Bernie Sanders has named a new Native American advisor to his presidential campaign. Tara Houska is a tribal rights attorney, as well as an environmental...
By Kenneth Braswell (@fathersincorp) I said I wasn’t going to cry; yet, I did. Last night I waited with anxiety for the airing of Blackish. This...
Courtesy of Richmond Standard Starting Wednesday, March 16, nonprofits serving Richmond and North Richmond can apply for grants ranging from $5,000 to $75,000. It’s...
The Port of Oakland is extending the deadline to apply for its 2016 Summer College Internship Program. The port is currently recruiting college and graduate level...
Over 20 Latino-owned food trucks led a mobile march down International Boulevard in Oakland Monday – from 46th Avenue and International to City Hall –disrupting traffic...
Oakland’s City Council has voted to enter into an Exclusive Negotiating Agreement (ENA) with UrbanCore and East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. to build 252 market...
By Yasmin Anwar, UC Berkeley News Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and award-winning journalist, author and media critic,...
Over 100 local residents barricaded the entrances to the Oakland Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Development Summit on Friday morning, March 18, demanding an end to...
By Jeff Horwitz, Assoicated Press Washington (AP) — Donald Trump said Friday he will weaken First Amendment protections for reporters as president, making it easier...
Enroll in the Marin City Community Development Corporation (MCCDC) Construction Training Program in partnership with Local 261 Laborers Union and other construction trades. The program...
The 7th annual Powerful Women of the Bay was held Friday, March 11 at the Wedgewood in Metropolitan Golf Links in Oakland, recognizing women achievers and...
By Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed Student protests at San Francisco State University in 1968 led to the creation of the College of Ethnic Studies...
By Pamela Drake It is one of the features of life today in Oakland that bus stops the community needs disappear without explanation, and residents...
As part of their ongoing effort to bring attention to the injustice suffered by the Port Chicago 50, Representatives Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) and Barbara Lee (CA-13)...
As Barack Obama’s presidency counts down its last months, amid the raucous babble of the Republican presidential debate, people are beginning to realize how much we...
By Samantha Lachman, The Huffington Post California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill last October that will automatically register voters, which was sent to...
Eastbay Assemblymember Rob Bonta, joined by immigrant, civil rights, and labor group, is backing legislation to address controversial deportation tactics by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
By Kim Bellware, Huffington Post and other sources Chicago’s States Attorney Anita Alvarez was ousted in the Democratic primary Tuesday night by challenger Kim Foxx...
The Richmond Art Center, which is celebrating its 80th Anniversary, “The Human Spirit: Contemporary Figuration as an Expression of Humanism.” The autobiographical work of Joan...
By Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley News A new study led by researchers at UC Berkeley and Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas demonstrates how...
By Suzanne Leigh and Louise Chu, UCSF Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden, PhD, visited UC San Francisco Saturday, Feb. 27 to...
By Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News For years, Sybil Ammons was the director of nursing at Stewart County’s only hospital. Now, she’s the county coroner....
You can’t judge a book by its cover. Even so, we do it all the time: we see someone’s outside and think we know what’s...
Minneapolis, MN – No relocation needed. They fought hard to stay in their own market and the reward, a new stadium. By late July, the Minnesota...
The San Leandro Library is hosting a community celebration in honor of Women’s History Month, featuring author Kate Schatz and artist Miriam Klein Stahl. The...