The Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund will offer grants of at least $10,000 to every eligible entertainment venue in San Francisco, which have been struggling...
We have been working with customers with past-due balances for more than a year and will continue these efforts months after the protections expire. PG&E will...
Supporters of the legislation say, with hundreds of thousands of new unemployment claims being filed across the country, unemployment aid is still a necessary part of...
“We want to make sure that the rescue package is successful in what it set out to do,” Pelosi said.
Aside from the council, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf identified her priorities for the 2021-23 budget, which she defined as holistic community safety, a responsive, trustworthy government...
“While we reported on the 73 million children in the U.S. in 2019, which is 22 percent of the nation’s population, we also note that 2020...
Alameda County Board of Supervisors President Keith Carson on March 12 said the board’s priorities for spending the money are the health of residents and food...
Black financial services and regulatory experts announced Monday the formation of the Black Bank Fund (BBF) and National Black Bank Foundation (NBBF), tandem initiatives to nurture...
The political action committee of the Black Economic Alliance (BEA) endorses political candidates whose work supports prosperity and economic security for Black Americans. Launched in 2018,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Trump’s poll numbers indicate he will have an uphill battle defeating Joe Biden. In 2016, Hillary Clinton lost the electoral college but won...
With the federal COVID-19 rent protections provided in the CARES Act about to expire, any plan to assist tenants who have fallen behind on their payments...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Congress authorized a $10 billion loan to the postal service as part of a coronavirus relief package. Still, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin steadfastly...
Proposition 15, the “Tax on Commercial and Industrial Properties for Education and Local Government Funding Initiative,” is on the Nov. 3 ballot in California. If Californians...
Food producers using images of Black people in their branding decided to change those images on Wednesday. Hours after PepsiCo announced that it would retire the...
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...
The term “gig” has its modern origins in music. Jazz musicians in the early 20th century used to refer to any job that paid money as...
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...
M’Dears Bakery & Bistro fills the air in its South Los Angeles neighborhood with smells of fried chicken, French toast, and homemade desserts. “It was very...
On March 16, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded its worst lost since 1987. According to CNN, “US stocks ended sharply lower on Monday, with...
According to the Federal Reserve, large, white-controlled banks like Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo with $6 trillion in total assets, are the...
As a result of historical discrimination and public policy, the majority of African Americans in Alameda County live in high poverty, economically disadvantaged neighborhoods that lack...
Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration has plans on paper to help the homeless get off the streets. But in reality, the administration’s approach has been and remains...
Editor’s Note: The POST Newspaper Group, in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau, will publish a series of articles on the upcoming 2020 census. Readers can...
Mayor Libby Schaaf directed the city administration to make “inappropriate contributions” to her favored nonprofit organization, The Oakland Promise, bypassing the Oakland Municipal code and paying...