By Cat Brooks Last week, I was in Sacramento with a statewide coalition lobbying for SB1421 and AB931. AB931 would dramatically change the legal standard law...
Oakland City Administrator Sabrina Landreth has hired Maraskeshia Smith as her new Assistant City Administrator. Smith has more than 18 years of government experience with an...
As the Oakland’s mayoral races take off, City Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan will address the question, “What’s Next Oakland?” at a reception on Thursday, June 7, 5 p.m....
Members of East Oakland Congress of Neighborhoods demand the city keep its promises to cleanup trash and illegal dumping. Photos by Ken Epstein. As the City Council examines a...
Incumbent District Attorney Nancy O’Malley (right) answers a question from Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) along with her opponent, Pamela Price (left), at a townhall forum at...
As part of the budget adopted 11 months ago, the Oakland City Council directed $2.2 million in state funding to anti-displacement and homeless prevention services – particularly...
One of the many protests against the coal terminalheld at the offices of developer Phil Tagami. City leaders are pledging to continue to fight for “No...
The California Senate recently passed Senate Bill 1393, the Fair and Just Sentencing Reform Act, which reinstates judicial discretion to the application of the five-year sentence...
By Mario Juarez In March, 2018, a group of advocates leading the efforts to reform the Probate Court system met with District Attorney Nancy E. O’Malley. ...
A recent racist incident at Lake Merritt, where a white woman called police on African Americans who were barbecuing at Lake Merritt, sparked a protest to...
Oakland community groups are calling this week’s federal court ruling that the City of Oakland violated its contract with the developer a “temporary setback” as they...
Co-founder of activist group Eastlake United for Justice Mari Rose Taruc speaks at a press conference on the corner of E. 12th St. on May 9...
Ribbon-cutting for the new hydration station at Joaquin Miller Elementary School. Funding to come from Oakland Soda Tax and Alameda County Board of Supervisors. The Oakland City Council...
With 130 house parties, nearly 1400 signatures gathered and a team of over 500 volunteers, Buffy Wicks has set her sights on becoming the next 15th...
Discarded Oakland Public Library Books. Photos courtesy of John Jones III’s Facebook page. Concerns over the erasure and preservation of Black history and culture in Oakland’s...
Attending this week’s Rules and Legislation Committee to support a moratorium on the sale of public property were ( L to R): John Jones III, Kitty...
Activists say the proposed 625-student charter school would drain students from existing nearby schools, such as those at the César Chávez Education Center, located at 2825...
Chef Rashad Armstead discusses the origin of his business, Crave BBQ, at a press conference announcing a $3.2 million investment from the Quality Jobs Fund to...
By Natasha S. Alford – Black power. Everybody says we need it, but what does it take to get it? In the world of politics, “Black...
Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan received appreciation and an award on her lat last day on Bay Area Air Quality Management (BAAQMD) board. Kaplan is shown with BAAQMD...
Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project and now former host of “Upfront” on KPFA, speaks at the ILWU Local 10 May Day rally on May 1,...
Mimi Rohr and Greg McConnell of the Oakland Jobs Foundation present a check for job training to Bishop Bob Jackson and Pastor Jerald Simpkins for members...
The PushTech 2020 summit hosted “Mother’s of the NBA” on April 12 and featured Wanda Durant, mother of 7-time NBA All-star Kevin Durant. Dressed in a...
Supporters of the repeal of the state anti-rent control law, the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, rally Monday in front of Oakland City Hall. Oakland Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca...
Mayor Libby Schaaf (left) listens as Councilmember Desley Brooks criticizes her administration for closing neighborhood career centers, speaking at the April 26, 2016 CED committee meeting....
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