Leave me alone. That’s what you’d like to tell just about everybody right now: go away. Stop talking to me. Don’t fuss, quit fighting, put away...
When photojournalist Wesaam Al-Badry, a first-year student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, went to rural North Dakota to photograph a Native American family struggling...
Richmond High’s inspiring young band director won an emerging educator award this month from the California Music Education Association, a recognition that doesn’t surprise his students...
Marriage? Not interested. Nope, you’ve tried it and it’s not for you. Neither is love, apparently, as evidenced by the string of awful dates you’ve had...
UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ announced the appointment of Cal Performances’ new executive and artistic director, with this letter to the campus: “It is my great...
Richmond artists are producing a national fine arts exhibition at the Marin Society of Artists in San Rafael that opens Jan. 10. Richmond residents Gail...
On view from Jan. 10 to March 28, “Inside Insights” will showcase some 100 works including original paintings, prints and sculptures by San Quentin inmates who...
Oakland’s Youth Poet Laureate program is a citywide effort to celebrate literacy through poetry and connect young writers to far-reaching opportunities. Each year the program accept...
May I have that, please? That’s what you say when you want something, and people are impressed by your manners. You’re a kid who never just...
On December 5, at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, the William + Flora Hewlett Foundation hosted a panel discussing High Performance: The State of the...
The Paramount will be fully lit for a New Year’s Eve celebration with the 70’s Soul Jam, featuring The Stylistics, Chi-Lites featuring Marshall Thompson, William Hart’s...
Friends of Negro Spirituals invites the public to its free, wheel chair accessible, introductory celebration of its 20th Anniversary on Saturday, Nov. 3 from 1 p.m....
On Thursday, Oct. 18, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books will present “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart: an Evening with Alice Walker,” hosted...
The lives of Black women in American politics are remarkably absent from the shelves of bookstores and libraries. “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics” is...
Concert goers rocked the night away on Thursday at San Francisco’s AT&T Park with the band synonymous with Americana California; soft rock band the Eagles. Along...
A crowd watches and dances as MJ’s Brass Boppers performs at the Black-Eyed Pea Festival in 2016. Photo courtesy of Omnira Institute. “Laughin’ to keep from...
By Charles Curtis Blackwell Gentrification was in its early stages. Most of us not knowing it would escalate to what it is today, being the desecration of the...
(Left to right) Councilmember Lynette McElhaney, Issa Pointer, Ruth Pointer, Sadako Pointer, and Mayor Libby Schaaf celebrate 18 years of Art + Soul and honor the...
“It is easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.” – Nelson Mandela While the world was celebrating Nelson...
Left to Right – Civil Rights Attorney John Burris, Oakland to Yale Graduate Akintunde Ahmad and Producer Ephraim Walker. Photo by Brandon Aninipot. Oakland native...
A woman performs a traditional coffee ceremony of Eritrea and Ethiopia at Meaddi Club’s one year anniversary. Older adults from throughout Alameda County gather to celebrate...
International music leaders celebrated the “Roots from the West” program on July 1, at Allen Temple and gave the African American Heritage Hymnal to Per Oddvar...
Homegrown Heroes: Oakland A’s at 50 Honors three iconic players: Dennis Eckersley, Rickey Henderson (pictured above) and Dave Stewart. In celebration of the Oakland Athletics’ 50th anniversary...
The ladies of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. brought their blue and white along with The Color Purple to MetWest High School in Oakland in May...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened on April 26, 2018 in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. It is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy...
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