NNPA NEWSWIRE — The black community in America has not lashed out with retribution, violence or hate. We remain the most abused, but have maintained a...
Carmen Domingo has been appointed dean of San Francisco State University’s College of Science & Engineering (CoSE), the University announced today. The first woman to be...
Dr. Julia Reed Hare was born on Nov. 7, 1939 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She married psychologist, Dr. Nathan Hare, in 1956. Together with her husband, she...
This week, Jessica Allen headed off on a vacation, her first in many years. It is, in fact, a joint Spring Break trip with her daughter;...
On the eve of a trial, the mother of Mario Woods has reached a settlement agreement with San Francisco to end the wrongful death lawsuit she...
Barnacles that hitch rides on the backs of humpback and gray whales not only record details about the whales’ yearly travels, they also retain this information...
Your mother dealt with things you can’t imagine. It was a different time when she was your age, with societal issues you’d never tolerate and rules...
Until 2018, Florida — the state vital to the presidential victories of George Bush and Donald Trump — deprived 1 in 10 voters, and 2 in 10 African...
As UC Berkeley graduate students Nancy Freitas and Jake Duncan made their way recently toward the vaunted halls of the California State Capitol in Sacramento, they...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — Steppenwolf Theatre Company is thrilled to welcome Leelai Demoz as its new Associate Artistic Director. Leelai Demoz has had a varied career in the arts, on stage,...
Supporters of veteran Mr. Leonard Powell are invited to join Friends of Adeline in court, Tuesday, April 2 at 9 a.m., Dept. 511 in Alameda County...
In an op-ed recently in the New York Times, UC Berkeley energy expert Dan Kammen and state Senator Scott Wiener are blunt: “To solve the climate...
On the celebration for the Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary in 2011, UC Berkeley renewed its call for more graduates to serve. The appeal may finally be...
A fight is on and Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) should be concerned, charter school leaders and advocates say. About 6,000 supporters showed up at the state...
Williams Chapel Baptist Church kicked off its 80th anniversary celebration with a banquet dinner on Friday March 22 where Oakland District 2 Councilperson Nikki Fortunato Bas...
Part I.“Poetic Pain” We are but African diasporic seeds sprinkled amongst the Earth. Reincarnations of our pasts’ past. Returned ancestars in the flesh roaming about the...
Paul Cobb to Interview on SIRIUS XM’s “Inside The Issue’s,” Podcast on Channel 126, with Wilmer J. Leon, III, Ph.D. Paul Cobb, owner and publisher of...
In a packed chamber in Oakland on Tuesday morning, March 26, 2019, Alameda County Supervisors Scott Haggerty, Richard Valle, Nate Miley, Keith Carson, Wilma Chan, in...
Funded by Measure A1 Affordable Housing Bond, Program expected to help over 350 households purchase their first homes in Alameda County On March 20, the Alameda...
All the Fighting 90th Tuskegee Airmen wanted was an opportunity to serve. And in “Black Eagles,” the play by Leslie Lee and directed by L. Peter...
District 6 Councilmember Loren Taylor celebrated March for Meals 2019 by delivering a meal to Mrs. Liz Gilmore, an 89-year-old meal recipient who is a longtime...
San Mateo resident Gloria Brown didn’t get a good night’s sleep. Her husband, Arthur Brown, 79, has Alzheimer’s disease and had spent most of the night...
U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) on Monday announced the hiring of three staff members, all women of color. Heather Hutt has been appointed as state...
Thousands of charter school supporters gathered on the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento recently for a high-powered rally meant to send a clear message...
At Harvard University, the shield says, “VERITAS,” which is Greek for “TRUTH.” However, we have discovered that thanks to, “Operation Varsity Blues,” “TRUTH,” for some institutions...