By Ise Lyfe People back in my hometown region of the Bay Area as well as people all over are mourning the loss of a dear...
OCCUR Holds “Board Report Card Clinic” for Faith-based Community OCCUR and The San Francisco Foundation will host their fifth “A Model Built on Faith” Workshop on...
The Foothill Seminary commercial corridor is going to get a facelift. In 2004, District 6 Councilmember Desley Brooks, in partnership with David Glover of OCCUR and...
The organizations spotlighted this year by Peacemakers Inc. were Rainin 3zz, a West Oakland-based AAU girls Basketball team coached By Darren Vance and represented by 13-year-old...
Steven Parker, a native of Richmond, has witnessed the city in its prime when the government was functioning effectively for its residents. But he says that...
For 29 years, Larry Moore has been struggling to clear his record after a bureaucratic mistake attached another person’s criminal record to his name. In that...
The SF African American Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Juneteenth Business and Awards Luncheon at the West Bay Conference on 1290 Fillmore Street in...
The Marin City Fatherhood Council is presenting a Father’s Day Breakfast, “Leaving A Legacy,” Saturday, June 14 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. The breakfast will take...
District 6 residents have observed how workers have been removing a play structure at Burkhalter Park on Edwards Avenue. Councilmember Desley Brooks says there is a...
Media, labor groups and civic leaders were almost breathless with enthusiasm in their praise for the Brooklyn Basin development, 3,100 units of mostly market rate housing...
A coalition of merchants with businesses in the Fruitvale, San Antonio, and Eastlake districts along International Boulevard are calling for the city and AC Transit to...
Former City Councilmember Donna Powers is considering a return to Richmond’s City Council. Powers first joined the local political fray in 1991 with a run for...
District 5 Supervisor London Breed and Mayor Ed Lee this week announced a plan to provide $2.5 million to renovate more than 160 currently unused public...
The City of Oakland has agreed to $110,000 settlement in police shooting death of Alan Blueford, 18-year-old man who was preparing to graduate from Skyline High...
Alongside students two or three times his age, 14-year-old King Burdett Jr. took home two certificates in microscopy at a Merritt College Microscopy Program graduation ceremony...
By Wilson Riles Jr. This Mayoral election ought to galvanize community understanding of the best way to utilize taxpayer dollars to achieve a significant crime and...
Community members turned out last Saturday to celebrate the dedication ceremony of a new baseball field at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park. Funded by...
U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez and Congresswoman Barbara Lee on Tuesday visited the Cypress Mandela Training Center in Oakland, a nationally recognized program that...
Four experienced Oakland construction workers have been trying for years to qualify for jobs that have been promised to local residents on the Oakland Army Base...
The Stockton Thunder, proud ECHL affiliate of the NHL’s New York Islanders, AHL’s Bridgeport Sound Tigers, and proud member of the Stockton community have donated $678,171...
The office of Concerned Black Men on 1305 Franklin Street in Oakland was packed with community leaders, students and parents for the CBM Cares Mentoring Program...
The Marin Housing Authority recently announced the results of the Resident Council Elections. The Council at Golden Gate Village will be Adriana Campos, Beverly Freeman, Nicole...
The Omnira Institute (OI) will hold its annual Juneteenth celebration in Oakland on Saturday June 14. This ritual of remembrance observes the roots of freedom for...
The public is invited to attend an afternoon of music, food and friends to support the first annual Donors 4 Peace Fundraiser on Saturday, May 31...
Benjamin Todd Jealous, Venture Partner of the Kapor Center for Social Impact and former NAACP President and CEO, will deliver the commencement address at the 2014...