This week the AASEG (African American Sports and Entertainment Group) has moved forward to secure the exclusive rights to bring a WNBA team to the Oakland...
Under the state's previous rental assistance program, rent payments were capped at up to 80% of back rent owed. The new program will cover up to...
The bill also creates new, robustly funded grants and partnerships to help states with clean-up and remediation efforts. To prevent future contamination, the bill introduces stricter...
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The councilmembers of District 7 and District 6 joined with more than 2,500 neighborhood petitioners to condemn the less than one month notice.
Hours of engaging discourse, bolstered by a throng of community supporters who packed the virtual council meeting with back-to-back appeals, got their wish in a 6-0-2...
This wave of violence is very brutal but not new. And unless there is a miracle from our most high God, this violence won’t be eliminated.
SFPD continues showcasing community policing reforms in deployment of 26 additional officers on bicycle and foot patrols to City’s high-traffic, iconic travel destinations
Alameda County is experiencing an increase in COVID-19 cases and increased circulation of the highly transmissible Delta variant.
Elder formally launched his campaign to recall Newsom outside the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk office.
The Oakland Police Department reported some arrests and incidents in a news release on July 19, along with a plea to the community from the chief...
Felecia Gaston, the director of Performing Stars, has replaced Lenice Smith of Novato as a member of the public on the Independent-Journal editorial board.
Here’s why dozens of Texas lawmakers are in Washington, D.C. this week.
The main office is located at 9925 International Blvd., Oakland, CA, 94603 and they can be reached by calling 510-777-1177.
Lons suffered an overdose and battled drug addiction for years. The official cause of death is pending from the Alameda County Medical Examiner.
Blackwell, who is African American, accuses Ma of inappropriate behavior, including revealing her bare posterior on more than one occasion. San Francisco’s attorney Waukeen McCoy filed...
According to the Texas State Historical Association, weekend rodeos featuring Black cowboys began in the late 1940s, thanks to the formation of the Negro Cowboys Rodeo...
Joined by members of the Congressional Black Caucus and cosponsors of H.R. 2116, the CROWN Act, the signers request FINA evaluate how barriers to participation, like...
In the July 8 contest held in Orlando, Fla., Zaila won on the word “murraya” a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees. At that moment...
Two California men have been charged with a hate crime in Oregon for allegedly assaulting a Black gas station attendant.
The free, virtual event will begin with an invocation by Berkeley Poet Laureate Rafael Jesús González and will feature 18 BIPOC writers and poets in lively...
Taiwan’s office of foreign affairs contacted me to ask if I would be interested in receiving the Covid vaccine.
He has worked as a police officer, a military officer, and a jazz pianist.
The growth of high paying jobs is booming at the Port of Oakland as the economy continues to recover in part from the global pandemic.
Kaiser Permanente is the first hospital in the East Bay to offer the program through a partnership with the Cleveland Cord Blood Center
