice and skilled piano playing. Appearing at Floyd Pellom’s 57th Street Gallery in Oakland, Moore quickly had the crowd, hand...

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    Warfield, Chris Hanson, Alameda County Teachers of the Year

    by  • November 16, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, Featured, News Articles, Oakland News Articles

    Chris Hanson

    I’Asha Warfield, representing Oakland Unified School District, and Chris Hanson, representing Alameda Unified School District, recently won this year’s Alameda County Teacher of the Year awards. Among the teachers who received teacher of the year recognition from individual school districts in the county were the following: Alameda County Office of Education: Kim Boerner, Quest...

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    YMCA of the East Bay Honors Volunteers of the Year

    by  • November 16, 2012 • Bay Area, Education, Featured, Special Interests Articles

    Chesna Pokharel

    The YMCA of the East Bay recently hosted its 133rd annual meeting and volunteer recognition ceremony, celebrating its extraordinary volunteers who they see as vital partners with the YMCA’s cause:  to strengthen the foundation of the community. “Without volunteer support, the Y would not have the resources to nurture and develop youth, promote healthy...

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    Frenzied Sending on State Initiatives

    by  • November 10, 2012 • Bay Area, Featured, News Articles

    By Lance Williams, California Watch Molly Munger donated $44.1 million to pass Proposition 38, a measure to raise taxes for public education. The initiative failed. Multimillionaire activists, big labor unions and major corporations combined to pump more than $363 million into political fights over 11 propositions on Tuesday’s state ballot, a California Watch analysis...

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    Council President Reid Kicks Off Affordable Housing Project

    by  • November 2, 2012 • Bay Area, Featured, Oakland News Articles, Politics and Government, Special Interests Articles

    By Carla Thomas Oakland City Council President Larry Reid held a celebration Oct. 24 at the corner of McArthur and Durant streets in East Oakland, as a demolition team knocked down an old Giant Burger fast food franchise to make room for Oakland 34, a new housing development for seniors. The development will include...

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    National and World Affairs Forum

    by  • October 26, 2012 • Bay Area, Featured

    Members of the public are invited to participate in Engage in discussions of topics of interest in today’s world. The moderated discussions will be held from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the San Leandro Senior Community Center,13909 East 14th St. in San Leandro. Forum topics include: “The Media: Its Role in the Presidential...

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    McClymonds Warriors Pride Day

    by  • October 26, 2012 • Bay Area, Entertainment, Featured, Oakland News Articles

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    McClymonds students and alumni celebrated Warrior Pride Day of their Homecoming Week on Wednesday, Oct. 24, with educational sessions on sports legacies and the historic background of the school and West Oakland. Students learned the story of the Black migration to West Oakland and talked to former Mack athletes, including Olympian gold medalist Jim...

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    Ritterman: Measure N Good for Kids and Good for Richmond

    by  • October 26, 2012 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Featured

    By Jeff Ritterman Councilmembers Nat Bates and Corky Booze, BAPAC, the Richmond chapters of the NAACP and BWOPA, several African American clergy, two popular African American doctors and Willie Brown have all urged Richmond residents to vote against Measure N, the Richmond Soda Tax. I believe that they are terribly misinformed and that following...

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    The Leadership Institute at Allen Temple Held Inaugural J. Alfred Smith Sr. Lecture Series

    by  • October 26, 2012 • Featured, Oakland News Articles

    From left to right: Rev. Bernestine Smith, J. Alfred Smith Sr. , Dr. Brenda Guests, Rev. Dr. Allan Aubrey Boesak, Rev. Desmond Hoffmeister Former General Secretary, South African Baptist, Pastor Dante Quick. Photo by Stephen V. Brooks Photography, svbrooksphoto@aol.com

    The Leadership Institute at Allen Temple held their Inaugural J. Alfred Smith Sr. Lecture Series on Saturday, October 13 at the Allen Temple Family Life Center in Oakland. The keynote speaker for this historic event was South African political activist, Reverend Dr. Allan Boesak, author of the recent book, “Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism...

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    Chevron’s Fuel Your School Program

    by  • October 19, 2012 • Education, Featured, General Articles

    By Greg Lydon A happy group of second grade students at Peres Elementary School in Richmond received school materials through Chevron’s Fuel Your School program on Tuesday, Oct. 16. Townsend Bryson’s classroom lit up as the project materials were presented to the students for the first time. The gift is part of an innovative...

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    Oakland’s Newest Sister City – Bauchi, Nigeria

    by  • October 19, 2012 • Bay Area, Featured, News Articles, NIGERIAN, Oakland News Articles

    City Councilmember Desley Brooks (left) and Mallam Isa Yuguda (right), Governor of Bauchi State in Nigeria sign the sister city agreement as the Oakland Bauchi Sister City Liazon, Marcel Uzegbu (far right) applauds the occasion, promoting cultural, social, and economic exchanges between the two cities. Photo by Adam L. Turner.

    City Councilmember Desley Brooks and Mallam Isa Yuguda, Governor of Bauchi State, Nigeria, this week signed a sister city agreement to promote cultural, social and economic exchanges between Bauchi City and Oakland. The signing makes the Nigerian city Oakland’s tenth sister city. The agreement was signed in the Council Chambers at Oakland City Hall...

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    The Church of Pentecost Women’s Ministry of the Oakland District

    by  • October 19, 2012 • Article Archives, Bay Area, Black Church Information, Featured

    Pentacost

    The Church of Pentecost Women’s Ministry of the Oakland District held their Annual District Convention on October 10-14, 2012 at The Church of Pentecost Oakland District on 4519 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way under Pastor Jehu Gyimah. The main speaker was Deaconess Ruth Delaquiz of Houston, Texas with the theme “The Excellent Way of...

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    Chevron Corp Fails to Block $18 Billion Ecuador Judgment

    by  • October 12, 2012 • Article Archives, Bay Area, General Articles, San Francisco, Special Interests Articles

    Environmentalist Donald Moncayo shows his glove after conducting a test made on an affected field in Lago Agrio, Ecuador in this January 25, 2011. REUTERS/Guillermo Granja/Files

    By Terry Baynes and Jonathan Stempel, Reuters Chevron Corp this week lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to block an $18.2 billion judgment against it in Ecuador in a case over pollution in the Amazon jungle. The Supreme Court did not give any explanation for its decision, which rejected Chevron’s appeal of a lower...

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    Mervyn Dymally, 86, Calif.’s Only Black Lt. Governor

    by  • October 12, 2012 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Obituary

    Mervyn M. Dymally

    Mervyn Dymally, the history-making California assemblyman, senator and lieutenant governor who also served in Congress for more than a decade, has died at age 86. Representing Compton, Dymally was the state’s first foreign-born Black assemblyman in 1962, its first black state senator in 1966 and the first and only black lieutenant governor in 1974....

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    Black Cowboy Association Parade and Festival

    by  • October 11, 2012 • Bay Area, Entertainment, Featured, Oakland News Articles, Special Interests Articles

    Elijha McAlister with son and wife and horse Prince Diego,

    By Katy Trumbull Autumn kicked off with a boot-stompin’ good time at the 38th annual Oakland Black Cowboy Association Parade and Festival  Saturday, Oct. 6 at  DeFremery Park in West Oakland. Celebrated on the first Saturday in October since Lonnie Scoggins, Sr., founded the event in 1974, the Oakland Black Cowboy Association (O.B.C.A.) Parade...

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    Mindblown Labs, African-American Tech Start-up

    by  • October 5, 2012 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Education, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Team memebers of Mindblown Labs, from left to right: Kilimanjaro Robbs, Trevin York, Keegan Stone, Cherise Wilson, Tracy Moore II, and Jason Young.

    Mindblown Labs, a new education technology start-up, has launched an online Kickstarter campaign to raise at least $60,000 to launch a new mobile game, Mindblown Life. Mindblown Life is a mobile social game that combines life-simulation elements and edgy humor to help young adults develop money management and financial literacy skills. Mindblown Life puts...

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    First All-African American Mercedes Benz Fashion Week

    by  • October 5, 2012 • Africans in America, Article Archives, General Articles, Special Interests Articles

    Nina Skarra (left) and Monique Tatum, CEO of Beautiful Planning & PR.

    By Ashley Chambers For the first time in the history of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Tai Chunn and his company MVC Management Productions led an all African American production team in the Nina Skarra Spring 2013 runway show. Presented at the Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall in New York Sept. 8, the show was...

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    Black Panther Party’s 46th Anniversary Set at City Hall

    by  • October 5, 2012 • Africans in America, Article Archives, Entertainment, Oakland News Articles, Post News Feature Story

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    The 46th anniversary of the Black Panther Party will be celebrated from noon to 3 pm. Saturday, Oct. 13 in Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall in downtown Oakland, sponsored by the Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther Party. Following the outdoor celebration, the event will continue from 3 p.m. to 7...

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    Chevron Seeks Grant Proposals

    by  • September 28, 2012 • Featured

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    Chevron has announced  opportunities to submit proposals for grants for an Economic Self-Sufficiency grant program and an  Energy for Learning program. Chevron may award up to five grants through each program. The total amount available to be awarded is $1 million –about $500,000 for each program. Last year’s grants resulted in investments in vocational...

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    Shocking Silence on Lives Cut Short

    by  • September 28, 2012 • Article Archives, Featured

    By Jesse Jackson The silence is deafening. Last week, the New York Times reported a horrifying measure of America’s shame. Life expectancy for white women without a high school degree had decreased by five years since 1990, according to a study in Health Affairs. Five years. The least-educated white men lost three years in...

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    Colleges Get $15 Million Jobs Grant

    by  • September 28, 2012 • Education, Featured, Oakland News Articles

    Dr. Elñora Webb, Laney College President

    The Peralta Community College District is part of an East Bay Consortium of colleges led by Los Medanos College from the Contra Costa Community College District that was awarded a $14.9 million grant this week from the Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Initiative. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced...

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    Karen Davis Takes First Place in Toastmasters Contest

    by  • September 28, 2012 • Featured, Oakland News Articles

    Toastmasters

    Karen Davis, a local entrepreneur and president of ARPB Toastmasters, recently won first place in the Evaluation division of Toastmasters District 57, Area D30 Evaluation and Humorous Speech contest. The contest was held in Oakland at the EBMUD corporate offices. The annual Evaluation and Humorous Speech contests feature winners from several local clubs.   Davis...

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    Keija Minor Named Brides Editor-In-Chief

    by  • September 28, 2012 • Africans in America, Article Archives, Barak Obama, Entertainment, General Articles, News Articles

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    By Julee Wilson Huffington Post Keija Minor has been named the editor-in-chief of Brides, succeeding Anne Fulenwider, making her the first person of color, after 103 years, to ever hold the title at a Condé Nast Publications (CNP) magazine. Minor’s new appointment is major news. CNP is a  privately owned company that produces 18...

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    Willie Brown Speaks to Faith Leaders

    by  • September 22, 2012 • Africans in America, Faith, Featured, News Articles, Politics and Government, Richmond News

    Willie L. Brown, Jr.

    By Sabrina Saunders, Executive Direcetor, One Accord Project Willie L. Brown, Jr., former California Assembly speaker and two-term San Francisco mayor, delivered a keynote address to Richmond’s African-American faith and community leaders, urging a strong election day turnout to return President Obama to the White House, restore local Black political leadership to Richmond and...

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    Zimbabwean-Born Businessman Pays $6.4M to Send African Students to Morehouse

    by  • September 21, 2012 • Black Church Information, Featured, News Articles, Philanthropy

    Some of the Morehouse Higher Life Foundation international student scholars (wearing the burgundy t-shirts) at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Courtesy of Morehouse College.

    By Kunbi Tinuoye For 17-year-old Abel Gumbo, things couldn’t be better. Only a few months ago he was among more than a thousand students at a high school in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Today he is rubbing shoulders with future leaders at Atlanta’s Morehouse College. Gumbo is one of 10 students from Africa who...

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    Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Turns 40

    by  • September 14, 2012 • Church Events, Featured, Richmond News

    Pastor Kamal Hassan (left) of Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church and Pastor J. Alfred Smith Jr. of Allen Temple Baptist Church. Photo by Joe L. Fisher, Black American Political Action Committee (BAPAC).

    By Kia Croom Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church celebrated 40 years of Christian service and ministry Saturday, Sept. 8 at the DoubleTree Inn in American Canyon. The theme of the event was taken from Ephesians 4:3-4; “One heart, one mind, one spirit – Lord make us one.” Rev. Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Jr. from Allen...

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    Some African Americans Want Sheriff Mirkarimi to Keep His Job

    by  • September 1, 2012 • Africans in America, San Francisco

    By Post StaffThough the San Francisco Ethnics Commission found former Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi had committed official misconduct, the commission gave no recommendation as to whether he should be removed from office. The decision on Mirkarimi’s future now rests with the Board of Supervisors. The sheriff needs the votes of three supervisors to remain in...

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    Hyers Sisters, Opera Singers Who Produced Civil Rights Musicals

    by  • September 1, 2012 • Hattitude Counts, News Articles, NIGERIAN, Oakland News Articles

    Hyers Sisters, African American opera singers in the Nineteenth Century.

    Singer-filmmaker Susheel Bibbs has revealed new research about the Hyers Sisters, African American opera singers in the Nineteenth Century.Her work will lead to a new PBS film documentary and live concert entitled “Voices for Freedom.” While nearly forgotten after their deaths, sisters Anna and Emma Hyers were opera prodigies who toured the US from...

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