When the shelter-in-place order caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was announced in March, Denise Clark immediately shut down her two restaurants. But the wife of Bishop...
Alameda County Supervisors Keith Carson and Nate Miley held a Virtual Town Hall last month to “discuss creative ways to raise awareness about Census 2020 in...
“I haven’t had a gig since early March of this year and things are looking even direr,” said Paul Tillman Smith, a Bay Area drummer...
Thomas Fuller (1710–1790) was once asked two questions: “How many seconds are in a year and a half? How many seconds had a man lived who...
COVID-19 has added more strain to the recycling industry, which has been overwhelmed by recycling product bans and stricter quality guidelines due to the enactment of...
As calls to defund the police intensified nationwide, protestors demanded justice this week for Erik Salgado, 23, a Hispanic man shot and killed in East Oakland...
Claudell Washington, a two-time Major League Baseball All-Star and World Series champion died Wednesday at the age of 65, losing a three year battle with prostate...
June 5, 2020, marked the kick-off for San Francisco Pride 2020. It was virtually streamed on Mayor London Breed’s Facebook Page. SF Pride 2020 will be...
A ‘Vigil For Black Lives’ hosted by “Brown Folx 4 Black Lives” and The Greenlining Institute was held on Tuesday at 360 14th St. According to...
About 1,000 people who came to the plaza in front of San Francisco’s City Hall on Tuesday got more than a typical rally for George Floyd,...
In recent weeks, the call to defund the police has gone national. Major cities like Los Angeles and New York City have taken steps to...
Local residents have joined with Assemblymember Rob Bonta to oppose a state bill that would have required the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) to permanently close...
On June 9, 2020 the Office of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced a directive to allow victims and witnesses of police violence to receive...
ArtEsteem’s 22nd Annual Art Exhibition, a youth-driven, 3D, multimedia online event of art, stories and video interviews will be on view from June 13-July 13, 2020,...
Representatives of social justice organizations and individuals announced a civil rights class-action lawsuit Thursday against the City of Oakland in the wake of police violence during...
As the worldwide demonstrations continue two weeks after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, the question is whether outrage will lead to real...
Marin County residents took to the streets June 2 in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis May 25, 2020. Like many of...
SURJ Marin (Showing Up for Racial Justice) conducted a car caravan on June 5, 2020, to protest the death of George Floyd and police brutality. Floyd...
As I write this column, there are two stay-at-home orders in effect in major cities across California due to sickness — one for the coronavirus and...
Bonnie Pointer, a co-founder of Oakland’s renowned Pointer, who shot to fame in the 1970s, has died. She was 69. Her death was announced in a...
The world recognized her as having possessed one of the greatest singing voices of her era. An Opera News reviewer for the Washington Post wrote: “The...
As mass protests continued across the state Tuesday, the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) called for lasting change in race relations — as well as reform...
Carl Robert Hampton, affectionately known as “Cowboy” to family and close friends, was born on February 7, 1942, in Gulfport, Miss., to the parents of Louis...
[George] Floyd’s murder sparked peaceful demonstrations in cities across the country, demonstrations that, in Minneapolis and a few other places, turned toward riots. Chauvin and his...
AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS & ISSUES — Black people, as the primary target and victim of inhumanity have always met the challenge. This has not been a...
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