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...
The SF African American Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Juneteenth Business and Awards Luncheon at the West Bay Conference on 1290 Fillmore Street in...
The 8th Annual East Bay AIDS Walk is scheduled for Saturday, June 21 at the Lake Merritt Gazebo in Oakland. This is a 5k walk/run to...
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) Poets Choir and Arkestra honored the life and legacy of Amiri Baraka with poetry, music, song and dance on Saturday, May...
By Cathy Cockrell, UC News In 1942 a young African American Ph.D., David Blackwell, interviewed for a teaching job in UC Berkeley’s math department. He got...
The Marin City Fatherhood Council is presenting a Father’s Day Breakfast, “Leaving A Legacy,” Saturday, June 14 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. The breakfast will take...
An initiative established in 2008 between former Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums’ office and Oakland Unified School District to recruit, support and retain the most outstanding teachers...
Christian Vassell, 20, is autistic but has not allowed his disability to define him. Now a student at the National Institute for Artist and Disabilities (NIAD),...
The Port of Oakland Employees’ Scholarship Program awarded $35,000 in scholarships to 13 Oakland public high school students who are headed off to attend a four-year...
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