The Tehama County Superior Court in northern California has overturned the wrongful conviction of Larry Pohlschneider, a client of Santa Clara University School of Law’s Northern...
Courtesy of The Guardian Thousands of women flee their homes in parts of Central America and Mexico each year to escape armed gangs and domestic...
Education union leaders from the 10 U.S. and Mexico border states met in Houston, Texas this week for the first in a series of bilateral conferences...
Marina Fang ,The Huffington Post President Barack Obama has announced a series of measures designed to reduce obstacles facing former prisoners reintegrating into society,...
By Ina Jaffe, NPR News As Dean Cole’s dementia worsened, he began wandering at night. He’d even forgotten how to drink water. His wife, Virginia,...
La Medida FF de Oakland, una medida electoral promulgada por los votantes aprobada en noviembre de 2014, ofrece aumentos anuales al Salario Mínimo de Oakland basada...
Restaurantes y negocios de hostelería emplean cerca de 11 millones de trabajadores a nivel nacional, una de las industrias más grandes del país, y están creciendo...
By Anna Gorman , Kaiser Health News Soon after moving to Utah this summer, Rainbow Sky Buck ended up at the hospital with a painful...
Oakland, CA – It’s hard to believe this is the same team that lost ten games before their first win last season. The new and improved...
The California Nurses Association (CNA) has endorsed former East Bay Assemblymember Sandré Swanson for State Senate. The CNA’s support follows recent endorsements by East Bay...
Courtesy of Richmond Standard As safety goggles awaited on nearby tables, the Lawrence Hall of Science educator attempted to sound as serious as possible about...
A coalition of groups delivered a national petition with 130,000 signatures this week to the White House, calling on President Obama to remove the conviction history...
Since the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church and its pastor, Thomas A. Harris, III have received notoriety from the complaints about their church sounds, many churches, pastors...
Writer, journalist and educator Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke to a sold-out crowd in Berkeley this week, discussing the ideas and experiences in his best seller, “Between...
Community members and faith leaders held a public meeting this week to oppose the export of coal from a terminal at the City of Oakland’s...
With a rapidly growing and diverse workforce, offering paid training, full health benefits and pay above the minimum wage for Oakland residents, CallSocket is outshining many...
By Jonathan Morales, SFSU News From the tech world to law enforcement to education to the boardroom, it’s a topic that is coming up more...
Workers at Taylor Farms in Tracy, California were hospitalized after being told to return to work as a chemical spill took place inside the salad processing...
Oakland and other Bay Area cities are in the throes of a market-driven surge in evictions and rent increases, as long-term residents, small businesses and nonprofit...
Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s, particularly in the fields of housing...
By Harry Brill On Oct. 1, the Berkeley minimum wage increased to $11 an hour. But unfortunately, for the majority of workers the raise is...
Sacramento, CA – In the season opener for both the Kings and Clippers someone had to lose. Unfortunately it was Sacramento that watched Blake Griffin get...
U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera is the featured guest speaker at the Saint Mary’s College Leadership for Social Justice Conference “Living Truths: Migrating Voices,”...
When the founders wrote the Constitution, Blacks were considered three-fifths human. In a compromise at the constitutional convention, the Constitution was written to allow slave...
Oakland, CA – The usual fanfare surrounding this team made its final stop last night at Oracle Arena. The reigning NBA champs got their championship rings...