Services include criminal record expungement for some marijuana-related crimes; job training and placement help; mental health treatment; addiction services; housing placement and more.
Sponsored by Assemblymember Jose Medina (D-Riverside), AB 101 requires all public school districts and charter schools serving students in grades 9 through 12 to offer culturally...
“There have been changes made in Oakland’s police department by the chief that I believe will increase not only the graduation success rates among academies, but...
Inspired by Robert F. Smith's 2019 “Morehouse Gift,’ Initiative will provide STEM majors at 9 HBCUs a more equitable alternative to fund their education
Four influential California Black women came together for a Facebook Live conversation focused on the Delta variant of COVID-19, the safety of vaccines and how they...
African American writers and poets have for years openly challenged cultural stigmas, creating classic works of literature. Many have earned Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, NAACP and...
The importance of support for those with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities to lead independent lives is something that a Stockton non-profit organization called The Arc...
Founded in 2007, Water and Education International (WEI), devotes its time and resources to providing water and education to villages in developing countries like Haiti.
Sen. Wilk said “The biggest winners today are the college athletes who will now have control over their own financial futures.”
Mrs. Vivian Spenser-Odom was born Sept. 8, 1920, in Brenham, Texas. She is the 11th of 14 children born to William Landis Spenser and Mrs. Viola...
To meet the increasing demand for advanced leadership in the field of nursing and healthcare, Holy Names University is proud to announce the launch of its Doctor...
Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan, Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas, President Pro Tempore Sheng Thao, and Councilmember Carroll Fife coordinated with community members who called in to...
Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan, Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas, President Pro Tempore Sheng Thao, and Council Member Carroll Fife, in coordination with extensive community support, are...
She was a retired teacher, serving in Oakland at Horace Mann Elementary School for over 20 years. She was a member of North Oakland Missionary Baptist...
Social justice lawyer Janani Ramachandran is a runoff election for State Assembly District 18, which will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 31.
Millions of students are returning to in-person classes at California’s public schools, amid parents and teachers’ fears about the inability to vaccinate children under 12 and...
Millions of California students, teachers, administrators are returning to school this week.
The West Contra Costa Unified School District welcomed back more than 27,000 students and 3,000 staff members for its first day of 100% in-person instruction in...
In an effort to ensure safety as the Delta variant has caused a surge in COVID-19 cases both nationally and locally, Oakland parents and teachers are...
As Oakland schools struggle with a rocky opening of the new school year amid a continuing pandemic that is spreading among students and teachers, the Board...
In an opinion issued August 13, the arbitrator found that the district violated that M.O.U. by failing to assign the vast majority of substitute teachers who had applied or attempted...
To meet the needs of the developmentally disabled, Milestones devotes their time and resources into providing innovative services and advocacy in order to move forward within...
HAD’s mission is to stop this cycle of abuse in its tracks because studies have shown that children who witness abuse are more likely to perpetuate...
Pippin’s work, according to some scholars, depicted the Black experience in America “without an assumption of inferiority or attitudes of protest or satire acquired in defense...
Newsom’s new mandate requires all school employees to either provide proof of vaccination or submit to weekly testing.