San Leandro will host a town hall meeting Monday, May 11 from 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. for residents of City Council Districts 1, 2 and...
The East Bay Regional Park District took a major step forward this week in its long-term public safety efforts to reduce fire hazards in the East...
Evan Serpick, ROLLING STONE BALTIMORE (Rolling Stone) — Two weeks after protests in Baltimore brought national attention to the death of Freddie Gray while he...
Mark Puente and Meredith Kohn, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — When Baltimore State’s Attorney Maryliyn Mosby charged six police officers in the...
Port of Oakland Commercial Real Estate Director Pamela Kershaw and Chief Financial Officer Sara Lee have been selected as honorees for the 2015 Most Influential Women...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist There are many different manifestations of racism in America and throughout the world. But there is not a...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Answering my Critics Dear Alma, I have worked for a large cleaning company for the past 17 years. Our supervisor...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s main opposition group on Sunday chose its first black leader at a party congress, seeking to...
Justin Neuman, BLEACHER REPORT (BleacherReport.com) — Man, are the NBA playoffs great or what? This weekend’s slate of games featured several crazy buzzer-beaters and a Hall...
Chris Chase, USA TODAY (USA Today) — LeBron James’ buzzer beater in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals was perhaps a season-saving shot that was both...
Allie Malloy and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Michelle Obama gave an impassioned and personal commencement speech Saturday on the trials she’s faced as the first African-American...
BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — The Baltimore riots threw a spotlight on the poverty and isolation of the African-American community where the unrest began last...
By Manny Otiko/California Black Media When LaRita Reed graduated from UCLA, she was excited about earning her degree and all the possibilities that lay ahead....
San Francisco, CA – One inning got away from him. Madison Bumgarner struck out ten a season-high, this season. But did not come away with the...
by Juan Haines, San Quentin News Managing Editor Malachi Dads is a faith-based Christian inmate self-help program that teaches inmates ways to interact and mend relations...
Raymond Wong, MASHABLE (Mashable) — If you thought the $35 Raspberry Pi 2 was a small and cheap computer, think again. Next Thing Co.’s open-source...
Jonathan Paye-Layleh and Krista Larson, ASSOCIATED PRESS MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — On the day Mercy Kennedy lost her mother to Ebola, it was hard to...
Sean Highkin, BLEACHER REPORT CHICAGO (BleacherReport.com) — Derrick Rose didn’t celebrate after he made the biggest shot of his career. With three seconds left in regulation, he sprinted...
Doug Feinberg, ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS (AP) — The WNBA has been thrown into the national conversation about domestic violence and sports, and now is...
Jim Suhr and Alan Scher Zagier, ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — To some, a makeshift shrine in the middle of the Ferguson street where...
The Black American Political Action Committee’s (BAPAC) Eighth Annual “Judge George D. Carroll Community Service Awards Reception and Fundraiser” will be on Thursday, May 14, 5:30...
By Richard Wembe Johnson, Folsom Prison As we daily witness police officers from around the country committing undeniable acts of aggression, assault and murder against...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee recently welcomed Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-Illinois), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, to the East Bay. Congresswomen Lee and Kelly, both...
San Francisco, CA – The Giants gave out another award tonight. Casey McGehee received the National League Comeback Player of the Year Award before the first...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee met this week with seniors at the West Oakland Senior Center in Oakland to hear their concerns and share with them the work...
