Rev. Jesse Jackson is leading a group of community leaders in calling for an infusion of $7 million from the Quinn administration to keep Roseland Community...
The question for the book is “At what point did you fall in love with yourself?” and the genesis of that question really started with some...
The incomparable Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, perhaps the most acclaimed international ambassador of American culture performing today, returns to the Bay Area. Under the inspired...
By: Malaika Bobino San Francisco, CA – Two years ago Giants baseball was considered “torture” before they won the World Series in 2010. This season the...
Recently introduced to the works of Thomas Bradshaw, my jaw dropped. As I looked further into his celebrated portfolio, I discovered that he is poised to...
Attorney General Kamala Harris this week praised the passage of a bill she is sponsoring to upgrade and expand California’s prescription drug monitoring program as an...
By H. Geoffrey Watson, MD Local boxing trainer Virgil Hunter’s advice to young men on living a healthy lifestyle are recommendations that pack a punch. He...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee is opposing cuts to Social Security, called the chained CPI, that are included in the president’s 2014 budget proposal. The chained CPI is...
Arif Khatib (right), the founder of the Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame, ‘Jack London’ George Rowan, Jr. (center) and India Alston who was Mistress of Ceremonies,...
Sheree Murphy was honored as a Champion for Change and role model for her family and community by the Network for a Healthy California (Network)-Bay Area...
The Scepter Club’s Regina Chapter #67, Order of the Eastern Star Prince Hall Rite of Adoption State of California, is presenting an “Inspiring Women and Men...
Tal Kravitz (center, kneeling), Israeli musician, is surrounded by students of Oakland’s Hebrew Day School. He performed for children at the school to mark the celebration...
Maudelle Shirek, who served 20 years as an elected Berkeley leader and a lifetime as an advocate for justice, died last Thursday in a hospice in...
250 students from Oakland School’s 11 Transitional Kindergartens spent Friday, April 12 at the Oakland Zoo, sponsored by the Oakland Rotary Club. Thirty-five Rotarians led the...
Public speaker Drew Debro, 17, was recently presented with the Oakland Unified School District’s Distinguished Participation Award for “Demonstrating the importance of literacy and his eloquence...
Rowena Tatmon, of Oakland, (pictured with show host Drew Carey) recently won over $11,000 in cash and prizes on “The Price is Right” game show, which...
Guard Josh Akognon played well enough to impress the Mavericks. The Dallas Mavericks recently signed Akognon (5-11, 185), who originally signed a 10-day contract with Dallas...
The City of San Leandro will honor Earth Day 2013 by hosting or partnering on a number of springtime events. Residents can commemorate the occasion by...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week announced that 12-year-old Pavan Raj Gowda of Fremont is one of the recipients of the 2012 President’s Environmental Youth...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Sez The song always pops up when you least expect it. There you are, minding your own business, you hear a...
By Benjamin Todd Jealous The United States has five percent of the world’s people but 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. For the sake of our...
By Godfrey Lee John Lam, a dance soloist with the Boston Ballet, returned home to San Rafael to dance in the Marin Ballet 50th Anniversary Reunion...
John Isaiah Norwood, an eight-year-old third-grader at John Sinnott Elementary School in the Milpitas School District and recent Greene Scholar Science Fair award recipient, accomplished an...
Proceeds from the concert will support the Glide Foundation, which provides meals and other services for the homeless in the Bay Area Soul/Indy-Rock Recording Artist Leah...
By Kia Croom Michael Davenport Sr. is one of five individuals selected to be honored by the Judge George Carroll Community Service Awards Program, sponsored by...
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