DeltaFusion ignites community creativity by bringing the stories of the San Joaquin Delta region – past, present, and future – to life with giant puppets and...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez It’s never been done before. It’s never been done, it’s never been tried. Maybe it’s never been thought of, either,...
OCCUR Holds “Board Report Card Clinic” for Faith-based Community OCCUR and The San Francisco Foundation will host their fifth “A Model Built on Faith” Workshop on...
Oakland, CA – They got their “mojo” back! The A’s once dominated the lead with long balls. But the last nine games they’ve been held to...
While many middle school students are looking forward to some time away from their studies this summer, two 8th graders from Bayside Martin Luther King, Jr....
Oakland, CA – To compound more problems for O.co would be useless at this point. However, the A’s certainly make a good case for a new...
Mental health is almost never brought up as a subject of conversation in Black America – certainly not in urban communities like Oakland where shootings and...
Oakland, CA – It just wasn’t their night. It took one inning to set the tone and from there the New York Yankees never looked back....
Kevin Burkes recently graduated from River City High School in West Sacramento with a 3.75 GPA. Born in Oakland and raised in Pittsburgh, Burkes has been...
The Foothill Seminary commercial corridor is going to get a facelift. In 2004, District 6 Councilmember Desley Brooks, in partnership with David Glover of OCCUR and...
A resolution that allows discussion and action on a proposed November ballot measure to create a Public Safety Oversight Commission was approved by the City Council’s...
Mildred Massey, Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s mother, celebrated her 90th birthday last Saturday with friends and family at the Grand Lake Gardens in Oakland where she lives.
The Sausalito Woman’s Club presented a record $61,000 in educational scholarships 40 high school graduates and college students from Sausalito and Marin City on Sunday, June...
The organizations spotlighted this year by Peacemakers Inc. were Rainin 3zz, a West Oakland-based AAU girls Basketball team coached By Darren Vance and represented by 13-year-old...
Steven Parker, a native of Richmond, has witnessed the city in its prime when the government was functioning effectively for its residents. But he says that...
By Alan Duke, CNN Ruby Dee, the award-winning actress whose seven-decade career included triumphs on stage and screen, has died. She was 91. Dee died peacefully...
San Francisco, CA – The Giants tried to even the series but failed when the Nationals scored three runs in the first frame. Matt Cain took...
For 29 years, Larry Moore has been struggling to clear his record after a bureaucratic mistake attached another person’s criminal record to his name. In that...
Each time Trevor Dunbar took to the basketball court for St. Ignatius High School of San Francisco something exciting was bound to happen. Dunbar, a 5-foot-10...
By Harry Brill On Tuesday, June 10, the Berkeley City Council voted unanimously to enact Berkeley’s first minimum wage law that covers the vast majority of...
By Jeffrey Norris, UC News Infants exposed to a diverse range of bacterial species in house dust during the first year of life appear to be...
Professional athletes understand that community involvement is a part of the job. But for some of them, it means a whole lot more. Just entering his...
By Courtney Thomas, student at Laney College Oakland has become a very dangerous place to live. There are shootings happening every day, and every time you...
Olympic Gold Medal Gymnast Gabriel “Gabby” Douglas visited Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum this week at Fisherman’s Wharf to get the first look of her wax statue....
San Francisco, CA – It was a night of rare events. The Giants suffered their largest defeat of the season when they fell 9-2 against the...
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