The federal government is escalating its action against bad actors in the pharmaceutical industry involved in the opioid crisis. The federal government on Tuesday charged a major...
Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (right) and his District Director Shanelle Scales-Preston met with Post News Group Publisher Paul Cobb on his legislative initiatives to bring attention to...
A message from The Reverend Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Sr., Pastor Emeritus, Allen Temple Baptist Church, Oakland At last, Baptists in the Bay Area have broken the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We are assembled together from across the nation as the media of America at a time when the Trump administration continues to have...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Some media favorable to the president have also attacked Omar and despite death threats made against her, Trump has continued his assault by...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Race has a tremendous impact in criminal trials, at least one African American juror can help even the playing field when it comes...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “With the racial divide stoked by President Donald Trump’s racial bias, the need for some healing among the races is a progressive and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Cosby and his team of attorneys said Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill “Continues to show his disgust and prejudice” toward Cosby by...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Systemic racism drives both poverty and the mass incarceration of low-income people, especially people of color. This cycle of poverty and criminal justice...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The fact that communities of color, low income communities, and indigenous communities across the country disproportionately face environmental hazards and harmful pollutants on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Phyllis G. Williams, the co-host of the podcast “Living the Principles,” said one reason hate crimes are increasing is that criminals of those...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In a scathing essay published in Variety, former CBS Executive Whitney Davis said it’s a “white problem across the board.” She said there’s...
Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association (OEA), received the Paul Robeson Educator Activist Award and gave an inspiring presentation in dialogue with Dr. Kimberly...
The Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees of Peralta Community has appointed Dr. Albert J. Harrison II as interim vice chancellor of finance and administration....
The Board of Trustees of Peralta Community College District (PCCD) recently named Dr. Frances (Fran) L. White as acting chancellor of the District. Her start date...
California Waste Solutions (CWS), a major recycling company that serves Oakland residents, has been working with the city to relocate its operations to the Oakland Army...
By Ken Epstein The Oakland Unified School District is dismantling its Department of State & Federal Programs—eliminating all eight staff positions—leading some of the department’s staff...
Michael Peters, head coach of the three-time defending California Champion McClymonds High School Warriors football team has won the 2018-19 California Football Coach of the Year,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It is time to call out the men and women who lead us and to draw a line in the sand about how...
The Oakland City Administrator’s Office has prevented the Oakland Police Commission from fulfilling certain elements of the Police Commission enabling ordinance, the law that grants the...
Picture a vain king who wants a statue of himself, and he demands that it be created by the greatest sculptor in the land. How does...
Teachers and community public school advocates are asking Envision Education, a charter school management organization, not to take over public school classrooms at West Oakland Middle...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Recent research by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition on housing affordability found that more than 8 million Americans spend half or more of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Challenging these disparities and presenting new opportunities for journalists of color, the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, is embarking on a...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — It’s been about a year since Avengers: Infinity War premiered, and Marvel comic fanatics have been waiting for this reckoning ever since. Their...