Recently Renovated, Former Traveler’s Hotel in Downtown Oakland to be Purchased by Group Including Elaine Brown to House Formerly Incarcerated People Led by former Black Panther...
Senator Bernie Sanders has weighed in on the Oakland City Council-at-Large race by endorsing Council President Rebecca Kaplan. Former Berkeley Mayor and longtime friend of Senator...
Robert Smalls (1839–1915) met Hannah Jones at age 16. The two soon married, moved in an apartment in Charleston, S.C., and worked at a nearby hotel....
The legal push-and-pull over whether ride-hailing company drivers in California will maintain their status as independent contractors or become W-2 employees continued last week. On Oct....
On Nov. 3, voters will determine the fate of Proposition 16. If approved, it will repeal the ban on affirmative action written into the California Constitution...
Late on Oct. 20, Oakland City Council unanimously passed an Encampment Management Policy that codifies where people experiencing homelessness are and are not allowed to live,...
The California Democratic Party African American Caucus (CDPAAC) hosted press conferences at four locations across the state to call on Black Californians to support what that...
As the elections and voting cycle winds down, we all just witnessed, with rapt attention, the unraveling of the premature, immature, and amateur rapture culture phenomenon...
An eerie message from Martin Luther King Jr. from 56 years ago today on October 27, 1964, has been found. The message sounds remarkably relevant to...
The California Democratic Party Black Caucus hosted statewide press conferences simultaneously across four locations on Thursday to call on Black Californians to support ballot initiatives on...
In the face of opposition, Mayor Libby Schaaf has withdrawn her proposed appointment of an ex-U.S. District Attorney as a police commission alternate. Brian Hauck, in...
Councilmembers voted unanimously near midnight at this week’s City Council meeting to give federal CARES funding to local job training agencies in light of the devastating...
I’ve been a rideshare driver with Uber for over a year and I’ve witnessed firsthand how companies like Uber and Lyft have consistently exploited low-income drivers...
Bay Area residents have been gathering to stop the Alameda County Sheriff from executing an eviction order against unhoused residents who live on an approximately 1.47...
I am a domestic violence survivor. The malady, “a post-slavery relic,”[1] does not skip generations. I watched my father hit my mother. The term “beaten” doesn’t quite...
California voters will decide whether or not to go tougher on crime through a November ballot initiative that makes changes to previous propositions and bills designed...
The Sausalito Marin City School District (SMCSD) provides quality education for the children of our community. To help support the unification and integration process and address...
It’s no secret there is a housing affordability crisis in California. And a homelessness crisis of epic proportion. Both deeply and disproportionately affect Black communities across...
Ahead of the November election, a group of dialysis nurses and patients have come out in strong opposition to Proposition 23. If passed, Prop. 23 would...
Aja Smith, a Black Republican running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, has filed a complaint against Facebook, Twitter, and Google. In her...
Two years after California lawmakers passed the first consumer data privacy act in the country, voters have a chance to expand the law or leave it as it is....
Sean Broadus and his brother Evan Broadus live near the Gilbert Lindsay Community Center in South Central, Los Angeles, less than 20 minutes from where their...
Isaiah Thornton Montgomery (1874–1924) was born on Davis Bend, a Mississippi plantation was owned by Joseph Davis. Isaiah’s father, Benjamin Montgomery, managed the Davis plantation until...
When I heard the sad news of the death of former Oakland A’s player Joe Morgan it reminded me of last week’s talk with Dave Kaval,...
A group of African American entrepreneurs and business people have put together a history-making proposal to purchase the Oakland Coliseum for $92 million to create the...
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