Nearly 500 volunteers worked on community gardens Monday, beautifying Richmond Greenway at the 6th Annual Martin Luther King National Day of Service, a project of Urban...
By Ken A. Epstein Tempers remain frayed and opinion divided over the City Council´s overwhelming vote this week to hire a controversial consultant Bill Bratton to...
Highway to Work (H2W), Alameda County’s summer and year-round youth employment program, has provided approximately 500 young people with employment opportunities over the past year. A...
By Carla Thomas As leaders from across the country and world came together in Washington D.C. to celebrate the commencement of the second term of President...
By: Malaika Bobino San Francisco, CA – It’s something out of a story book! Usually you read about this happening with a family whose last name...
Lavanial Williams, 17, was shot numerous times in the 300 block of Drake Avenue in Marin City early Friday. He died at the scene, lying on...
By Godfrey Lee Felecia Gaston, who has earned a reputation for bringing the arts to the community and especially to children who are underserved, on Friday,...
Celebrating 14 years in the Bay Area, Rhythm Tap Hall of Fame is offering traditional tap dance classes starting Feb. 9. The nonprofit organization promotes the...
As a part of the San Leandro Public Library’s 2013 Big Read, the library will be hosting “Ancestral Memories,” an exhibit of quilts by the African...
Wells Fargo & Company has expanded its support for United Negro College Fund (UNCF), the nation’s largest minority education organization, investing $3 million to help more...
A Bay Area newlywed couple, Kevin Weston and Lateefah Simon, has started a national effort to register 1,000 African Americans as possible bone marrow donors and...
By Carla Thomas Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi thanked her supporters recently at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio celebrating over 25 years of service, speaking with...
By Ashley Chambers Local government officials are responding enthusiastically to a New York law passed this week expanding a ban on assault weapons, making the state...
The Richmond Branch of the NACCP has announced that an award established to recognize individuals demonstrating acts of non-violence will go to Councilman Corky Booze (right),...
Chevron has announced that its 2012 Fuel Your School program has paid out $958,739, benefitting 960 local public school classroom projects and impacting 111,925 students in...
Commentary By Kia Croom On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., along with 53 members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Alabama...
SEEDS Community Resolution Center is partnering with Berkeley Adult School to offer community conflict resolution services and mediation training. The Spring 2013 training SEEDS Executive director...
Former U.S. attorney general Ed Meese says President Obama will risk impeachment if he goes too far on gun control. A fellow at the conservative Heritage...
By Danielle Savage Lifelong Medical Care center’s Community HealthCorps is presenting its first “We Dream: A Community Health Fair” this coming Monday, on Martin Luther King,...
The life of Joel Overall, whodied last week at 64, was celebrated by more than 1,000 in arousing “home-going” funeral service at Shiloh Christian Fellowship. Affectionately...
Clergy met with Councilmember Libby Schaaf recently to support a plan, authored by her and Councilmember Larry Reid, to hold additional Oakland Police Academies and to...
By J. Douglas Allen Taylor Are some members of Oakland City Council becoming disenchanted with Phil Tagami’s development of the Oakland Army Base? At least one...
By Post Staff Hundreds of protesters filled Oakland City Council chambers this week to oppose spending $250,000 to give a short-term contract to nationally recognized police...
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