Mayor Libby Schaaf will present this year’s annual Oakland Citizen Humanitarian Award to Regina Jackson for her outstanding work on behalf of the Oakland community at...
The community is invited to join Inner City Theater, Inc. as they bring another classic piece of American theater to life with their production of August...
Actor, comedian, writer, and radio talk show host Brian Copeland comes back to the stage this holiday season with an entertaining and humorous one-man show on...
Rallying to support Marcus Books – Oakland’s historic African American bookstore – Delroy Lindo hosted the “Black Men Speak” series last Saturday with Danny Glover, Shabaka...
The Urban Legends live performance talent competition is creating a platform for inner-city artists to express their creativity and be seen by the world. Organized by...
Saxophonist Steve Coleman, whose quintet performed last Sunday at SFJazz in San Francisco, was honored recently with a MacArthur Fellow, an award presented to talented...
Cooking since the age of fourteen, Chef Michael Midgley realized his life-long dream to open his own restaurant. Midgley’s Public House, located on the Brick-...
San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is celebrating the completion of its a six-month, $1.3 million makeover at a ribbon cutting ceremony featuring...
The Mare Island Museum is proud to announce the opening of their Spanish-American War Exhibit, highlighting the critical roll Mare Island played in a war that...
The Tiburon Film Society will present the documentary “Project: Ice” directed by William Kleinert on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015 at 6 p.m. The film...
The musical drama “Go Tell It! A Harriet Tubman Christmas Story” takes one back in time to the day before Christmas in 1854 when Harriet Tubman...
Organizers of the 50th anniversary of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) hope to inspire young people through literature with their upcoming celebration events this year. “We...
Dimensions Dance Theater, the Bay Area’s preeminent African- American dance company for more than four decades, is announcing a holiday showcase of student performances in celebration...
As the Bay Area prepares for the 50th Anniversary of the Black Arts Movement (BAM), the most radical artistic and literary movement in American history, Paul...
Iola James, president of the Patrons of the Arts and Humanities, donated $500 to the Oakland East Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra on opening night Friday, Nov....
A mural depicting the history of Filipinos in Vallejo was created by a renowned Filipino artist Eliseo Art Silva, with help from the community, and was...
“Cops and Robbers,” the new one-man play by hip-hop artist and police officer Jinho “The Piper” Ferreira, will be shown through Nov. 30, Sundays at...
Attitudinal Healing Connection (AHC), a nonprofit that has invested in positive change of the Oakland community through the arts, will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Saturday,...
The Phoenix Project of Marin is presenting an original theatrical play, “Oh How Things Change”, written by Marin City resident Aleasher Hightower, on Friday, Oct. 17...
Bay Area teen and host of a youth television program Christopher Xavier Earl-Rockerfeller, 16, of San Leandro was recently awarded with the Berry Gordy Family Foundation...
This year, your teachers say you’ve changed a lot. You’ve grown a couple of inches, which is the first thing they noticed. They say...
“The Morrie Movement: The Influence of ‘Wee Pals’ Cartoonist Morrie Turner” comes to the African American Center of the San Francisco Main Library’s from Nov. 8...
The final preparations are underway for the fourth annual Celebrate Stockton is Magnificent on Saturday, October 4th from 12pm to 3pm at Victory Park. Nearly 100...
Race – more than any other demographic factor – determines levels of individual educational achievement, health and life expectancy, possibility of incarceration, and wealth in the...
Michael Morgan, music director and conductor of the Oakland East Bay Symphony, was one of the presenters at the TEDxLivermore event last Saturday at Las Positas...