By Post Staff and Kaiser Health News Oakland City Councilmembers Annie Campbell Washington and Larry Reid, backed by a coalition of health groups, announced this week...
The Oakland Unified School District and AC Transit came to an agreement Wednesday afternoon – with the help of the City of Oakland – to save...
Caption: Chris Jackson, a member of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE Action), was one of the speakers at a press conference Tuesday at...
Calling for a new “Department of Violence Prevention (DVP),” City Councilmember Lynette Gibson blasted Mayor Libby Schaaf”s budget for proposing millions in additional spending on enforcement...
Caption: Authors of the Soda Tax Measure HH were Oakland City Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan, Desley Brooks and Annie Campbell Washington. In a presentation at this...
By Manny Otiko | California Black Media The city of San Francisco has announced a new ordinance last week that cracks down on tobacco sales. The...
A tent fire that broke out Monday night at a regulated campground at 35th & Magnolia streets destroyed 12 tents. The cause of the fire...
Rebecca Kaplan Auctions Warriors tickets to help survivors Oakland is still struggling to resettle the survivors of the San Pablo Avenue fire that killed four people...
The West Oakland San Pablo Fire Relief and Advocacy Team, composed of local pastors and leaders of community-based organizations, is seeking unite the community to raise...
The city went out of its way to acquire state-owned land to exclusively benefit the landlord’s company By Darwin Bond Graham, East Bay Express The...
The McClymonds High School community – including parents and students – took over the school board meeting Wednesday evening demanding the board hear their pleas to...
In order to help create opportunities for those directly impacted by the War on Drugs, Oakland Councilmember At-Large Rebecca Kaplan is hosting a community forum to inform...
Over 10,000 residents— mostly in low-income neighborhoods – have suspended licenses City agencies are joining together to conduct outreach to the city’s most vulnerable unemployed and...
Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan submitted a resolution proposing for Oakland to not do business with financial institutions that have direct investments in the Dakota Access Pipeline...
Unofficial results show that Kate Harrison has overwhelmingly won the District 4 seat on the Berkeley City Council, defeating her opponent 63.7 percent to 36.3 percent....
By Green the Church Booker T. Washington (April 5, 1856-November 14, 1915) founded Tuskegee University in the state of Alabama on July 4, 1881. In the controversial “Atlanta Compromise” he called...
By Cat Brooks It is no longer questioned that the war on drugs has disproportionately impacted Black, Brown and poor people. What is less understood...
In the angry aftermath of the city’s eviction of a homeless encampment in North Oakland, Councilmember Noel Gallo and Joe DeVries, assistant to the City Administrator,...
Ongoing programing at the West Oakland Youth Center, an island of services for some of the city’s young people most in need of job training and...
Housing Authority wait lists are opening up as housing demand continues to outpace supply, especially for lower-income residents. The federal government’s long-term disinvestment in public...
Courtesy of Telesur In an age of rising higher education costs, San Francisco has become the first city to make community college free. The announcement comes...
The State of California recently released the 2015-2016 performance report for the state’s federally funded local workforce development services, which found that the city’s...
In January, Mayor Tom Butt represented the City of Richmond in Sacramento at two state-wide environmental policy meetings. The mayor met with the League...
By JP Massar Groundbreaking legislation that will put limits upon the local surveillance state is up for consideration in the Bay Area these next...
Alameda County Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis presented a report this week on the correlation between poverty, substandard housing and health inequities in Oakland neighborhoods, speaking...
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