By Jesse Brooks Celebrating one’s historic roots is an opportunity to honor forbearers and connect to our rich legacy. However, usually missing from Black history are...
By Jesse Brooks National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day falls during Black history month to remind the public of the devastating toll HIV has taken and continues...
The Joyce Gordon Galley in Oakland will host “When Struggle Gave Improvisation the Blues,” a poetry performance theater play by poet and playwright Charles Curtis Blackwell,...
By Curtis Flannigan February is a good time to jumpstart a savings plan for the year as Feb. 25 kicks off America Saves week, a national...
Celebrating 14 years in the Bay Area, Rhythm Tap Hall of Fame is offering traditional tap dance classes starting in February. The nonprofit organization promotes the...
Kyla Wheatfall’s father was killed by a police officer when she was 10 years old, but the 20-year-old Oakland resident has found a way to forgive...
Local seniors and activists are holding a Town Hall Meeting to say: No Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, Monday, Feb. 18 at 1 p.m....
By Lee Hildebrand Former East Bay resident Dayna Stephens is, at age 34, one of the most gifted jazz tenor saxophonists of his generation. Now living...
Jacqueline Sue will be reading and discussing her latest work, “A Dream Begun So Long Ago – The Story of David Johnson – Ansel Adams’ first...
Ray Menaster will be showing his reflective videos of Marin City during the 60’s and 70’s on Saturday, Feb.16 at 10 a.m. The videos convey the...
Fire Chief Teresa Deloach Reed of the Oakland Fire Department was the guest speaker at Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Black History Month event on Feb.1 in...
The San Leandro Public Library has selected Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” as the book for the community to read, as part of...
A free public performance of the Rotunda Dance Series will be held at noon, Friday, March 1 at San Francisco City Hall. The performance is hosted...
Arlene C. Ackerman, who served as superintendent of Washington, D.C. public schools from 1998 to 2000 and later led the school systems in San Francisco and...
By Post Staff Part I of 2 Tadd Scott is a teacher who sparks up his high school classroom with new activities. One day last fall,...
Keeping with the tradition of celebrating with music, creative costumes, food and colorful beads, The Village Project, The Fillmore Center and the Mayor’s Office of Economic...
The Richmond Public Library is offering an eight-week program where students will receive intensive study preparation from certified instructors and two practice tests for the S.A.T....
By Lloyd Madden The suspense is over, and Councilman Jim Rogers should be commended for displaying the courage to cast his vote for Jael Myrick while...
The Richmond Branch of the NAACP held its Annual Freedom Fund Membership Awards and Recognition Banquet this past Saturday night. This year, the branch recognized individuals...
By Kia Croom Bay Area residents don’t have to channel surf to get their reality television fix. Richmond natives Darius Johnson and his wife Christia’n Chambers-Johnson...
The induction ceremony for Judge Judy Johnson in the Superior Court of California Contra Costa County was held on Feb.1, the oath of office performed by...
Attorney General Kamala Harris has filed a civil lawsuit on1 against BP West Coast Products, BP Products North America, Inc. and Atlantic Richfield Company for allegedly...
By Tiffany Owens Engaging a younger generation about the biblical teachings on homosexuality may be today’s greatest challenge for the evangelical church. In a 2011 survey...
By Judith Scherr Berkeley’s historic downtown post office is for sale. Across the country, the cash-strapped United States Postal Service is selling property, slashing postal hours,...