Long hours worked by Erica Alfaro’s parents, picking berries in the fields of California, motivated her to obtain a master’s degree from San Diego State University....
Learning Black History Year Round There are many stories told about extraordinary slave escapes. Without maps or compasses, many depended on quilts, songs, and even the...
God on Wall Street Someone once said, “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” And if reparations is a crisis in America, it would be...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This is what we want. This is Memphis,” Hardaway said in his first media session since capping his recruiting season with 5-star prospect...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — For easy-to-please horror genre fans, who don’t ask much from creepy movies, there are enough frights and shocks to satiate: Mirror-image intruders (aka...
CINCINNATI HERALD — Dayton area resident Steven Geraud Anderson II, who is one of the 400 Morehouse College students who graduated Sunday in Atlanta, said he was...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) voted to pass H.R. 5, the Equality Act, to ensure that all LGBTQ Americans are granted the full protections guaranteed...
MILWAUKEE COURIER — The sale of single cigarettes is illegal and a practice that is detrimental to the health of residents in Central City Milwaukee communities. That’s...
MILWAUKEE COURIER — In Milwaukee, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office (MCOS) uses the day to remember Milwaukee’s missing children and teach children about safety. Throughout the...
FLORIDA COURIER — Robert F. Smith’s gift of paying off the student loans of Morehouse College’s 2019 graduating class stunned the school’s students and faculty, but...
ROLLINGOUT — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is “very proud” of his daughter after she graduated high school on Saturday, May 25, 2019. The Jumanji star took to...
Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter and the San Leandro City Council are pleased to announce this year’s Cherry Festival on Saturday, June 1, 2019, marking the 110th...
You were their hope for the future. For your elders, your birth represented things they wished would happen but that they’d never know. It was a...
Fancy a “Kids Night Out?” Yep, that’s right—this night out is all about the kiddos, designed to maximize the fun during an evening play sesh with...
The Contra Costa County Library is asking for the community help in narrowing down library card designs. The county is looking to select five new library...
Golden Gate University School of Law featured Contra Costa County District Attorney and alumna Diana Becton as the keynote speaker at its recent commencement program held...
California Treasurer Fiona Ma has appointed Frederick Jordan of San Francisco to the California High-Speed Rail Authority Peer Review. The California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group...
A group of San Francisco Supervisors are threatening to shut down the city’s juvenile hall, saying it makes “economic and social sense.” They’re introducing legislation Tuesday...
California Treasurer Fiona Ma says Dr. Scott best in her field and has decades of experience California Treasurer Fiona Ma has appointed Dr. Beverly A. Scott...
Vaccination is easy, effective protection Berkeley Public Health has confirmed that a Berkeley resident has measles. While the adult is no longer contagious, those who are...
Alabama — led by utterly clueless male legislators — just passed the most restrictive ban on abortion in the country, with Georgia and Missouri piling on....
By the time Memorial Day rolls around, most students at UC Berkeley have split for the summer. Many of the faculty and staff are vacation-bound, too....
“If you had asked me five years ago if I’d be walking out of Berkeley to start a new elementary school in Hayward, California, I would...
There are some stories that no matter how they’re cast or recast, what’s wrong stays wrong until certain directors give the work a nuanced tweak that...
The Black Church is in the community in the S.F. Bay Area Every Wednesday evening, an extraordinary gathering takes place at Imani Community Church in Oakland....