By Roseann Torres As a Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Board of Education member for the past three years representing District 5, I have remained...
By Bankole Thompson, Ebony and other sources President Barack Obama was in the Motor City on Wednesday for the the 2016 North American International Auto...
Qilombo Community Center of the Afrikatown and McClymonds district has teamed up with local Oakland artist and photographer Danté-Alexander to launch a monthly Art Showcase &...
By Yara Simón, Remezcla.com The late Celia Cruz will now be honored with a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. Cruz – who perhaps has...
Cleveland, OH – In the final meeting between these two teams the King has lost his footing. LeBron James who was quoted saying “he is the...
By Manny Otiko/California Black Media Dr. Shirley Thornton, a retired educator and colonel in the United States Army Reserves, remembers reaching a “glass ceiling” when...
By Mary Kenny, SFSU News The 2016 Academy Award contenders have been announced, and once again, San Francisco State University alumni among those who have...
Way to go! Nothing beats recognition when you’ve finished a project. Good job! Well done! Hearing those things is pretty awesome. But imagine working...
By Anh Le As we commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, birthday and honor his legacy, we are confronted with many pressing issues: war, poverty, homelessness,...
Mayor Edwin M. Lee this week released ta statement on the death of cable car operator Reynaldo Morante, who was in a coma and on life...
Ethan Michaeli, who was once a reporter for The Chicago Defender in the 1990s, has written a new book “The Defender: How The Legendary Black Newspaper...
By Joyce Roy Mayor Libby Schaaf in her State of the City address claimed that she is aware of our fears “that today’s dramatic changes...
Two whistleblowing teachers at the Oakland Charter Academy, part of the Amethod Public Schools network, are alleging that they were fired without notice on the last...
When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited the Oakland Auditorium Dec. 28, 1962 before a 7,000-plus crowd, the themes of his famous March on...
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), and Children Now have announced legislation aimed at improving the mental health of children who have experienced...
The San Leandro Public Library is hosting a Murder Most Foul forum on Saturday, Jan 16, 2 p.m., at the Main Library at 300 Estudillo Ave.
Flint, Michigan is impoverished. The auto plants have closed. Forty percent of the city’s 100,000 residents live below the poverty level. It is majority minority. ...
By Paul Rockwell Forty-nine years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech that changed my life. I was a student at Union Theological...
By Hina Shamsi, Director, ACLU National Security Project A settlement in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenge to NYPD surveillance of New York Muslims...
Author Jack London’s Black roots were celebrated during his birthday party in Jack London Square by the performers who presented the Post newspaper front-page tribute to...
The Coalition for Police Accountability (CPA), a group of community organizations whose mission is to place a Police Commission on the November 2016 ballot, is holding...
After last month’s victory in getting the University of California system to sell nearly $30 million in private prison holdings, the Afrikan Black Coalition (ABC) is...
By Erica Garner, Huffington Post My father, Eric Garner, was killed by New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo a year and a half...
By Ben Allen For decades, if someone on Medicaid wanted to get treatment for drug or alcohol addiction, they almost always had to rely solely...
Leaders come from surprising places. The quiet girl that sits the next row over may know how to inspire people. The know-it-all in your class...
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