Workers at Berkeley’s Whole Foods grocery store on Telegraph Avenue have expressed concerns for their safety and are claiming inadequate clean-up and dissemination of information. Five...
COVID-19 has added more strain to the recycling industry, which has been overwhelmed by recycling product bans and stricter quality guidelines due to the enactment of...
A team of investigators and researchers at the University of California Berkeley’s School of Public Health have launched a new study to better understand the current...
A team of investigators and researchers at the University of California Berkeley’s School of Public Health have launched a new study to better understand the current...
On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission largely adopted suggestions put forward by The Greenlining Institute to use $5 million from the California Advanced Services Fund...
We’ve heard it, perpetually-year after year, decade after decade, generation after generation—the African American community is the most maligned and underrepresented population per capita, in US...
The COVID-19 pandemic is hitting the African American community especially hard due to stark health disparities that were widespread well before this pandemic. Our Black community...
“God is our refuge and strength…therefore we will not fear.” Psalm 46: 1-2 Much has been discussed about the coronavirus and how it has impacted grocery...
As the faithful of the Abrahamic traditions world over have been grappling with the impact of the COVID0-19 pandemic on their religious observances—Passover, Easter and Ramadan...
The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) highest governing body announced last week that it is moving toward allowing student-athletes to receive compensation for endorsements and promotions....
“To be honest, we are victims of a legal system that is antiquated and unprepared for the complexity of modern life,” said Lisa MacCarley, probate attorney...
She was selfless in her caring for newborns, knowing that the life that welcomed them was threatened by devastation with mothers living in poor neighborhoods and...
Does California have a “legacy of unequal treatment” of minorities and women? That’s language from Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5 (ACA-5) introduced by Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber...
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...
Peggy Cohen-Thompson, a Vallejo, Calif., civic leader and current president of the Solano County Office of Education (SCOE), has accomplished more in her early career than...
The response to COVID-19 has laid bare, once again, the glaring economic inequalities we live with every day. An essential new institution is public banking —...
More than 340 teachers — members of the Oakland Education Association (OEA) — joined with parents, students, and other community members this week to send a...
The City of Oakland is teetering on the precipice of financial ruin, according to a report issued by the Oakland City Auditor earlier this month, confirmed...
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....
Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California was the first state in the nation to secure Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding to place...
Out-of-work gig workers in California whose employers have not paid into the state’s unemployment insurance fund — as well as Californians without jobs who have run...
African American-owned restaurants across California will be able to participate in a new state program that contracts eateries to prepare meals and deliver them to vulnerable...
In the probate court system, it shouldn’t take two years to decide which relative should be awarded conservatorship over an elder. But considering an elder,...
What happened to living for the weekend? Where did hump day go? When will sports return? When will these kids return to school? Where can I...
Throughout a career that began during a time when segregation was strictly enforced and the modern Civil Rights Movement was still in its infancy, Benjamin O....