The Oakland City Council’s Finance and Management Committee will hold a discussion of the city’s handling of late payment penalties that are paid to nonprofits and...
Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan received appreciation and an award on her lat last day on Bay Area Air Quality Management (BAAQMD) board. Kaplan is shown with BAAQMD...
Sandré R Swanson (left) with Rebecca Kaplan. By Sandré Swanson I was born in the City of Oakland and I have proudly served Oakland as our...
Mayor and City Administration push property sales without transparency or community involvement. Speakers at the Post Salon included (L to R): Margaretta Lin, Councilmember Abel Guillén and Post...
Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project and now former host of “Upfront” on KPFA, speaks at the ILWU Local 10 May Day rally on May 1,...
By Dan Siegel | Oakland Justice Coalition Desley Brooks deserves another term on the Oakland City Council because she has been a strong, creative advocate for the...
Mimi Rohr and Greg McConnell of the Oakland Jobs Foundation present a check for job training to Bishop Bob Jackson and Pastor Jerald Simpkins for members...
Born May 2, 1918 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Anna Tillman relocated to Oakland in the 1940s. She has been a faithful member of Palma Ceia Baptist Church...
By Greg McConnell | The McConnell Group On Tuesday, April 24, I attended a City Council committee meeting where a major fight broke out over the issue...
Wak-N-Tal will host its first annual “You Are Fabolous” Mother’s Day dinner on Friday, May 11 from 7pm-12am. Founder Peggy Walker has worked in the fashion industry...
The PushTech 2020 summit hosted “Mother’s of the NBA” on April 12 and featured Wanda Durant, mother of 7-time NBA All-star Kevin Durant. Dressed in a...
By Tony (Heru) Jackson, Ph.D. | Bay Area Chapter of the ABPsi As we approach the Association of Black Psychologists’ 50th anniversary, we are called to step...
Supporters of the repeal of the state anti-rent control law, the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, rally Monday in front of Oakland City Hall. Oakland Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca...
Pre-apprenticeship building trades trainees from the Cypress Mandela Training Center, which was founded by the Oakland Private Industry Council, joined a rally recently in front of...
Mayor Libby Schaaf (left) listens as Councilmember Desley Brooks criticizes her administration for closing neighborhood career centers, speaking at the April 26, 2016 CED committee meeting....
Photo credit: Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/SF Giants San Francisco, CA – The Los Angeles Dodgers took a dominant lead in the fourth scoring four runs while ...
This week’s Post Salon will discuss: “How Should the City Use Land That Belongs to the Public? -Sell it to developers? Use it stop gentrification? Use...
At a meeting this week with Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Supt. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, parents and educators at Prescott Elementary School in West Oakland made clear...
By Reverend Damita Davis-Howard We’re in a development boom in Oakland. Cranes and bulldozers clang downtown, building luxury condos, offices, and hotels. More and more people huddle...
A town hall meeting Monday evening, organized by the East Oakland Congress of Neighborhoods, demanded that the City of Oakland make cleaning up the streets in flatland neighborhoods...
The Oakland Unified School District has rehired widely respected administrator Tim White as Deputy Chief of Facilities to oversee construction and renovation projects on numerous major...
Councilmember Desley Brooks continues to garner national attention for her work in helping found Oakland’s Cannabis Equity program. Brooks was invited to speak at Harvard’s Kennedy...
The Oakland Board of Education has approved the layoff of 55 classified workers – nonteaching employees – whose jobs will be eliminated at the end of...
Geoffrey Pete and Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney. Photo by Ken Epstein. The Oakland City Council this week recognized Geoffrey Pete, owner of Geoffrey’s Inner Circle. as...
Schaaf denounces Brooks’ proposal to train Blacks and Latinos for city-funded construction projects Resorting to name calling, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has turned to the local media...