The Oakland City Council voted unanimously this week to call on the California Legislature to close the corporate loophole in Proposition 13, California’s property tax law....
Sokhom Mao, 26, a commissioner on the Citizens’ Police Review Board and a former foster youth, has entered the race for Oakland’s City Council District 2...
The City of Stockton is seeking community comment on its Climate Action Plan and associated Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The Climate Action Plan calls for the...
Lupita Nyong’o won best supporting actress at Sunday’s 86th Academy Awards for her portrayal of a slave in 1840s Louisiana in “12 Years a Slave.” “12...
High above the San Francisco skyline, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women San Francisco chapter hosted its annual “Golden Girls ‘ Bridging the Generations...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee has filed to run for re-election in California’s 13th Congressional District. She has represented the district since 1998 “I am proud to live...
Did you know that one pint of blood can save up to three lives? That is what Eileen Randle tells everyone she comes into contact with,...
Alexis Wise and the Wise Girls recently presented their first fashion show, “An Evening of Fashion Expressions” on Saturday, March 1. The show was a fundraiser...
Legend. All-around entertainer. Activist. Educator. Pioneer. From the hit cartoon turned movie sensation, “Fat Albert,” to the iconic and pathbreaking television sitcom, “The Cosby Show,” it...
From porters to postal carriers, teachers to truck drivers, Oakland is a city built by hardworking men and women who have fought – not only for...
The City of Oakland has awarded loans of over $7 million to five affordable housing development projects that will serve families and people with special needs,...
By Associated Press The son of legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson can keep profits from the only two known photographs of his father, the Mississippi Supreme...
Diallo Mwathi Jeffery’s exhibit “Views of Oakland” – on display at Oakland City Hall until Feb. 28 – has an uncanny ability to capture those intangible...
By Rev. Willie A. Douglas The unfolding drama of how Afro-Americans took the raw material of their lives and organized what has become their strongest institution...
Robert Duncan passed peacefully on Feb. 17. He was 97. Robert Lee Duncan III was born on June 9, 1916 in Louisville, Kentucky, the oldest of...
Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby is the latest to join the growing field of candidates challenging Mayor Jean Quan in the November election. Ruby, 46, is...
Things are heating up in the Oakland mayor’s race. District 4 Councilwoman Libby Schaaf kicks off her campaign Saturday, March 1 at Penrose on Grand at...
Over 50 people attended Juan Pescao Stable’s “Sentimiento and Manana” Rumba performance last Sunday afternoon at the Prescott Joseph Center in West Oakland. During the performance,...
Stockton’s City Planning Commission on Feb. 13 approved an 82-unit project by unanimous decision, to serve the elderly low-income and special needs population. Located on the...
Brian Crowell, a Berkeley High School history teacher, is locked in a fight with his school and district over the Berkeley Peer Assistance and Review (B-PAR)...
Crime. Economic Struggles. Community Discouragement. Those are some of the challenges residents of Vallejo face, but according to local native Diane Blackmon, ways must be found...
Pamela H. Price, Grand Worthy Matron of the Golden State Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, Prince Hall Rite of Adoption of California, has scheduled...
By Richard Kevin Cartwright Walking through the wide expanse of nurtured and cultivated vegetable beds – a seemingly endless array of broccoli, an almond tree, lemons...
The HIV Story Project is presenting “Generations HIV,” a portable, interactive video storytelling booth. The booth is making the rounds across the nation, with a stop...
A traveling version of the popular exhibit, The Griots of Oakland – Voices from the African American Oral History Project, will be shown at McClymonds Youth...
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