Oakland Post staff members Adam Turner and Carla Thomas visited the Chauncey Bailey Memorial Exhibit at...
By Kitty Kelly Epstein In light of Oakland’s increase in homicides in 2012, the Oakland city administrator is asking the City Council to hire as a...
Courtesy of Reuters President Barack Obama proposed a new assault weap-ons ban and mandatory back- ground checks for all gun buyers this week as he tried...
By Danielle Savage Gaylynne Hudson, a laid off teacher who lives in Oakland, was facing immediate foreclosure of her home. With the help of friends who...
By Jesse Brooks The public is invited to participate in a conversation at the Bay Area’s first public showing of PBS’s Frontline documentary “End Game: AIDS...
By J. Douglas Allen Taylor While the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department is not required by federal law to hold suspected immigration law violators for pickup by...
By Jesse Jackson When President Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, his hand will rest not only on President Abraham Lincoln’s Bible, but...
Darrell Carl Burton, a former PG&E employee and a mentor to children, died Wednesday, Jan. 9. He was 68. Burton graduated in 1963 from Lincoln High...
About 50 middle school students from the East Oakland Leadership Academy had the opportunity last week to hear a performance by classical violinist and violist Nokuthula...
The award-winning Oakland Youth Orchestra is opening its season with a winter concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27 at Holy Names University in Oakland. The...
Special to the Post It was Jan. 3, the first day back from a week off for the holidays for Romeo Garcia, the new executive director...
By Lee Hildebrand There are two types of jazz jam sessions: the ones where the host calls out tunes in uncommon keys with difficult chord changes...
By Ashley Chambers In an age of diminished resources, church and nonprofit organizations face challenges when they seek to generate money to sustain services and programs....
By: Malaika Bobino San Francisco, CA – If there was any doubt as to why Forty-Niners coach Jim Harbaugh decided to go with the younger Colin...
Black Women Stirring the Waters, a Black women’s discussion group, will meet in Oakland at 1850 Alice St., Sunday, Jan. 20 from 1 p.m. to 4...
Larry Bryant (left), an advocate for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, is a straight Black man living with HIV. In 1986, he contracted HIV as an 18...
Professor Isaiah Ibeh of the University of Benin in Nigeria this week announced the development of a new drug that can allegedly “cure” HIV and AIDS....
The Idle No More movement for indigenous civil rights and environmental protection is quickly spreading across Canada, gaining support from groups in Oakland and across the...
By Karely Maribel Ordaz Salto At the age of 21, I was the first in my family to ever attend and graduate from a university, receiving...
By Elizabeth Fernandez, UCSF The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded the UC San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center a $36 million to support...
By Brian Bennett, Sacramento Bee Undocumented immigrants who are immediate relatives of American citizens will have an easier path to permanent residency under a new Obama...
By Denny Walsh and Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Claiming that the state has made substantial progress in solving its prison overcrowding problem, California officials asked a...
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