West Oakland Rocks ‘Friday Night Live’, Despite Youth Center Hold Up

Despite funding issues forcing the West Oakland Youth Center to remain closed for now, last week staff kicked off Friday Night Live, a new series of...

Univison Television Has Most Viewers; El Mundo to Expand

Univision Television Network, a Spanish based network, was rated number one for the fourth consecutive week. With 1.8 million viewers under the age of 50, Univision...

Bay Area Writer On the Rise

Nancy LaRonda is a Bay Area native and a fiction and poetry writer on the rise. The youngest of six kids, she turned to writing as...

BlackSpit’s Paintings Provoke and Pay Homage

BlackSpit, a native of Washington, D.C, is a graduate of North Carolina A&T where he obtained a degree in Arts and Communications. He now uses his...

Local Filmmakers Explore Meaning of Oakland’s First Fridays

A monthly art walk is probably the last place most people would expect a shooting to occur, but in Oakland last February, that is exactly what...

First Missionary Baptist Choir Hosts Summer Musicale

1.5 Million Celebrate Historic Court Decisions at SF Gay Pride

By Jesse Brooks San Francisco’s 43rd annual Gay Pride celebration drew over 1.5 million people in a jubilant expression of the theme, “Embrace, Encourage, Empower,” as...

Richmond’s Juneteenth Family Day Parade and Festival draws 10,000

African-American Male Couple Are Pride’s Grand Marshals

By Lee Hubbard The grand marshals at this year’s Pride parade will be a couple, Perry Lang and Ken Monteiro, the first African Americans to be...