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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Rhythm Tap Hall of Fame Offers Tap Dance Workshops
by abhatt • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
Ancestral Memories Quilt Exhibit and Reception
by abhatt • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, News Articles, South County, Special Interests Articles
As a part of the San Leandro Public Library’s 2013 Big Read, the library will be hosting “Ancestral Memories,” an exhibit of quilts by the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland. The quilts will be on display in the atrium of the Main Library at 300 Estudillo Ave. from Jan. 29 to Feb. 28....
Read more →Is Oakland Wasting Money on Bratton?
by abhatt • 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
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....
Read more →Laid Off Teacher Fights to Save Home
by abhatt • 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
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...
Read more →New Documentary “End Game: AIDS in Black America”
by abhatt • January 18, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, HIV, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Debutantes Delighted at Links’ Cotillion SF Ball
by abhatt • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Darrell Carl Burton, 68
by abhatt • 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, 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...
Read more →Classical Star Performs at East Oakland Leadership Academy
by abhatt • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Oakland Youth Orchestra’s Winter Concert
by abhatt • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Guitarist Calvin Keys’ Kinder, Jam Sessions
by abhatt • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, SECTIONS, South County, Special Interests Articles
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....
Read more →Yvonne Lawrence Offers Nonprofits Creative Ways to Fundraise
by abhatt • January 18, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Philanthropy, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Larry Bryant, Campaign to End AIDS
by abhatt • 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 (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...
Read more →Nigerian University Announces Alleged Cure for HIV/Aids
by abhatt • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, HIV, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Oakland “Flashmob Dance” in Solidarity with Native Rights
by abhatt • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →UCSF Cancer Center Awarded $36 Million Grant
by abhatt • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Obama Eases Door Open for Immigrants
by abhatt • 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
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...
Read more →Jennifer Holliday to Headline Oakland Concert
by abhatt • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, SECTIONS, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →House GOP Blocks Violence Against Women Act
by abhatt • January 11, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Dr. Muntu Davis Leads HIV/AIDS Training
by abhatt • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Artist Thomas Blackshear’s Collections Achieve International Acclaim
by abhatt • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Looking Good, Ethiopian Eritrean Style
by abhatt • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →15-Year-Old Civil Rights Heroine Inspires New Play
by abhatt • 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...
Read more →Youth Program Fights to Save its Home, Former Marcus Garvey Landmark
by abhatt • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Full Pardon for Wilmington 10
by abhatt • 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...
Read more →Ex-Police Officer for Gun Control
by abhatt • January 4, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Marva Whitney, 68, Singer in James Brown Revue
by abhatt • January 4, 2013 • Barak Obama, Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries, Special Interests Articles
Marva Whitney, a fiery-voiced funk singer who toured and collaborated with James Brown — along the way earning the nickname “Soul Sister #1” — died Saturday at 68, Whitney died from complications of pneumonia. She is best known for her version of “It’s My Thing,” which cracked the Hot 100 in 1969, and for...
Read more →West Side Church and Oakland PIC Host Job Workshop
by abhatt • January 3, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Church Events, Oakland News Articles, Special Interests Articles
A job workshop designed to recruit unemployed and formerly incarcerated community residents and to disburse information about job opportunities and community resources will be held Wednesday, Jan. 9 from 6 p.m. -7:30 p.m., at the West Side Missionary Baptist Church, 732 Willow St. in Oakland. The event is co-hosted by the church and the...
Read more →Holiday Message
by abhatt • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Black Church Information, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Bishop Flunder and City of Refuge Celebrate 21 Years of Ministry
by abhatt • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Crowdmapping Group Used Mobile Phones to Expose Kenyan Election Killings
by abhatt • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Report: Tobacco Sales Focus on Youth, Low-Income Neighborhoods
by abhatt • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Feature 2, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Vatican Says Pope Beats Justin Bieber on Re-tweets
by abhatt • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, Special Interests Articles
Pope Benedict, white-haired, 85, and a neophyte to social media site Twitter, has beaten out 18-year old heartthrob Justin Bieber to set a percentage record for re-tweeting by his followers, the Vatican said on Thursday. The Vatican newspaper said that as of noon Italian time on Thursday the pope had 2.1 million followers on...
Read more →Santa Claus Comes to Marin City
by abhatt • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Richmond News, Special Interests Articles
By Godfrey Lee Santa Claus visited Mill Valley on Wednesday, Dec. 19 and Marin City on Sunday, Dec. 23, to give out presents and made the holiday season more joyous for the children living in Southern Marin. On Wednesday, Aaron and Tiffany Singer, owners of Seaplane Adventures, dressed as Santa and Mrs. Claus, arrived...
Read more →Let’s Change the Culture of Gun Violence
by abhatt • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Opinion, Richmond News, San Francisco, Special Interests Articles, trayvon
By Alice A. Huffman, Criminal Justice Chair for the National Board of the NAACP and the State Conference President in California/Hawaii; and Wilfred T. Ussery, former National Chairman of CORE and former President of the Board of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) How proud we were to watch the president...
Read more →Faith Is Stronger Than the Sword
by abhatt • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Faith, Richmond News, Sacred Sounds, San Francisco, Special Interests Articles
By Jesse Jackson Christmas decorations light the streets. Malls are full. Christmas music fills the air. But this year, there is a somber undercurrent to the celebration. We will all hug our children a little harder. Our hearts will be in our throats as they go out to play. After the horror of Newtown,...
Read more →Chess Tournament in Richmond
by abhatt • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Richmond News, Special Interests Articles
By Will Delaney The 2nd Annual McKinley Williams and John Easterling Community Chess Tournament was held recently at the Richmond Recreation facility on MacDonald Avenue. The Dec. 8 tournament was sponsored by the City of Richmond, Contra Costa College and the West Coast Chess Alliance (WCCA). Coordinators were Trendell Ball, Gerl Jenkins and Will...
Read more →Richmond Stands Up Against Violence
by abhatt • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Opinion, Richmond News, Special Interests Articles
By DeVone Boggan There is an African Proverb that I am fond of quoting: “The experience of one generation becomes the history of the next, and the history of several generations becomes the traditions of a people.” On Dec. 14 like many Americans and peoples from around the world, I found myself once again...
Read more →Berkeley Civil-Rights Scholar Releases New Book on Race
by abhatt • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Walgreen Pays $16.57 Million for Dumping Hazardous Wastes and Customer Information
by abhatt • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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...
Read more →Black Pilots Association Hosts Christmas Fundraiser
by abhatt • 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...
Read more →Holiday Week at Crab Cove
by abhatt • 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...
Read more →Allen Temple Hosts Tye Tribbett
by abhatt • 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...
Read more →New Presidents at Berkeley City and Merritt Colleges
by abhatt • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, Marin County News, News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles
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....
Read more →Bass-Baritone Vocalist David L. Tigner, 61
by abhatt • December 21, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries, South County, Special Interests Articles
Renowned bass-baritone David L. Tigner, 61, died Dec. 11 of chronic renal and congestive heart failure. As a child, Tigner discovered he had perfect pitch plunking out a Johann Sebastian Bach prelude by ear on a broken piano at his family’s Sebastopol home. He joined the San Francisco Opera in 1974 after two years...
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