Over 50 people attended a rally against new proposed legislation, called the Encampment Management Policy, outside of Oakland’s City Hall on Oct. 10 from 1:00 p.m....
A committee of local educators created by the Oakland Post Editorial Board has endorsed candidates for the Oakland Board of Education in all four open races...
California is expanding aid and protections to health care workers as the COVID-19 pandemic continues through two new laws and an executive order. Late last month,...
This statement was made to the Berkeley Planning Commission’s special meeting on the Adeline Corridor Plan on Sept. 16, 2020, represented as a “long-range…blueprint for the...
A common misconception of the criminal justice system is that it is as simple as guilty people admitting their guilt and innocent people going free. The...
These are challenging times for the best of us, but the difficulties fall heavily on leaders. Whether they are leaders of nations, states or cities, large...
This is a big election year. With all eyes on the presidential race, Californians can’t afford to lose sight of its state and local elections. These decisions need the same amount of consideration being given...
There was a point in that messy first presidential debate when Black folks were spectators as three old White men — Pres. Donald Trump, Joe Biden...
When you get your California election ballot soon – that’s if you don’t have it already –expect to see Kanye West’s name on it. The 43-year-old rapper and business mogul is...
President of the Oakland Tennis Council Larry Atkins is advocating for the homeless who have been living at Athol Plaza Park on 2nd Ave across from...
A group of supporters convened at a press conference and rally for Alameda City Council hopeful Amos White in front of Alameda’s City Hall on Saturday,...
A Brooklyn native and the oldest of four daughters, Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm graduated from Brooklyn Girls’ High (1942), Brooklyn College (1946), and Columbia University...
In the mid-1960s, the University of California, Berkeley, started its Educational Opportunity Program to target underrepresented applicants and combat its history of discrimination. Unsurprisingly, this program...
Most small businesses in California are very small. A whopping 95% of them are companies with less than 50 employees, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. Yet, these...
The world looks very different right now. From the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires that have destroyed parts of the West Coast to growing social unrest, we’re...
By a margin of two-to-one, likely Oakland voters believe that Oakland is headed down the wrong track and they overwhelmingly disapprove of the job being done...
The community committee to recommend electoral endorsements for City Attorney interviewed the candidates for that office. Based on our discussion, we asked civil rights attorney Walter Riley,...
Members of the teachers’ union, Oakland Education Association (OEA), are reacting angrily to letters from the school district top attorney they believe are intensifying antagonisms between...
Local labor and community leaders are denouncing ride-hailing corporation Lyft for funding a campaign to unseat Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan, who has a strong record for backing...
For 23 years, the Lend A Hand Foundation (LAHF) has carried out its mission, “To enhance the quality of life for low-income children, youth, and families...
2020 is a big election year. With all eyes on the presidential race, Californians can’t afford to lose sight of our state and local elections. These decisions need the same amount of consideration being given...
On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom nominated Martin Jenkins, a San Francisco native, and a former prosecutor and judge, to the California Supreme Court. If confirmed, Jenkins, 66, would be the third African American to...
With most of the conversation around the COVID-19 pandemic focused on relief within the next few months, some activists and researchers are looking to the future, asking: What should “back to normal” look...
It is obvious in this day and time that anyone with a phone can make a video. But, it’s not so easy to parlay that ability...
SMC East Bay Sent Residents Illegitimate Pay-Rent-or-Quit demands Members and supporters of SMC Tenants Council formed a car and bike caravan rally on Sunday to protest...
