Thousands of people took to Oakland streets beginning May 29 for what was largely a peaceful protest against the death of George Floyd, a Black man...
The Lonay Tenant Council (LTC) and supporters formed a caravan of over 40 vehicles and several bikes that started in Oakland last Sunday to protest at...
Across the entire county, Black Americans have been crying out for specific data on the impacts of the coronavirus on their communities due to high rates...
Protesters and pastors across California as well as angered citizens and politicians — including Gov. Gavin Newsom — have all responded to the violent death of...
As protesters demonstrated in at least 140 cities across the country in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other recent cases...
Thousands of people took to the Oakland streets May 29 for what was at first a peaceful protest against the death of George Floyd, who...
Today there is a national outcry about the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The public condemnation has forced a belated response. Those accused of his murder finally...
On Fri May 22 to Sat May 23, housed and unhoused protestors gathered outside Palms Motel for a little over 16 hours to call for 37MLK,...
As a caravan of organizers departed a Dollar Tree parking lot in Oakland with various rent strike signs and flags attached to their vehicles Friday, May 22, a...
Oakland Police Department (OPD) officers detained and handcuffed two volunteers last Saturday who were maintaining a freshwater supply for a large community of unhoused residents that...
Oakland has experienced high rates of displacement and gentrification of Black neighborhoods, and deep East Oakland is where the largest population of Black residents reside. According...
Tenants who rent from Sullivan Management Company (SMC) East Bay, have founded the SMC Tenants Council, unifying to make collective demands including that the company cancel...
Approximately 200 people gathered in front of San Francisco City Hall on May 1, to protest the stay-at-home measures put in place to slow the spread...
The Frederick Douglass Family Initiative (FDFI), an organization the social reformer and writer’s descendants founded to keep his legacy alive, commissioned the award-winning African American concept...
A shocking video of a police officer beating a 14-year-old African American boy over a Swisher tobacco cigarette is being shared across social media platforms around the world....
Black People are being infected and dying at disproportionate rates from COVID-19. This past Saturday, Community Ready Corps (CRC) and The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) virtually...
The media has just discovered that the coronavirus is far more deadly to blacks and Latinos than to whites. Twice as deadly in New York City,...
We are in a critical, yet transformative time in human history right now. As a result of COVID-19, the very systems we depend on are being...
After four months of not paying rent in a unified strike, tenants at a Fruitvale district apartment building in Oakland celebrated on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020,...
Oakland’s Poor People’s Campaign teamed up with student and community volunteers to host a teach-in discussing voting, housing community, and education — all hot button issues...
Black Solidarity Week (BSW) is here and unlike inspirational quotes and memes found thru social media and on the internet, the concept is a living and...
A small group of advocates for unhoused residents gathered outside of The Evictors and The Law Offices of Alan J Horwitz on Monday Jan. 27 to...
Even though we are amid the season of giving, the Oakland A’s have perennially given back to the Bay Area as a year-round corporate policy and...
Mistah F.A.B. hosted his 15th annual Toys for Joy Christmas giveaway at 45th and Market Streets in West Oakland on Monday, December 24. Mistah F.A.B. says...
Dozens of activists, including many disabled protesters, blocked roads and shut down the PG&E headquarters in San Francisco for hours Monday, demanding the utility company stop...