• Special Interests Articles

    44th NAACP Image Awards Features a Star-Studded Lineup, Feb. 1

    by  • January 25, 2013 • Bay Area, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Halle Berry

    “The 44th NAACP Image Awards,” a live, two-hour special on Friday, Feb. 1 (8 p.m.-10 p.m. ET), will showcase the best achievements and performances of people of color in the arts, featuring a star-studded lineup of performers, winners and presenters. Nominations were announced in December and included contributions in television, film, music and literature....

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    Chicago Must Pay $10.2 Million to Innocent Man Imprisoned for 26 Years

    by  • January 25, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles, trayvon

    Alton Logan

    The City of Chicago will pay pay $10.2 million to a wrongfully convicted man who spent 26 years prison for a murder he did not commit. He was convicted despite the fact that some attorneys familiar with the crime knew almost from the very beginning that he was innocent. Cook County, IL, prosecutors convicted...

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    Transportation Commission Offers High School Summer Internships

    by  • January 25, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    The Metropolitan Transportation Commission High School Summer Internship Program is accepting student applications online for about 38 internships that will be available throughout the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. The pay rate is $10.55 per hour. Each internship will last up to a maximum of 250 hours. Students may work full-time or part-time, for...

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    Summer Classes for High Schools Arts Students

    by  • January 25, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

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    The Alameda County Arts Commission is promoting an opportunity for county high school students involved in the arts to participate in the State Summer School for the Arts, a four-week, intensive pre-college program for talented and motivated high school students in the arts, held on the campus of the California Institute of the Arts...

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    Oakland Offers Business Consulting and Technical Assistance to Small Businesses

    by  • January 25, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    The City of Oakland and the consulting firm Sand Dollar Group, LLC have teamed up to help local small businesses grow and increase their revenue. They are offering free technical assistance to Oakland entrepreneurs who are certified as small businesses with the city. Qualified small businesses will receive monthly consulting services through June 2014...

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    Sista Monica Parker Goes Acoustic

    by  • January 25, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Sista Monica Parker

    By Lee Hildebrand “I get paid to belt and shout, but I actually can sing,” Sista Monica Parker quips in the living room of her Mountain House home prior to a Wednesday night rehearsal with her new Acoustic Honey band. Since the Gary, Indiana, native became a professional singer 20 year ago, she’s been...

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    Picklewater Clown Cabaret Presents Prescott Circus Fundraiser

    by  • January 25, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Philanthropy, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Prescott Clowns

    The Picklewater Clown Cabaret will host a fundraiser for Prescott Circus Theatre, featuring some of the Bay Area’s finest circus and variety stars and local and international professional circus artists, comedians, and Clown Conservatory alumni, 8 p.m., Monday, Feb. 4 at  NEW Stage Werx Theatre location, 446 Valencia St. in San Francisco. In an...

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    Wells Fargo Honors 150th Anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation at S.F. Art Exhibit

    by  • January 25, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, Special Interests Articles

    Grace C. Stanislaus, executive director of the Museum of the African Diaspora.

    To honor the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Wells Fargo is joining with the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco and other of the nation’s leading African American museums to host a year-long tour of “The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, Where Art and History Intersect.” The...

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    $16 Million to Fight Childhood Mortality, River Blindness in Africa

    by  • January 25, 2013 • Bay Area, News Articles, Richmond News, Special Interests Articles

    Thomas Lietman, MD, treats a young boy in Matameye, Niger, in 2012. Lietman is leading a team that’s received $12 million for a multi-year trial to study the effectiveness of the antibiotic azithromycin in reducing childhood mortality in Niger, Tanzania and Malawi.

    Two UCSF teams have received a total of $16 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study new ways to significantly reduce childhood mortality and disease in developing nations. An international team led by Thomas M. Lietman, MD, associate director of the UCSF Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, received...

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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

    hiv

    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Marva Whitney, 68, Singer in James Brown Revue

    by  • January 4, 2013 • Barak Obama, Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Oakland News Articles, Obituaries, Special Interests Articles

    Marva Whitney

    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...

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    West Side Church and Oakland PIC Host Job Workshop

    by  • 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...

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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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    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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    Vatican Says Pope Beats Justin Bieber on Re-tweets

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

    Pope Benedict

    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...

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    Santa Claus Comes to Marin City

    by  • December 28, 2012 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Richmond News, Special Interests Articles

    Top row from left: Santa and Mrs. Claus leaving their Cessna 172 Seaplane, Aaron and Tiffany Singer as Santa and Mrs. Claus. Second row: Children waiting to talk to Santa Claus; Bottom photo: First row - Officer Glen Newcommer, California Highway Patrol; London (little girl); Dan Appleton, Firefigther, Mill Valley Fire Department; Aaron & Tiffany Singer - Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus; Marshan (little boy); Felecia Gaston, Performing Stars; Deputy Michael Dobbins, Marin County Sheriff’s Department. 2nd row - Jesse Rudnick, Mark Puchir, Jesse Rudnick - Firefighters, Marin County Fire Department; Clint Mason, Captain, Mill Valley Fire Department; Firefighter, Jesse Rudnick, Mill Valley Fire Department; Officer Daniel Ruiz, California Highway Patrol; Officer Brian Miller, California Highway Patrol. (Photos by Godfrey Lee).

    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...

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    Let’s Change the Culture of Gun Violence

    by  • 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...

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