State Senator Loni Hancock (D-Oakland) received a perfect score on issues relating to workers’ rights and worker protection issues from the California Labor Federation, based on her votes on 33 bills that that were important to organized labor during 2011.“We salute Senator Hancock’s unwavering commitment to the California labor movement’s agenda of creating better...
Read more →By Ken A. Epstein While $100,000 may seem like a small amount of money in the realm of city and state budgets, those funds could mean a job, an opportunity for something better, for some young people who have caught very few breaks in life.Yet time is running out for the City of Oakland...
Read more →By William G. McCray, III The Church Of God In Christ is coming to Northern California for its annual leadership conference, the first time in history that the 100 plus year old organization will meet in California’s capital of Sacramento. All of the denomination’s leaders, elected and appointed, will attend the weeklong sessions to...
Read more →By Kia Croom George L. Livingston, the first African-American elected mayor in the city of Richmond, died at the age of 78 after a long battle with diabetes. He died Jan. 7 at Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo. In celebration of his life and to honor the King Holiday, the Livingston family announced...
Read more →Most people today take for granted the commemoration of the Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr., national holiday. But the truth is that the recognition of the struggle for human rights and racial justice has always been hard fought in this country.Soon after Dr. King was shot down by an assassin on April 4, 1968,...
Read more →By Post Staff The Alameda Connection led by Willie McCray maintains the friendships of a group of men who grew up together in the housing projects in Alameda. “The group collectively has known each other since kindergarten. We are like a family, that’s how we grew up, and that is how we will stay,”...
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