“Juneteenth is Freedom Day and a cause for celebration,” said Assemblymember Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D., chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus. “What is encouraging is...
A Juneteenth Festival was held June 19 at the Rocky Graham Park in Marin City. The event was organized by community members and was attended by...
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...
Oakland City Attorney Barbara J. Parker released new guidance to remind all Oaklanders that local, state, and federal civil rights protections remain in full force and...
“I can’t breathe,” pled George Floyd in Minneapolis and Erik Garner in New York City and Javier Ambler in Austin, Texas, before police killed them. Amid...
A local church is providing help to its community in the city of Richmond during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. St. John Missionary Baptist Church launched a...
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...
Local residents have joined with Assemblymember Rob Bonta to oppose a state bill that would have required the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) to permanently close...
Representatives of social justice organizations and individuals announced a civil rights class-action lawsuit Thursday against the City of Oakland in the wake of police violence during...
Marin County residents took to the streets June 2 in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis May 25, 2020. Like many of...
SURJ Marin (Showing Up for Racial Justice) conducted a car caravan on June 5, 2020, to protest the death of George Floyd and police brutality. Floyd...
[George] Floyd’s murder sparked peaceful demonstrations in cities across the country, demonstrations that, in Minneapolis and a few other places, turned toward riots. Chauvin and his...
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time.” James Baldwin...
Local residents are scrambling to oppose a state bill that they recently found out about that would require the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD)...
Alameda County, along with community and faith organization and the City of Oakland will support outreach for testing to West Oakland residents at the West Oakland...
On Monday, Dr. Geoffrey Watson surveyed the damage to his North Oakland medical facility caused by looters Saturday and Sunday nights, under the guise of protesting...
The future of the Oakland Police Commission could be decided by the City Council on Tuesday, June 9. Will the voters be allowed to strengthen the...
Thousands of people took to the Oakland streets May 29 for what was at first a peaceful protest against the death of George Floyd, who...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Kenneth brought the newspaper into the age of digital technology and ushered in an era of a new relevance to the publication with...
NNPA NEWSWIIRE — Twenty-five-year-old Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed while jogging after a former police officer and his son chased him down because...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The grants include $10.3 million awarded to 144 U.S local newsrooms as part of the COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program. The...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “In my second year at Howard, and very close to my screening test, I lost my mother and my father within months,” said...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Little Richard was a founding father of the genre of Rock n’ Roll from its inception. His influence included The Beatles, who opened...
THE AFRO — The campaign is a Call-to-Action and highlights the NAACP’s policy interests and supported legislation for African Americans and people of color, a large...
INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER — While we await the next steps of the criminal and administrative investigation of this shooting, we would encourage only peaceful responses to this...
