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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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    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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    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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    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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    Looking Good, Ethiopian Eritrean Style

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

    Ethiopia

    By Ashley Chambers Berekte Yemane models her original handmade Ethiopian and Eritrean cultural garments with decorative patterns and embroidery that represent Ethiopian and Eritrean identity and national pride. These cultural fashions are worn for all celebratory occasions, including religious services, weddings, baptisms, holidays and birthdays. When attending church and during celebrations, women cover their...

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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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    Support for Death Penalty Declines

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

    Richard Dieter, executive director of the death penalty center.

    By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times Even as Californians voted to maintain the death penalty, the nation’s support for capital punishment continued to wane in 2012, with relatively few states performing executions. Only nine states executed inmates in 2012, and three-fourths of the executions occurred in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma and Mississippi, according to the...

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    Full Pardon for Wilmington 10

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

    Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue issued pardons this week to the Wilmington 10, a group wrongly convicted 40 years ago in a Civil Rights-era prosecution that led to accusations that the state was holding political prisoners. Perdue issued pardons of innocence Monday for the nine Black men and one white woman who received...

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    Ex-Police Officer for Gun Control

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

    Looking down the barrell of a gun

    OPINION By Gregory Taylor For the life of me, I just don’t understand the gun craze in America. There is a national psychosis when it comes to gun ownership. As an ex-police officer in a city where gratuitous murders have become unspectacular, I lament the fascination with a weapon whose invention and design is...

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    Mission District Receives Up to $30 Million to Improve Education

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

    Nancy Pelosi

    Mayor Edwin M. Lee and Superintendent Richard Carranza have announced that the U.S. Department of Education has selected San Francisco’s Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) to receive a five-year, up to $30 million Promise Neighborhoods implementation grant, one of the largest of the six awards granted in the nation. “The Promise Neighborhoods grants will...

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    Kimberley Colwell, First Lesbian Alameda Superior Court Judge

    by  • January 3, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, South County

    Kimberly E. Colwell

    Berkeley resident Kimberly E. Colwell received an unexpected surprise during the holidays. Governor Jerry Brown’s office called her Christmas Day to inform her she had been selected to fill a judicial vacancy. Colwell, 54, is believed to be the first out lesbian to be appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court and is only...

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    Demetrious Shaffer, Alameda County Fire Chief

    by  • January 3, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, South County

    Demetrious Shaffer

    The Alameda County Board of Supervisors has appointed Demetrious Shaffer as county Fire Chief. Shaffer has served as Interim Fire Chief since June, following former Fire Chief Sheldon Gilbert’s resignation. “We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Demetrious Shaffer, who we believe will be an outstanding fire chief for Alameda County,’’ said Nate...

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    Holiday Message

    by  • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Black Church Information, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Rev. Dr. W. Haziah Williams

    By Rev. Dr. W. Haziah Williams,1988 “The hopes and fears of all the years are met in Thee tonight.” This is a most insightful arrival of understanding the dilemma of reality. The words are more searing today than ever.  The hopes and the fears are not only met in the occasion but are mingled...

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    Bishop Flunder and City of Refuge Celebrate 21 Years of Ministry

    by  • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Bishop Yvette Flunder with longtime partner renown gospel singer Shirley Miller.

    By Camryn Crump Bishop Yvette Flunder recently  was awarded the “Heritage Award” at the 8th annual “Out Awards” in Las Vegas, an awards show celebrating the best Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) recording artists in music each year that have messages of inclusion, equality and creative achievements. The award comes on the heels...

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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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    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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    Crowdmapping Group Used Mobile Phones to Expose Kenyan Election Killings

    by  • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Ory Okolloh, the founder and executive director of Ushahidi, which crowdmapped the post-election violence in Kenya. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images.

    Three Kenyans – Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, Francis Kirimi Muthaura and Mohammed Hussein Ali – are appearing at the international criminal court in The Hague charged with crimes against humanity, after being exposed by youth using the web and mobile phones. The three Kenyans are accused of contributing to an estimated 1,300 deaths in violence...

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    Report: Tobacco Sales Focus on Youth, Low-Income Neighborhoods

    by  • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Feature 2, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Dr. Ron Chapman

    California Department of Public Health (CDPH) director and state health officer Dr. Ron Chapman has released the state’s first “State Health Officer’s Report on Tobacco Use and Promotion” providing new data related to cigarette consumption declines, and the millions of dollars and lives saved. The report also includes new data on illegal sales to...

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    2,000 Illegally Owned Weapons Seized

    by  • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Politics and Government, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Kamala D. Harris

    Over 2,000 firearms were seized this year from individuals legally barred from possessing them, including persons determined to be mentally unstable and those with active restraining orders, Attorney General Kamala D. Harris said this week. “California has clear laws determining who can possess firearms based on their threat to public safety,” said Harris. “Enforcing...

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    Berkeley Civil-Rights Scholar Releases New Book on Race

    by  • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    john a. powell

    UC News Center At a recent UC Berkeley book-launch event, sociologist Michael Omi described his colleague john a. powell as “two persons rolled into one” — “john the theoretician, who draws on a range of disciplines to rethink notions of race, racial identity and racism,” and “john the grounded and practical policy analyst.” Both...

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    Walgreen Pays $16.57 Million for Dumping Hazardous Wastes and Customer Information

    by  • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    District Attorney Nancy O’Malley.

    Alameda County Superior Court Judge Wynne Carvill has ordered the Illinois-based Walgreen Co. to pay $16.57 million as part of a settlement of a civil prosecution because its stores were illegally Dumping hazardous wastes and confidential customer medical information. The judgment is the culmination of a civil enforcement lawsuit filed in Alameda County in...

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    Spotlight on HIV/AIDS in “Many Women, One Voice” Documentary

    by  • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Health, HIV, Marin County News, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Cynthia Carey-Grant, “HIV is not so unique that we can’t survive it. I’m inspired by a legacy surviving slavery.”

    By Jesse Brooks Featuring women from across the country and from all walks of life speaking openly and candidly about HIV/AIDS, the documentary, “Many Women, One Voice; African American Women in HIV,” inspires women to take care of themselves. The film was designed to help  Black women talk about HIV, featuring personal reflections, thoughts...

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    Black Pilots Association Hosts Christmas Fundraiser

    by  • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Philanthropy, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    By Carla Thomas The Bay Area Black Pilots Association held its annual Christmas fundraiser banquet on Saturday, Dec. 8 at the Doubletree Hotel in the Berkeley Marina. “Once you get hooked on flying, there’s no turning back,” said BABPA President Greg Scott, who greeted nearly 100 people at the banquet. “We have a great...

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    Holiday Week at Crab Cove

    by  • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Crab Cove Visitor Center at Crown Beach in Alameda is holding a holiday week open house from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, Dec. 26 through Dec. 28. There will be special activities   each day, such as nature crafts, games, and interaction with the center’s snake and turtle. The daily schedule includes...

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    Allen Temple Hosts Tye Tribbett

    by  • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Church Events, Marin County News, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Allen Temple Baptist Church is hosting internationally renowned gospel artist, producer and minister Tye Tribbett for one night only, 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 27. Tribbett has produced four outstanding albums (“Live,” “Victory Live,” “Stand Out,” and ”Fresh”) and is coming to Allen Temple’s sanctuary at 8501 International Blvd. to minister  in Oakland. Tickets are...

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    New Presidents at Berkeley City and Merritt Colleges

    by  • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, Marin County News, News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Dr. Deborah Budd

    Dr. José M. Ortiz, Chancellor of the Peralta Community College District, has named Dr. Deborah Budd to lead Berkeley City College and Dr. Norma Ambriz-Galaviz to be the next president of Merritt College. Dr. Budd is currently interim president at Berkeley City, and Dr. Ambriz-Galaviz is vice president of instruction at Mission College. “Dr....

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