California Senator Kamala D. Harris will give the 2018 commencement address to UC Berkeley’s graduates on May 12, 2018. Harris, the second African-American woman elected to the...
Oakland Firefighters Union Local 55 has endorsed Desley Brooks in her re-election to the Oakland City Council District 6 seat. The fire department’s Field Operations Bureau...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (left)and Anita Hill. Photo by Sarah Carpenter. About 2,000 people filled the Oakland Marriott Ballroom last Saturday to hear Anita Hill speak about...
Mayor Libby Schaaf declined to recommend reappointment of Rebecca Kaplan to the position Oakland residents lost the only representative they have had in over two decades on...
Political opposition to charter schools has been growing, both locally and nationally. A recent report produced by a pro-charter school policy organization says that the continued...
City Attorney Barbara Parker has announced that she filed suit against Santos Engineering in West Oakland for illegal recycling activity in response to concerns cited by...
Rendering of the central kitchen, urban farm and education center. An Oakland Unified School District state-of-the art industrial kitchen project capable of producing 35,000 school lunches...
The world is ripe to revisit Anita Hill’s story—and to catch up on where her story has gone. Young women today were too young to have...
Highest paid officer earned $157,000 in overtime, bringing salary to $463,000 Despite promises to reduce costs, Oakland Police Department overtime is projected to cost the city...
With heads wrapped in African print cloth, young dancers boogie down Broadway. Photo by Yvette Maria Aldama. What if you hold a parade and nobody comes? That...
Activists have blocked the intersections surrounding the ICE building in San Francisco this week. Facebook photos by Megan Zapanta and April Martin. Oakland officials and community...
Adopt a policy that benefits everyone, not just side agreement with Building Trades, say speakers The Post Salon Community Assembly last Sunday addressed the critical need...
Bethel AME will celebrate 166 years of service to the San Francisco community on March 4 at 10am. Themed “Homecoming”, this will be ther first anniversary...
Carla Denly, UCLA School of Public Health Survivors of the first known Ebola outbreak, which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, may...
Attorney and academic Anita Hill, a leading proponent for women’s rights, and workforce equity, will speak Saturday, March 10, 7 p.m., at the Oakland Marriott City...
When a fire destroyed the popular Mosswood Park Recreation Center in North Oakland in November 2016, city officials announced with fanfare they would work with the...
Members of Sahleem Tindle’s family shout “No Justice no peace!” at the BART board meeting on Feb. 22, 2018 in Oakland. Photo by Rhonesha Victor. The...
Candice Elder, founder of East Oakland Collective, along with members Julius Ceasar Johnson, and Marquita Price speak in East Oakland at the Black Solidarity rally. By...
By Will Kane UC Berkeley’s newest residence hall will be named after David Blackwell, the first Black professor to ever receive tenure at UC Berkeley and...
Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond), introduced a bill that implements a tax on private prisons that operate in California. The tax revenue generated by the bill will...
The City Council’s Life Enrichment Committee this week discussed a proposed resolution—sponsored by Councilmembers Lynette Gibson McElhaney and Larry Reid—to kick start the city’s new Department...
Family, friends and community members gathered Tuesday morning at the West Oakland BART station to protest the killing of 28-year-old Sahleem Tindle, who was allegedly unarmed and had...
Council responds to mayor’s attempt to redirect funds for public health to close the city’s budget. The City Council’s Life Enrichment Committee on Tuesday approved a...
Desley Brooks’ campaign for reelection to the District 6 seat on the Oakland City Council was endorsed this week by prominent activist Bobby Seale, co-founder of...
By Manny Otiko | California Black Media State Senate leader Kevin de Leon is being accused of being insensitive to the Black gay community. De Leon...
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