Jeff Meyer, CEO of Northern California Blood Services. The American Red Cross Northern California Blood Services Region is set to begin using an automated blood collection system – called ALYX – at its Oakland Blood Donation Center. The ALYX Component Collection System ensures a steady and continuous blood supply for local patients by collecting...

Photo of: Melanie L. Campbell The slayings of Trayvon Martin and other innocent teens were foremost on the hearts and minds of nearly 400 Black women from across the country that assembled recently in Washington, D.C. for the Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) inaugural National Women of Power Summit, three days of down-to-earth discussions “Amplifying...

  Photo of: Barbara Lee Oakland will receive a $1.1 million grant from the federal Department of Health and Human Services to support the city’s Head Start Program – a comprehensive child development program that fosters social skills and school readiness for low-income children between the ages of three and five. The Oakland Head...

USC quarterback Matt Barkley is going to Haiti this summer on a volunteer mission to help build houses, and he’s bringing 14 other USC Trojans with him. Barkley, an experienced foreign volunteer with trips to Nigeria and South Africa under his belt in the last few years, said his parents have been planning the...