Courtesy of NY Daily News and Huffington Post Black history was made at this year’s Academy Awards. Mahershala Ali, accepting the best supporting actor trophy on...
By Ashley Nash Center for Elders’ Independence (CEI) participant Anthony Fleming joined staff and seniors recently at the center’s Josie Barrows Center for a Black...
The Art Of Living Black, a well established Bay Area Black Artist’s Exhibition and Self-Guided Art Tour, is hosting open studios at several locations in the...
Robert A.D. Schwartz, local business businessman, philanthropist, patron of the arts, and jazz musician, died last Saturday, Feb. 18 at the age of 92. Born in...
Three times a week, a group of 10 students head to the park for the 100 Citizens program, a free one-hour workout led by San...
By Sandra Messick, UC Berkeley News The standing-room-only crowd was blessed by Corrina Gould, a member of the indigenous Chochenyo and Kerkin Ohlone, and Auntie Stella,...
Sister Makinya Sibeko-Kouate, a popularize of Kwanzaa, educator and radio host, died on Feb. 4 at the age of 90. Born on July 1 to Turner...
Courtesy of The Richmond Standard El Cerrito High speedster Kaylah Robinson dazzled again on the national scene over the weekend, placing third in the girls...
Faith leaders and community leaders are coming forward to express the solidarity of Jews, Muslims and Christians – in Oakland and across the nation – in...
Students at Coliseum College Prep Academy, a public high school in East Oakland, celebrated Black History Month last Friday by putting an assembly for the entire...
By Carroll Fife, Oakland Justice Coalition March 7 could be a record day for Oaklanders. That is the day that the Oakland Council will vote...
By Carl Anthony Under the new federal administration, we wake to growing attacks against marginalized communities, vulnerable bodies and an already unstable planet. To resist the...
Maybelle Louise Broussard, a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority for 84 years, died on Feb. 9. She was 102. Mrs. Broussard was born March...
Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) introduced AB 918, the ‘California Voting for All Act,’ which would be the first of its kind in the country to provide...
The Oakland City Council this week unanimously passed a Resolution urging the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) to divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)....
By Rushawn Walters, Howard University News Service As a young girl growing in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a small town of 44,000 and 130 miles west Boston, Stephanie...
By Wade W. Nobles, Ph.D., Ifagbemi Sangodare, Nana Kwaku Berko I, and Bejana, Onebunne It is worth noting that as we enter this Black History Month,...
Richmond residents have the opportunity to receive fresh locally grown food while supporting local agriculture and community and school gardens. The local community has been working...
The Salesian boys and girls teams, along with the Kennedy High boys team, won their respective Tri-County Athletic League titles last Saturday. The No. 1-seeded Salesian...
State Senator Bill Dodd (D-Napa) has introduced a bill to help meet California’s teacher shortage by allowing community college districts to offer teacher credentialing programs. “As...
By Brandon Aninipot This past Sunday, a few of MACK’s State Championship football players, cheerleaders, and other students from the OUSD Alternatives in Action Program...
Bobby Seale, who co-founded the original Black Panther Party 50 years ago, is scheduled to take part in two Black History Month events in Richmond next week,...
By Sally Douglass Arce Justin is a 12-year-old African American boy living in the East Bay, who is in a fight for his life. Last year...
The Greenlining Institute’s new building provides space to several community organizations Last Friday, The Greenlining Institute hosted a grand opening event at its newly renovated building...
By Anna Gorman, California Healthline Legislation to be introduced in the state Senate Friday would set California on a path toward the possible creation of...
