With six candidates running to represent District 3 for the Oakland City Council, McElhaney has her work cut out as an incumbent already in her second...
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles on the 2020 school board candidates, which will be published on the web and/on in...
On Aug. 27-28, The City of Oakland cleared five residents who were living in tents from Manila Avenue near Mosswood Park, but allowed them to move...
Before George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless others were killed by police this year, Joshua Pawlik was killed by the Oakland Police Department (OPD) on March...
On Aug. 21, the City of Oakland posted notices announcing plans to remove some unhoused residents who live just north of Mosswood Park Thursday, Aug. 27....
Former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick officially filed a lawsuit Aug. 19, alleging she was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for numerous whistleblower complaints regarding corruption and...
The San Francisco Fire Dept. was established in 1866 and it took almost 90 years before the first Black firefighter, Earl Gage Jr., was hired in...
Oakland City Council met virtually July 28 with many recommended resolutions. City Council President Rebecca Kaplan recommended a resolution to make the month of August, “American...
A campaign launching caravan called the People’s Procession made its way through West Oakland neighborhoods on Saturday, July 18 to officially announce Carroll Fife’s candidacy for...
Nearly 100 people gathered to dedicate the ‘All Black Lives Matter’ mural, Oakland’s largest, near the Lake Merritt Boating Center at 568 Bellevue Ave. on June...
Friday, June 12, the basketball icon Michael Jordan and his Jordan Brand committed $100 million over the next 10 years to organizations assisting Black people with...
In recent weeks, the call to defund the police has gone national. Major cities like Los Angeles and New York City have taken steps to...
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...
The application process is now open to local residents who want to serve on the Oakland Police Commission. The Police Commission was established in October 2017...
Last Tuesday, Oakland City Council unanimously approved an agenda item acknowledging the impact of the current health emergency on the African American community, yet declined to...
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...
There are various reasons COVID-19 is killing Black people at six times the rate of white people, including a lack of access to health care, and...
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...
Oakland’s Moms 4 Housing hosted an international online solidarity event called “Reclaim Homes from the US to the UK” with representatives from the Focus E15 Campaign...
The COVID-19 crisis is shining a bright and unforgiving light on the glaring economic and racial inequalities we live with every day. Public banking is a...
At her Wednesday press conference updating the public on COVID-19, San Francisco Mayor London Breed took a moment to wistfully recall the Easter Sundays of her...
Responding to the economic devastation that is hitting working-class communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the Oakland City Council has passed what may be...
The ravaging and rapid surge of the coronavirus, known as COVID-19, has altered the lives of nearly everyone globally. From mandated sheltering-in-place orders to the thorough,...
The San Francisco Foundation announced Monday that it has begun awarding grants from its SFF COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund. Less than two weeks after announcing the...
Oakland, CA – March 31, 2020, the City of Oakland announced the availability of emergency grants to help vulnerable small businesses weather the impacts of COVID-19....
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