The City of Oakland announced Monday a partnership with Allen Temple Baptist Church and the emergency relief nonprofit organization Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE) to open...
Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan, who serves as Oakland’s Council Member At-Large, announced a bold, 13-point, “Agenda for Healthy Transition and a Just Recovery Plan.”...
While most of us are sheltering in place, a few bills of significance in California are going through the legislative process. SB 1410 is legislation that...
When Gov. Gavin Newsom presented his revised budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year, his new spending plan includes new priorities that reflect a projected $54.3 billion...
Last Tuesday, Oakland City Council unanimously approved an agenda item acknowledging the impact of the current health emergency on the African American community, yet declined to...
On Monday, May 18, the Alameda County Public Health Official issued an updated Shelter-in-Place Order that allows certain businesses to resume operations at this time, under specific conditions. The...
Thousands of people took to the Oakland streets May 29 for what was at first a peaceful protest against the death of George Floyd, who...
The City of Oakland was rebuffed for a second time in its attempt to prevent the shipment of coal through Insight Terminal Solutions (ITS) under a...
As a caravan of organizers departed a Dollar Tree parking lot in Oakland with various rent strike signs and flags attached to their vehicles Friday, May 22, a...
The Oakland City Council voted unanimously at its Tuesday meeting to place an Oakland Youth Vote measure on the November ballot, which would give 16 and...
Oakland Police Department (OPD) officers detained and handcuffed two volunteers last Saturday who were maintaining a freshwater supply for a large community of unhoused residents that...
Oakland has experienced high rates of displacement and gentrification of Black neighborhoods, and deep East Oakland is where the largest population of Black residents reside. According...
The Senate Public Safety Committee today, on a bipartisan, 6-to-1 vote, approved SB 1064, a bill by Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, that would eliminate the use...
Assemblymember Dr. Weber’s (D-San Diego) AB 3070 bill would prohibit a party from using a peremptory challenge to remove a prospective juror on the basis of...
On May 11, the California Assembly Judiciary Committee voted yes on a bill that would mandate the state to set up an 8-member commission to examine...
Nedir Ali Bey was born on April 14, 1961, in San Diego, Ca. Bey also lived in Compton with his family before moving to the Bay...
If you’re a registered voter in California, expect to receive a ballot from your county elections officials in the mail for the Nov. 3, 2020, elections....
Recycling Company Provides Critical Protein Items to SeniorsIn response to the growing need as a result of COVID-10, California Waste Solutions will provide the East Oakland...
Two weeks ago, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp drew sharp criticisms from African Americans across the country. Black politicians, social media commenters, and others blasted the governor,...
Starting in 1827, the Black Press has given voice to the issues impacting African Americans. Now, 193 years later, approximately 200 Black newspapers, COVID-19 has been...
It could be the high-profile deaths of African American cultural icons like Little Richard, Andre Harrell or Betty Wright, who all left us recently, or the...
Several Black-owned newspapers in California have received grants to help them weather the economic downturn the COVID-19 pandemic has caused. Facebook announced May 7 that it...
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...
NNPA NEWSWIIRE — Twenty-five-year-old Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed while jogging after a former police officer and his son chased him down because...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The grants include $10.3 million awarded to 144 U.S local newsrooms as part of the COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program. The...
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