Race – more than any other demographic factor – determines levels of individual educational achievement, health and life expectancy, possibility of incarceration, and wealth in the...
Nineteen-year-old Berkeley High student Anthony Gaines sits inside a room beyond our understanding within his own mind and wonders why one of his best friends, his...
The San Leandro Public Library is holding an afternoon of traditional and period Celtic music on Saturday, Oct. 18 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. The...
Great Oakland Public Schools (GO), a nonprofit network of educators, families and community leaders, has endorsed four candidates for the Oakland Unified School District Board of...
Looking for a quality preschool experience for your child? The Manzanita Children’s Center State Preschool, located at 141 Drake Ave. in Marin City, is now open...
By Anthony Lazarus Charles Guthrie’s appointment as athletic director, along with new coaches, renovated facilities and an upgraded mascot, signals new momentum for athletics at SF...
The Oakland Raiders – in partnership with the National Football League Foundation and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) – on Monday presented the Friends of Oakland...
What can you say about tragedy? When it’s imminent, you brace yourself and hope to come out unscathed. In its aftermath, you mourn and, eventually, you...
Beginning in December of 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was one of the most important catalysts for radically charging the American civil rights movement. A language...
Innovative Collaboration with DonorsChoose.org will help generate up to $1 million for local public school teachers and students Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (NYSE: CVX) today announced...
By Anthony Lazarus, SFSU News San Francisco State University on Aug. 29 signed a memorandum of understanding with Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior (CETYS Universidad)...
Plans are moving forward to lease or sell the Oakland Unified School District property at Second Avenue near the estuary – which currently house the Dewey...
The Attend and Achieve Back to School event welcomed over 950 students Saturday who walked away with backpacks filled with notebooks, pencils and other necessary school...
Local hip hop artist Mistah F.A.B. recently held his annual “Back to School Block Party and Who’s House? Basketball Tournament” in North Oakland where over 1000...
Schroeder Hall captured the limelight this past weekend as its opening marked the newest chapter in the Green Music Center story.
By Barry Bergman, UC Berkeley News “I once had a very good professor who gave me very bad advice,” UC Berkeley sociologist Troy Duster said last...
The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) is scrambling to hire teachers and purchase new textbooks to ensure that every classroom has a teacher and books before...
Melony Wyatt – Moore, founder of KMK Family Licensed Daycare, says this year’s class marks a milestone for her business as it also represents the high...
New Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Superintendent Antwan Wilson spoke Sunday at Back to School Youth Covering Worship service held by the First African Methodist Episcopal...
By Anh Le It was a wonderfully sunny day as 17 children graduated recently from the Marin Learning Center Preschool in Marin City. The 45th Annual...
Members of the community are working to name the South Branch of the Berkeley Public Library Named for Tarea Hall Pittman. Tarea Hall Pittman, born in...
Janice Mirikitani, San Francisco’s second poet laureate and co-founding president of the Glide Foundation, has been named Diversity Scholar Visiting Professor at the University of San...
The future of American Indian Model Schools (AIMS), in doubt for months after its charter was revoked last year by the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD),...
By Jonathan Morales, SFSU From “Blue Jasmine” to “Star Trek” and “Planet of the Apes,” San Francisco is a top destination for filmmakers these days. According...
Touro University’s College of Pharmacy was recently awarded a $150,000 grant from the Joseph and Vera Long Foundation. The grant will allow the college to increase...