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    Rhythm Tap Hall of Fame Offers Tap Dance Workshops

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

    Celebrating 14 years in the Bay Area, Rhythm Tap Hall of Fame is offering traditional tap dance classes starting Feb. 9. The nonprofit organization promotes the lost art form, providing educational programs for youth, adults, and seniors, teaching the history of tap dancing through audio visual and tap instruction. The Hall of Fame has...

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    Wells Fargo Donates $3 Million to UNCF

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, News Articles, San Francisco

    Gigi Dixon, senior vice president, director of National Partnerships for Wells Fargo.

    Wells Fargo & Company has expanded its support for United Negro College Fund (UNCF), the nation’s largest minority education organization, investing $3 million to help more African American students attend and graduate from college. Wells Fargo presented UNCF with a check during the 34th edition of UNCF “An Evening of Stars,” the annual television...

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    Councilman Booze to Receive NAACP Peace & Freedom Award

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco

    Cocky Booze

    The Richmond Branch of the NACCP has announced that an award established to recognize individuals demonstrating acts of non-violence will go to Councilman Corky Booze (right), who responded non-violently to a physical attack. The Richmond NAACP and the other members of the Community Mobilization Leadership Coalition have officially adopted this award that will become...

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    Chevron Program Funds $1 Million for 960 Classroom Projects

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Education, Richmond News, San Francisco

    Andrea Bailey, community engagement manager at Chevron.

    Chevron has announced that its 2012 Fuel Your School program has paid out $958,739, benefitting 960 local public school classroom projects and impacting 111,925 students in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Through the Fuel Your School program, teachers at 344 public schools in Alameda and Contra Costa counties received classroom resources. Linda Townsend Bryson,...

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    Dr. King’s Letter From Birmingham Jail Still Speaks to Us

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sit in Birmingham jail in 1963.

    Commentary By Kia Croom On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., along with 53 members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), launched the Birmingham Campaign— to put economic pressure on local merchants and government through a series of non-violent protests during the Easter...

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    Is Oakland Wasting Money on Bratton?

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Barak Obama, Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Politics and Government, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Bill Bratton

    By Kitty Kelly Epstein In light of Oakland’s increase in homicides in 2012, the Oakland city administrator is asking the City Council to hire as a consultant William Bratton, who brought “stop and frisk” to New York and Los Angeles and who argues that some form of the policy is necessary in all cities....

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    Obama’s Gun Initiatives

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Barak Obama, Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    From left to right: Hinna Zeejah, 8, Taejah Goode, 10, Julia Stokes, 11, and Grant Fritz, 8, who wrote letters to President Barack Obama about the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., watch as Obama signs executive orders to reduce gun violence, Wednesday, Jan. 16, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak).

    Courtesy of Reuters President Barack Obama proposed a new assault weap-ons ban and mandatory back- ground checks for all gun buyers this week as he tried to channel national outrage over the Newtown school massacre into the biggest U.S. gun-con- trol push in decades. He is taking 23 executive actions aimed at curbing gun...

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    Laid Off Teacher Fights to Save Home

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, FAME, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Gaylynne Hudson and supporters celebrate in front of the Wells Fargo Bank branch on Fruitvale Avenue in Oakland after learning the sale of her home has been postponed. Back Row (L to R) Gaylynne Hudson and Ann Colten. Front Row (L to R) Barbara Jean Knox, Marianne Etlinger and Dan Spalding.

    By Danielle Savage Gaylynne Hudson, a laid off teacher who lives in Oakland, was facing immediate foreclosure of her home. With the help of friends who marched into Wells Fargo Bank, she was able to head off the auction of her house, winning a short-term extension. She has been struggling to avert foreclosure on...

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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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    Santa Rita Jail Holds 1,000 Immigrants Per Year for ICE

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    By J. Douglas Allen Taylor While the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department is not required by federal law to hold suspected immigration law violators for pickup by federal immigration authorities under the “Secure Communities” program, the county Board of Supervisors has no power to force the sheriff to stop the practice. That was the general...

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    We Have Come a Long Way But Still Have Far to Go

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

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    By Jesse Jackson When President Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, his hand will rest not only on President Abraham Lincoln’s Bible, but on Dr. Martin Luther King’s, too. As the ceremony falls on the federal holiday celebrating Dr. King’s birth, the civil rights leader would no doubt be proud as...

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    Debutantes Delighted at Links’ Cotillion SF Ball

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    (Top Row, L-R): Aria Charles, Ariana Donaville, McKenzie Oldham, Keisha May, Link Diane Harris-Wilson, Loren Lassiter, Amoni Brown, Ariell Bostick, Daija Stafford, Simone Goldman, Lauren Bellow; (2nd Row L-R) Loren Lassiter, Waverlee Craig, Aria Charles, Diane Harris-Wilson, Tamara Jefferson, Loren Lassiter, Tatiana Hobson, Ivoryana Brown, Ariana Donaville, Justice Moore, Maya Williams; (3rd Row L-R): Tamara Jefferson, Maia Tillman, (group photo -Front Row L-R Ariana Donaville, Tamara Jefferson, Ariell Bostick, Jacquelynn May, Lauren Bellow, Maya Williams, Maia Tillman, Aria Charles; (Middle Row L-R): Joseph Jackson, Michael Sneed, Jr., Winston Hill, DeShawn Brown, Justice Dorsey-Moore, Tatiana Hobson, Amoni Brown, Waverlee Craig, Ivory White, Mckenzie Oldham, Jelani Smith, Andrew Abrams; (Third Row L-R): Andrew Daniels, Alex Guillory, Alexander Estes, Sasha Wallace, Rachel Buckner, Loren Lassiter, Daija Stafford, Ivoryanna Brown, Simone Goldman, Ernest McMurry, Colin Leach, Joseph Villa, Kyle Hogg, Kyle Mouton ; (Top Row L-R): Joshua Norman, Harold Terrell, Shaka Gant-Kendricks, Spencer Hollie, Keiland Callum, Joseph Jackson, Tre Clayton) Rachel Buckner, Simone Goldman, Justice Moore ; (Bottom Row L-R): Link Diane Harris-Wilson, Keisha May, Link Diane Harris-Wilson, Maia Tillman, Diane Harris-Wilson, Sasha Wallace, Ivoryana Brown, Ivory White Link Diane Harris-Wilson, Ivory White, Tatiana Hobson, Sasha Wallace, Simone Goldman, Waverlee Craig, Tamara Jefferson, Daija Stafford, Aria Charles, Rachel Buckner, Ivoryana Brown. (Photos and collage by Adam L. Turner.)

    The Oakland Bay Area Chapter of Links, Inc. sponsored this year’s 56th Cotillion, Dec. 22 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis Hotel, featuring 20 debutantes and their escorts who made their debuts to nearly 800 family members and guests at this gala holiday ball, which is now a Bay Area tradition. The ceremony was...

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    Darrell Carl Burton, 68

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Darrell Carl Burton

    Darrell Carl Burton, a former PG&E employee and a mentor to children, died Wednesday, Jan. 9. He was 68. Burton graduated in 1963 from Lincoln High School in Port Arthur, Texas and joined the U.S. Army, becoming a drill sergeant. After leaving the military in 1968, he relocated to Alameda where he attended Alameda...

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    Classical Star Performs at East Oakland Leadership Academy

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    East Oakland Leadership Academy students greeted the artists after the performance. From left to right: Miracle Sheperd, Sandra Rivers (pianist), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (violist, violinist), Kris Rivas, Rovijon Davis, and Lizeth Castillo-Simon.

    About 50 middle school students from the East Oakland Leadership Academy had the opportunity last week to hear a performance by classical violinist and violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, who the L.A. Times called, “A Face to Watch,” hosted by Four Seasons Arts. Ngwenyama played pieces for the students, discussed the viola and violin and answered...

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    Oakland Youth Orchestra’s Winter Concert

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Oakland Youth Orchestra

    The award-winning Oakland Youth Orchestra is opening its season with a winter concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27 at Holy Names University in Oakland. The free winter concert follows on the heels of the orchestra’s participation in the Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival, known as the “Bay of Hope,” at 3 p.m. on...

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    Peralta’s $250,000 Anonymous Gift

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Romeo Garcia, the new executive director of the Peralta Colleges Foundation is all smiles as ghe holds a check for $250,000.

    Special to the Post It was Jan. 3, the first day back from a week off for the holidays for Romeo Garcia, the new executive director of the Peralta Colleges Foundation, Going through his mail, Garcia opened an envelope from the San Francisco Foundation that contained a check for $250,000. He was astonished. Peralta...

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    Guitarist Calvin Keys’ Kinder, Jam Sessions

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, SECTIONS, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Guitarist Calvin Keys. Photo by John Goyer.

    By Lee Hildebrand There are two types of jazz jam sessions: the ones where the host calls out tunes in uncommon keys with difficult chord changes and tempos faster than a speeding bullet, the purpose being to discourage less-experienced players unable to rise to the challenge, and others where the host actually encourages newcomers....

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    Yvonne Lawrence Offers Nonprofits Creative Ways to Fundraise

    by  • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Philanthropy, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Yvonne Lawrence

    By Ashley Chambers In an age of diminished resources, church and nonprofit organizations face challenges when they seek to generate money to sustain services and programs. However, entrepreneur Yvonne Lawrence is optimistic that agencies and churches can find solutions to their economic struggles. An independent business owner, Lawrence has been in the industry of...

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    Black Women Celebrate 29 Years of “Stirring the Waters”

    by  • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, Feature 2, Health, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Claire Cullen Mack

    Black Women Stirring the Waters, a Black women’s discussion group, will meet in Oakland at 1850 Alice St., Sunday, Jan. 20 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. for its 29th year of exploring issues and concerns of the Black community. For more information contact Carole Davis Kennerly at carolekennerly@sbcglobal.net. Claire Cullen Mack, a  San...

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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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    Nigerian University Announces Alleged Cure for HIV/Aids

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

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    Professor Isaiah Ibeh of the University of Benin in Nigeria this week announced the development of a new drug that can allegedly “cure” HIV and AIDS. Ibeh, dean of the School of Basic Medical Sciences of the university, told reporters in Benin that the herbal drug had undergone “series of successful tests.” “We are...

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    Oakland “Flashmob Dance” in Solidarity with Native Rights

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

    Round dance participants holding flag of Blackfoot Nation.

    The Idle No More movement for indigenous civil rights and environmental protection is quickly spreading across Canada, gaining support from groups in Oakland and across the U.S. and around the world. Last Saturday afternoon, supporters from around the Bay Area gathered for a “Flashmob Round Dance” in solidarity with Idle No More at Frank...

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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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    UCSF Cancer Center Awarded $36 Million Grant

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

    Frank McCormick, PhD,

    By Elizabeth Fernandez, UCSF The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded the UC San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center a $36 million to support cutting-edge research programs and clinical trials over five years. The highly competitive funding, awarded in recognition of UCSF’s excellence in laboratory, clinical and population-based research, will fund administrative...

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    Obama Eases Door Open for Immigrants

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

    Barack Obama

    By Brian Bennett, Sacramento Bee Undocumented immigrants who are immediate relatives of American citizens will have an easier path to permanent residency under a new Obama administration rule that could affect as many as 1 million of the estimated 11 million people unlawfully in the United States. The rule issued by the Department of...

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    Halt in Inmate Releases Sought

    by  • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco

    By Denny Walsh and Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Claiming that the state has made substantial progress in solving its prison overcrowding problem, California officials asked a federal court this week to dismiss its requirements for huge reductions in inmate populations. Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration, filing court documents just two hours before the court-ordered deadline...

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    Jennifer Holliday to Headline Oakland Concert

    by  • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, SECTIONS, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Jennifer Holliday

    By Lee Hildebrand Versatility is one of Jennifer Holliday’s hallmarks. The Riverside, Texas-born, Atlanta-based singer has performed gospel music, R&B, jazz, pop and, of course, songs from the musical theater. Her 1982 tour de force treatment of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from the original Broadway production of “Dreamgirls,” in which...

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    House GOP Blocks Violence Against Women Act

    by  • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, Special Interests Articles

    Patty Murray

    The House did not vote in its waning hours on reauthorizing of the Violence Against Women Act, legislation opposed by many key Republicans because it would have extended domestic violence protection to lesbians and transgender individuals, in addition to undocumented immigrants and Native American women. The decision led to a swift rebuke from one...

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    Local Leaders Back Obama’s Call to Reduce Gun Violence

    by  • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, San Francisco

    Malia Cohen

    By Danielle Savage San Francisco and Bay Area elected officials are enthusiastically backing President Obama’s  call for strengthened gun controls in the wake of continuing national outrage over the massacre last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. “I definitely applaud (the White House’s efforts). I think they are moving in the...

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    Local Leaders Back Obama’s Call to Reduce Gun Violence

    by  • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Politics and Government, Richmond News, San Francisco

    Corky Booze

    By Danielle Savage Richmond and other Bay Area elected officials are rallying behind President Obama’s call for strengthened gun controls in the wake of continuing national outrage over the massacre last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Acting for the Obama administration, Vice President Joe Biden is supervising a group deliberating...

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    Coalition Backs Kathleen Sullivan to Fill Gary Bell’s Council Seat

    by  • January 10, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco

    Gary Bell

    The Community Mobilization Leadership Coalition, a group of Richmond’s African American organizations, met on Wednesday, Jan. 9 to endorse a community leader to be appointed to replace Gary Bell, Richmond City Councilmember-elect, who unfortunately will not be able to take his City Council seat because of a medical condition. The group’s endorsement went to...

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    Mobile Apps Rules for Privacy

    by  • January 10, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco

    Kamala Harris 1

    Attorney General Kamala D. Harris this week issued recommendations for mobile application (app) developers and the mobile industry to safeguard consumer privacy. The report provides guidance on developing strong privacy practices, translating these practices into mobile-friendly policies, and coordinating with mobile industry actors to promote comprehensive transparency. “Californians want to know what personal information...

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    Dr. Muntu Davis Leads HIV/AIDS Training

    by  • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Dr. Muntu Davis

    Dr. Muntu Davis will lead a free interactive training on HIV testing, linkage to care and education measurement, 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, Jan. 11 at Cal Prep, 2811 Adeline St. in Oakland. Dr. Davis is Health Officer for Alameda County Public Health Department. The goals of the training series are to increase community...

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    Artist Thomas Blackshear’s Collections Achieve International Acclaim

    by  • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Thomas Blackshear, II, at one of his Bay Area appearances signing his popular figurines, which are multi-dimensional portraits of Black Americans. He is seen here with Post reporter Jesse Brooks at Hallmark in San Leandro recently.

    By Jesse Brooks Internationally acclaimed artist Thomas Blackshear, II, known for his authentic depictions of African Americans. But he says when he set out to create a collection of figurines that would portray the beauty, elegance and dignity of African Americans, but it never crossed his mind that he would have one of the...

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    Attorney General Sues Companies for Gas Station Environmental Pollution

    by  • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Kamala D. Harris

    Attorney General Kamala D. Harris this week filed a civil lawsuit against Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips for allegedly violating state law by failing to properly inspect and maintain underground tanks used to store gasoline for retail sale at more than 560 gas stations in California. “The state’s hazardous waste laws help protect our residents...

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    Oakland Honors Gladys Green at “In the Name of Love” Concert

    by  • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, San Francisco, SECTIONS, Uncategorized

    Gladys Green

    CBS Channel 5 Anchor Dana King will present the City of Oakland Citizen Humanitarian Award to Gladys Green for her outstanding work on behalf of the Oakland community at the “In the Name of Love” Musical Tribute honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 19, 7 p.m., at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. The...

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    15-Year-Old Civil Rights Heroine Inspires New Play

    by  • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, Special Interests Articles

    By David Scott Playwright Bianca Sams is presenting ‘’Battle Cry,’’ a play based on the life of little known civil rights heroine Claudette Colvin. At the age of 15 in the Deep South, Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a Montgomery Alabama bus, nine months prior to the...

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    Youth Program Fights to Save its Home, Former Marcus Garvey Landmark

    by  • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Bishop J.E. Watkins

    By Carla Thomas A digital arts youth program is in danger of closing in the wake of the sale of the building where it is located, historic Liberty Hall at 1485 8th St. in West Oakland. Overcomers With Hope 2nd Chance Digital Arts Media Program, which trains youth ages 16 to 21 in television...

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