Deborah Perry was the winner of the “Live Your Dream Award” at the annual Soroptimist dinner on February 3, 2016. The Soroptimist International of Marin...
After a tearful press conference, an anti-displacement ballot initiative was filed March 3 at Oakland City Hall by a coalition of Oakland renters, clergy, teachers, homeowners,...
Services for Californians totaling $15 billion were cut from the state budget between 2008 and 2013. By 2010, the Alameda Court system began feeling the...
Oakland, CA – If we have to credit the heroics of Stephen Curry to have one of the greatest artist of all time add another show...
The Oakland Private Industry Council (PIC) recently hosted a recruitment event for the transportation company Uber, Tuesday, March 1 at the West Oakland Career Center. Uber...
The fight to build affordable housing on a parcel of public land by Lake Merritt has once again turned into a tug-of-war between the East 12th...
Westlake Middle School students, parents and teachers are angry and confused after learning in the past week that the district has decided to “co-locate” a charter...
Residents from a number of community groups attended the City Council’s Rules and Legislation Committee, calling on the committee to support a temporary “moratorium on evictions...
Brooklyn Basin, a $1.5 billion waterfront condominium project now being built near downtown Oakland, may be a great deal for developers but not so good for...
Being born Black in this country comes with certain challenges. Being born Black, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Intersex, Queer or Questioning (LGBTIQQ) in this country presents...
Sacramento, CA – One of the most entertaining games of the season took place last Saturday at Chesapeake Arena. The Oklahoma City Thunder fell to the...
A memorial fund has been established for Carl Breaux, 60, and Jacari Cook, 28, to help the immediate family with funeral expenses. Donations can be...
BySue Sturgis, Common Dreams As the federal trial over North Carolina’s restrictive voter ID law wrapped up last week in Winston-Salem, the North Carolina. NAACP...
Courtesy of The Richmond Standard Hercules High senior Garvey Buchongo may not have had a father growing up, but since age five she has had...
By David Gorn, California Healthline A plan to offer full state-sponsored health benefits for adult immigrants without papers is likely to spark one of the...
Courtesy of Rafu Noted artist and peace activist Iwao Lewis Suzuki passed away recently at the age of 95. “With more than 30 family,...
Carol Lee Tolbert, an Oakland native, is the first and only African-American woman elected to public office in North Oakland. From 1993 to 1997, Tolbert...
San Leandro High School will be hosting its annual Black History Celebration, organized by the school’s Black Student Union, on Monday, Feb. 29 at the San...
Life has a destination for everyone, however some may not know where that destination is going to be. Some people may have obstacles that block the...
Courtesy of Berkeley News Berkeley Law professor and former dean Christopher Edley has launched a nonprofit organization that aims to use education and related social...
Join leaders and activists organizing for a citywide moratorium on evictions and rent increases and other important proposals that can help Oakland residents stay in Oakland....
Oakland’s Legislation Committee unanimously passed Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan’s proposal for a resolution that would urge President Obama to require all federal employees, agents and law enforcement...
By Ed Pilkington, The Guardian Albert Woodfox, the longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner in the US, held in isolation in a six-by-nine-foot cell almost continuously for...
By Kitty Kelly Epstein There is an emergency in Oakland. The policies that prevail in Oakland City Hall are going to drive most of...
By Steve Hockensmith, SFSU News Rosanna Fajardo (B.A., ’15) says that the California foster care system used to have a clear message for the kids...
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