Angry community members packed into the City Council chambers to defend East Oakland Councilmember Desley Brooks, while Council President Pat Kernighan could even not find the...
The treatment of prisoners in the U.S. has continued to worsen with the widespread placement of thousands of inmates in indefinite solitary detention is what is...
Univision Television Network, a Spanish based network, was rated number one for the fourth consecutive week. With 1.8 million viewers under the age of 50, Univision...
As I was finalizing my sermon last Sunday, I paused to listen to the George Zimmerman verdict. It was at this moment that I experienced how...
The East Oakland Rainbow Teen Center is located in a beautifully renovated site that was built in 45 days at a cost to the public of...
Nancy LaRonda is a Bay Area native and a fiction and poetry writer on the rise. The youngest of six kids, she turned to writing as...
Community members are responding angrily as news has began to spread that City Council President Pat Kernighan has called a special City Council meeting to reprimand...
David Glover and OCCUR’s reputation as a champion for low-income residents and neighborhood revitalization in Oakland made him and his staff natural partners for building a...
By DeWayne Dickerson I was talking to my kid on Sunday about the verdict of the George Zimmerman trial. She’s six. She asked me the most...
BlackSpit, a native of Washington, D.C, is a graduate of North Carolina A&T where he obtained a degree in Arts and Communications. He now uses his...
The world was stunned last Saturday when jurors in the George Zimmerman murder trial returned with a verdict after only 16 hours of deliberation. Zimmerman was...
Twenty members of Oakland’s clergy held a press conference Thursday in response to violence in the city and the recent shooting of 8-year old Alaysha Carradine,...
Based on a recommendation of the Alameda County Grand Jury, the Oakland City Council is considering a motion to censure Councilmember Desley Brooks for building a...
Students at Oakland Freedom School rallied to protest the Zimmerman trial in honor of Trayvon Martin around 1:30 PM. The march started at West Oakland Freedom...
One Million Call for Federal Charges Against Zimmerman By Benjamin Todd Jealous One million people. As of Tuesday morning, one million people have signed an NAACP...
Last Friday on a sunny morning at Martin Luther King Elementary School in West Oakland, more than 400 students joined by parents, teachers, and community leaders...
Nelson Mandela, the former South African president and anti-apartheid leader turned 95 today. Mandela is spending his birthday at a hospital in Pretoria and has been...
8-year-old Alaysha Carradine was at a sleepover with two other children and their grandmother in the Dimond District neighborhood when gunfire struck the apartment’s front security...
[cincopa AILAhP7crqho] A public outcry of justice has surged through the nation after George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges related to the killing of unarmed...
The Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) has made a decision that could result in shutting down City College of San Francisco in July...
If Trayvon Martin were not a young Black male, he would be alive today. Despite the verdict, it’s clear that George Zimmerman would never have confronted...
Richmond resident TyJae’ Chenevert received a full athletic scholarship to Louisiana Tech University this fall to play the position of ‘starting center’ for the Lady Techsters....
President Obama kicked off the summer with a high-profile environmental speech at Georgetown University. He put forth a plan to limit carbon emissions for coal-fired power...
To Whom it May Concern I have been a homeowner in Marin City for 17 years, and I have never had a problem with anyone here,...
Trayvoning By: Brea Hammonds Social Media has become the go to place for the latest news and the most popular trends. With the invention of Instagram,...
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