By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News People with hepatitis C who sought prescriptions for highly effective but pricey new drugs were significantly more likely to...
By Yasmin Anwar , UC Berkeley News At 6-foot-4 and with quite a wingspan, UC Berkeley engineering student Akol Kuan towered over sixth-graders at Oakland’s...
By Laura Kurtzman, UCSF News The Atlantic Philanthropies is awarding UC San Francisco and Trinity College Dublin and the University of Dublin, $177 million to...
The local teachers’ union and school activists are raising concerns about a proposal, backed by the school district’s administration, to dramatically change how new students are...
In past years, the Bay Area Rescue Mission has provided hundreds of homeless and near homeless people with a traditional Thanksgiving meal complete with all the...
Paul Robeson. Muhammad Ali. Bill Russell. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Jim Brown. Curt Flood. Hank Aaron. The “Black 14” at the University of Wyoming. The St. Louis Rams....
By Katy Reckdahl, the Advocate Mwalimu Johnson, a prison-reform advocate and a sought-after counselor to thousands of fellow inmates, died last Tuesday of kidney failure...
The City of San Francisco has launched a new Family Homelessness Initiative to ensure that families with elementary school children never have to spend a night...
Courtesy of the Richmond Standard Richmond Chief of Police Chris Magnus has accepted an offer to lead the police force of the City of Tucson....
Mary V. King, an Oakland native who was the first African American on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and served as AC Transit general manager,...
A number of housing rights activists are calling on...
There is near universal agreement that Oakland is in a housing crisis and that action must be taken quickly to prevent the town from being San...
By Pete Farley, UCSF News A chemical that could potentially be used in eye drops to reverse cataracts, the leading cause of blindness, has been...
Isaac Kos-Read, chief of Communications and Public Affairs for the Oakland Unified School District, recently signed a $192,000-a-year-contract, extending his previous contract for two years. ...
Courtesy of www.newschannel10 Claims that hundreds of immigrant women seeking asylum in Texas are being mistreated has one Amarillo, Texas woman worried about her mom....
Courtesy of TeleSur Anglo-Australian and Brazilian mining giants BHP-Billiton and Vale have agreed to pay $260 million through their Brazilian subsidiary Samarco for damages caused...
By Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root The mayor of Minneapolis has called for a federal investigation into the fatal police shooting Sunday of 24-year-old...
By Jonathan Morales , SFSU News Students hoping to work as environmental scientists at government agencies or other organizations have a new option at SF...
More than one million veterans have returned from wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Middle East with symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Most veterans...
A nivel nacional, los trabajadores de comida rápida, los cuidadores y los empleados de tiendas en cientos de ciudades de todo el país abandonaron sus puestos...
Written by Walter Thompson-Hernández, http://remezcla.com The myth of the Latin American racial democracy, scholars believe, began in Brazil following the abolishment of slavery in 1888,...
Oakland, CA – Two interceptions can be costly but when the second one is thrown close to the two minute mark, it’s a clear indication that...
Dorothy Johnson-Speight (right), the National Director of Mothers in Charge, spoke to the congregation of St. Columba Church in Berkeley at the church’s Saints Day...
By Carroll Fife The Oakland Alliance convened a meeting Saturday, Nov. 7 of over 100 people representing more than 30 organizations to plan for the...
Una reunión del Consejo de la Ciudad de Alameda se tornó violenta sobre una propuesta de moratoria en aumentos de alquiler la semana pasada. ...
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