It’s 8 a.m., and children romp on the playground outside of Starr King Elementary, a public school nestled on top of Potrero Hill in San Francisco....
Alameda County’s recent first-ever Stone Soup Holiday Food Drive and Design Competition resulted in some inspired displays made entirely with boxes and cans of non-perishable food.
Oakland, CA – The Denver Broncos set an all time NFL record for points in a season. Peyton Manning set the NFL single-season in passing yards...
More than 800 students from the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) crowded into the Oracle Arena on Sunday at the Raiders last home game of the...
“Would you get behind something if you knew it had the power to change your neighborhood?” That’s the question posed by the Oakland Super Hero Mural...
Sacramento, CA – Down by seventeen points in the first quarter, the Kings rallied back to force overtime. Newly acquired Rudy Gay finally found a rhythm...
The family of 13-yr-old Jahi McMath sat in a courtroom Tuesday morning listening to the testimony of an independent medical expert confirm that their daughter was...
“Sweetie Pie, you in business!” Those were the words Cynthia Foreman heard from one of her mentors Lonnie Bates after he sold out of 100 of...
After a coalition of San Francisco voters rejected a waterfront condominium project across from the ferry building last November, a battle is now brewing over the...
Courtesy of Variety Grammy-winning musician and composer Yusef Lateef, one of the first to incorporate world music into traditional jazz, has died Monday at his home...
The Kwanzaa principle “ujima” means “to build and maintain our community together, making our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems, and solving them together.” Celebrating this...
December 18, 1972, after peace talks had broken down President Nixon started a massive bombing campaign over north Vietnam. These bombings came to be known as...
The Drew Gooden Foundation in partnership with Maurice Braxton hosted the annual Winter Wonderland Toy Drive, Sunday, Dec. 22 at the Booker T. Anderson Community Center.
I am headed to Khe Sanh firebase by taxi from the city of Hue to the mountains of Vietnam close to the Laotian border. It is...
A Vallejo resident was recently victimized in a phone scam in which the perpetrator claimed to be calling from the police department to warn residents to...
Santa and Mrs. Claus flew in by seaplane to Marin City on the afternoon of Thursday, Dec. 19, to deliver presents to 50 children enrolled in...
San Francisco. CA – An unbelievable yet spectacular way to end a game. NaVorro Bowman’s pick-6 off Matt Ryan was the play that sealed the Forty-Niners...
The holidays wont quite be the same after seeing the new movie, GRUDGE MATCH, the dramatic comedy reuniting two boxing legends for one last competitive bout....
Less than 24 hours after returning from San Diego where the Oakland Raiders faced the Chargers in a hard-fought American Football Conference Western Division contest, members...
Ujamaa (pronounced oo-Jah-mah) means cooperative economics. It is an African Kwanzaa principle that focuses on building Black businesses to create Black economy to further the development...
University of California President Janet Napolitano announced this week that UC San Francisco Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann is resigning from her position to become CEO of the...
“Academically talented and politically conscious” is how the 26th California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O’Connell, described Zephanii (“Ze”) N’shea Smith when selecting her in...
Ringing in the Christmas season, First Baptist Church of Stockton will be hosting “The Colors of Christmas,” inviting the community to celebrate in three services held...
Celebrity artists are coming together to help the E.C. Reems Academy of Technology and Art and the Center of Hope church to restore peaceful alternatives against...
Encinal High School in Alameda is known for its academic rigor, athletic achievements, school pride and diversity. But the recent failure of the school administration to...