The San Leandro City Council announced that for the second year in a row, up to 75 San Leandro homeowners are eligible to receive as much...
Community members, civil rights activists and advocates for more local jobs spoke out at this week’s Community and Economic Development (CED) committee meeting to oppose...
Local labor leader Andreas Cluver and long-time community leader Arabella Martinez have been appointed to the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners. They joined the Board Feb....
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced that Academy Award–winning actor Morgan Freeman will be honored at the 43rd Annual Chaplin Award Gala held at...
By Terry Turner , courtesy of Good News Network A North Carolina preacher was nominated for a top hero prize after he created a nutritional...
By Ron Lindsey Broken lives and families are being woven together in West Oakland and throughout the Greater Bay Area thanks to a program tailored...
Your neighbors said they’d keep an eye on your house for you this summer. They’d get the mail in, and grab the newspaper while you...
Courtesy of Atlanta Blackstar If you don’t know about your past, you lack a blueprint for the future. And a new study suggests just that. ...
Nearly a month after City Council passed a resolution designating the 14th Street corridor in downtown Oakland as the Black Arts Movement Business District...
By Sally Douglas Arce Kevin Weston was a 44-year-old journalist living in Oakland. He strove to take journalism in new directions while giving a voice...
By Nikolas Zelinski The social media website Nextdoor.com, designed to connect neighbors, is gradually making changes to its website in the wake of intense criticism...
By James Vann Part II Oakland’s present catastrophic rental and affordable housing crisis, which monthly disrupts 1,000 long-established households through evictions, displacement, foreclosures, and destruction...
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Since the Republican presidential front-runner announced after San Bernardino that he would close America’s borders...
Richmond families are invited to participate in the free Family Chess Night series at the Richmond Recreation Department, 3230 Macdonald Ave. The first Family Chess...
The Haiti Action Committee is holding a community meeting to mark the 12th anniversary of the Feb. 29, 2004 U.S.-backed coup d’état that overthrew the progressive,...
By Gloria Lee If you ask any Oakland parent what kind of public school they want for their child, they will tell you: a safe...
Rebuilding wealth among Black Americans through homeownership is the focus of the Mid-Winter Regional Conferences to be convened by National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB).
On Monday, undocumented immigrant students and documented student allies representing 12 universities staged classroom sit-ins at three Georgia public colleges that ban undocumented students from admission:...
The basic story of the poisoning of the children of Flint, Mich., through the water they drink is now pretty well known, but as more details...
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press The United States should consider reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, establish a national human rights commission and publicly...
In a historic move, Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services (has funded the design phase of an African American Wellness Hub in Alameda County. The...
By Chanelle Bell Daniel Alexander Jones, a professor at Fordham University and a well known artist, is directing the August Wilson play “Gem of the...
Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson is taking a strong stand against the building of a coal terminal in Oakland. “The health of our children, families,...
As an early graduate of Central High Robin (Reed) Poindexter has overcome many obstacles in her life to become successful as deputy fire marshal in Richmond.
Things were abuzz at Evergreen Missionary Baptist Church for a Day of Service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 18. ...
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