Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. held their 35th Annual California State Meeting in Walnut Creek at the Marriott Hotel. Themed “Walking in Greatness,” the event’s tagline...
February is a powerful month in the African-American psyche. It is Black History Month, and it includes Valentine’s Day. This is a time when we could...
The Northern California Zeta Sigma Council hosted their inaugural Founder’s Day celebration at the Doubletree Hilton in Sacramento on Jan. 19. Members of Zeta Phi Beta...
In 2020, Michael Tilson Thomas is turning over the San Francisco Symphony baton to Esa-Pekka Salonen, the much sought-after Finnish conductor/composer, who led the orchestra on...
What can make a 6-year-old and a 78-year-old spend their day together at the Richmond Recreation Complex? The answer is chess. In what may be the...
The “Black History Seven” is a phrase I created to reference the same people we talk about, read about, and focus on every year during Black...
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...