Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced modifications July 6 to temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online classes due to the pandemic for the fall 2020...
On July 7, 2020, Supervisor Shamman Walton introduced an ordinance to amend the San Francisco Police Code known as the Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies (CAREN)...
Draymond Green, 30, has won three National Basketball Association (NBA) Championships with the San Francisco-based Golden State Warriors and is known to be an agitator on...
What began as a violin lesson from a private teacher and later with endless hours of listening to Red Seal recordings led to William Grant Still...
For several months, the most vulnerable have been suffering. COVID-19, in the form of shelter-in-place, has created another level of isolation, not only for adult victims...
Breonna Taylor’s shooting death in Kentucky was the consequence of a Louisville Police Dept. operation intended to clear out a block in western Louisville key to...
Richard Johnson is an inmate at San Quentin State Prison. K-53293, 3.W.2 For those of us who still believe in the word of God and...
Kaiser Permanente has announced $100 million in grants and investments to support Black-owned businesses and Black-led community organizations combating systemic racism. The funding will...
A Caravan of 100 app workers organized with “We Drive Progress” and “Gig Workers Rising” protested outside of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s $16.5 million mansion in...
During Gov. Gavin Newsom’s daily COVID-19 update to Californians on June 26, he announced that the state will begin “smart,” or “targeted” testing, for the disease....
June was Men’s Health Month, and as the month comes to a close, Kaiser Permanente is encouraging men to take care of their health by sharing...
Assembly member Kevin McCarty’s Assembly constitutional Amendment 6 passed out of the California State Senate on June 24, 2020. The bill, known as the Free the...
This past weekend, the Mississippi Legislature approved the removal of the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. It’s a sign of the times, historians say, that speaks to the turning spirit of the nation – even happening in a state that has remained a proud stronghold, clinging to enduring customs that nod...
“Juneteenth is Freedom Day and a cause for celebration,” said Assemblymember Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D., chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus. “What is encouraging is...
On June 18, the United States Supreme Court ruled against the Trump Administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The renewable...
June 19 marks Juneteenth – the day that enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas finally received word in 1865 that slavery had been formally ended two...
COVID-19 has added more strain to the recycling industry, which has been overwhelmed by recycling product bans and stricter quality guidelines due to the enactment of...
“I can’t breathe,” pled George Floyd in Minneapolis and Erik Garner in New York City and Javier Ambler in Austin, Texas, before police killed them. Amid...
Food producers using images of Black people in their branding decided to change those images on Wednesday. Hours after PepsiCo announced that it would retire the...
Mayor London Breed hosted a panel on “Racial Justice and Police Reform in San Francisco” with Malia Cohen, chair of the California Board of Equalization, San...
As calls to defund the police intensified nationwide, protestors demanded justice this week for Erik Salgado, 23, a Hispanic man shot and killed in East Oakland...
Representatives of social justice organizations and individuals announced a civil rights class-action lawsuit Thursday against the City of Oakland in the wake of police violence during...
[George] Floyd’s murder sparked peaceful demonstrations in cities across the country, demonstrations that, in Minneapolis and a few other places, turned toward riots. Chauvin and his...
AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS & ISSUES — Black people, as the primary target and victim of inhumanity have always met the challenge. This has not been a...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Kenneth brought the newspaper into the age of digital technology and ushered in an era of a new relevance to the publication with...