Sister Makinya Sibeko-Kouate, a popularize of Kwanzaa, educator and radio host, died on Feb. 4 at the age of 90. Born on July 1 to Turner...
Courtesy of The Richmond Standard El Cerrito High speedster Kaylah Robinson dazzled again on the national scene over the weekend, placing third in the girls...
Faith leaders and community leaders are coming forward to express the solidarity of Jews, Muslims and Christians – in Oakland and across the nation – in...
Students at Coliseum College Prep Academy, a public high school in East Oakland, celebrated Black History Month last Friday by putting an assembly for the entire...
By Carroll Fife, Oakland Justice Coalition March 7 could be a record day for Oaklanders. That is the day that the Oakland Council will vote...
By Carl Anthony Under the new federal administration, we wake to growing attacks against marginalized communities, vulnerable bodies and an already unstable planet. To resist the...
Maybelle Louise Broussard, a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority for 84 years, died on Feb. 9. She was 102. Mrs. Broussard was born March...
Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) introduced AB 918, the ‘California Voting for All Act,’ which would be the first of its kind in the country to provide...
The Oakland City Council this week unanimously passed a Resolution urging the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) to divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)....
By Rushawn Walters, Howard University News Service As a young girl growing in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a small town of 44,000 and 130 miles west Boston, Stephanie...
By Wade W. Nobles, Ph.D., Ifagbemi Sangodare, Nana Kwaku Berko I, and Bejana, Onebunne It is worth noting that as we enter this Black History Month,...
Richmond residents have the opportunity to receive fresh locally grown food while supporting local agriculture and community and school gardens. The local community has been working...
The Salesian boys and girls teams, along with the Kennedy High boys team, won their respective Tri-County Athletic League titles last Saturday. The No. 1-seeded Salesian...
State Senator Bill Dodd (D-Napa) has introduced a bill to help meet California’s teacher shortage by allowing community college districts to offer teacher credentialing programs. “As...
By Brandon Aninipot This past Sunday, a few of MACK’s State Championship football players, cheerleaders, and other students from the OUSD Alternatives in Action Program...
Bobby Seale, who co-founded the original Black Panther Party 50 years ago, is scheduled to take part in two Black History Month events in Richmond next week,...
By Sally Douglass Arce Justin is a 12-year-old African American boy living in the East Bay, who is in a fight for his life. Last year...
The Greenlining Institute’s new building provides space to several community organizations Last Friday, The Greenlining Institute hosted a grand opening event at its newly renovated building...
By Anna Gorman, California Healthline Legislation to be introduced in the state Senate Friday would set California on a path toward the possible creation of...
By Britni Danielle, Ebony Just days after announcing that he was retiring from touring after being hospitalized for exhaustion, legendary jazz singer Al Jarreau passed away...
Sonoma State University President Judy K. Sakaki spoke last Sunday at Beebe Memorial Church in Oakland to encourage young people to go college as part of...
By Cat Brooks It is no longer questioned that the war on drugs has disproportionately impacted Black, Brown and poor people. What is less understood...
Bob Moses, the iconic director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s efforts to register Black voters during the 1960s, is coming to Oakland. Moses, 82,...
Chapel of the Chimes Oakland is partnering with the Oakland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on a free community...
In the angry aftermath of the city’s eviction of a homeless encampment in North Oakland, Councilmember Noel Gallo and Joe DeVries, assistant to the City Administrator,...
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