The Oakland school board asked the City Council not to sell the property to the charter school Thirty-six people were signed up to speak at this week’s...
From left to right: Elder Jay D. Pimentel, Rev. Amos Brown, Mayor London Breed, Rev, Dr. Frederick Douglas Haynes, III . By Mrs. Frankie Gillette A...
Representatives of City of Oakland unions speak at Tuesday’s Council meeting supporting a resolution opposing the Supreme Court’s recent Janus decision Representatives of the City of Oakland’s labor...
“(This) enabling legislation … assures that the staff and the legal adviser will operate under the supervision of the commission and not the city administration,” said...
Left to Right – Civil Rights Attorney John Burris, Oakland to Yale Graduate Akintunde Ahmad and Producer Ephraim Walker. Photo by Brandon Aninipot. Oakland native...
Left to right: Min. Keith Mohammed, Muhammad Mosque Number 26; Dr Patricia Nunley; Rev Dr William Coleman – Restoring the Way of the Ancestors: Black Theology; ...
A woman performs a traditional coffee ceremony of Eritrea and Ethiopia at Meaddi Club’s one year anniversary. Older adults from throughout Alameda County gather to celebrate...
Children in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland have been reported to be at higher risk of lead exposure than the children who were drinking the contaminated...
A Powerful Firsthand Account of Courage, Activism, and Social Justice in California During the 1960s By Joe Fisher “Standing Tall: Willie Long and The Mare Island...
The Far Western Regional Director of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Carol Dixon welcomed the newest graduate chapter of the Far Western Region, Omega Upsilon Omega...
International music leaders celebrated the “Roots from the West” program on July 1, at Allen Temple and gave the African American Heritage Hymnal to Per Oddvar...
Left to right – Bay Area Business Roundtable Founder and CEO Bernard Ashcraft honoring Oakland Post Publisher Paul Cobb. Oakland Post Publisher Paul Cobb was honored...
The Rosie’s Girls Summer Camp made its annual trip to the Chevron Richmond Refinery on Thursday, where members typically tour the facility and participate...
Homegrown Heroes: Oakland A’s at 50 Honors three iconic players: Dennis Eckersley, Rickey Henderson (pictured above) and Dave Stewart. In celebration of the Oakland Athletics’ 50th anniversary...
‘Occupy ICE’ protester Imri Rivas calls for the abolition of ICE at a July 3 press conference in front of San Francisco’s U.S. Citizen & Immigration...
From left to right – Ocie and Arthur Thompson of Thompson Funeral Home, Hs Lordship Owner John Tillichett and Dwayne “DVD” Davis. Hs Lordships, site of...
Warriors Sign 5-time NBA All-Star Demarcus “Boogie” Cousins. L to R – Warriors guard Stephen Curry, newly acquired center Demarcus Cousins and power forward Draymond Green celebrate...
Proposal offers a city-subsidized “incentive” for small landlords to displace tenants, says housing rights activist James Vann The Oakland City Council is scheduled Tuesday to decide on a...
By Larry White |Attorney Oakland’s City Council is poised to enact an enabling ordinance that would fill in the gaps in Measure LL, which created the Oakland...
Martin MacKerel (left) and Matthew Gerring protest the Oakland Oversized & Bulk Terminal in front of developer Phil Tagami’s Crocker Highlands home during a youth-led “zombie...
Ray Connell of Holland Partner Group presents a check for $100,000 to Art Shanks, of the Cypress Mandela Training Center, with Greg McConnell of the Oakland...
The Rules and Legislation Committee of the Oakland City Council was scheduled this week to hear a resolution proposed by Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan urging the City...
National Night Out is an annual event designed to strengthen our community by encouraging neighborhoods to engage in stronger relationships with each other and with their...
The older students working on Negro Spirituals in their academic class at summer camp. L. to R. Elysa Pulliam, Morgan Pearson, Makayla Hegler, Jacquirah Smith, Zion...
By Cat Brooks At the U.S.-Mexico Border, thousands of children have been stolen from parents fleeing horrific conditions in their home countries – conditions that have...