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...
The Community Democracy Project (CDP) is in the final stages of a signature gathering drive to place an amendment on next year’s ballot that, if approved,...
Where have the city’s funds for affordable housing gone? That’s a question City Council President Rebecca Kaplan and council members want to answer as they look...
The right to vote is fundamental to any democracy. Protecting that right — and making it easier to exercise it — ought to be a priority...
We just celebrated Veterans Day, paying tribute to the young men and women who have served our country. Across the country, families gathered at the...
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed Assembly Bill 539, putting restrictions on predatory lending practices in California that he says “create debt traps for families already struggling...
Black business owners often struggle to find one another and miss out on many opportunities to work together. Other times business owners have trouble finding their...
Some labor and business leaders — as well as residents of different communities around the state – are pushing back against green energy policies that Sacramento...
Advocates Fear Larger T-Mobile Will Abandon Low-Income Consumers and Consumers of Color The Greenlining Institute expressed sharp disappointment at the Justice Department’s decision to OK T-Mobile’s $26.5 billion...
California’s Democratic governor signed a law Tuesday requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns to appear on the state’s primary ballot, a move aimed squarely...
Working as a fireman on the Michigan Central Railroad, one of Elijah J. McCoy’s tasks was to lubricate locomotive engine parts using a handheld can. Having...
Spending for multi-year federal grant and state funding initiatives will be influenced by resident feedback State and federal funding is available to help counties address community issues...
The California statewide Youth And Family Civic Engagement Initiative, a joint program of the Dolores Huerta Foundation in Bakersfield and the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom...
