Carroll Fife, community activist and co-founder of the Oakland Justice Coalition, has been named interim director of Oakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE). Fife...
FCMAT CEO Michael Fine was previously deputy superintendent for business services of the Riverside Unified School District. Photo courtesy of John Fensterwald/EdSource. In an attempt to...
From left to right: West Oakland Health Center Board member Gregory Nash, Board President Lloyd Ware, Board member Michelle Byrd, Board Treasurer Preston DuFauchard, Dr. Geraldine...
Mayor Michael Tubbs, the youngest and first African-American mayor of Stockton, has facilitated a relationship that will benefit local business owners and entrepreneurs. Partnering with Kiva,...
THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE PERALTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED BUDGET OF THE DISTRICT FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE...
It was a coincidence that Oakland’s first new public school in more than a decade, called Oakland SOL, opened its doors Monday – the same day...
East Bay racial justice organizers convened an emergency press conference at Berkeley City Hall Thursday to criticize Berkeley are authorities’ “flawed approach” to addressing the white nationalists...
Congresswoman Barbara and other East Bay political leaders held a press conference at Berkley City Hall Tuesday to condemn hatred, bigotry and violence as local communities...
Just days into Buffy Wicks’ campaign for State Assembly, U.S. Senator and former California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) has endorsed her to be the...
McClymonds student athletes wheel a hydration system to the football field. The water is retrieved from the mother of the coach across the street from the...
Affordable housing protest at Oakland City Hall. Rob Bonta and two other member of the State Assembly are sponsoring a bill, AB 1506, to repeal the...
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf on Tuesday announced her choices for the new independent Police Commission established by the passage of Measure LL. Voters approved the initiative...
Allen Temple Baptist Church Senior Pastor J. Alfred Smith Jr., surrounded by deacons and standing next to Assistant Pastor Jacqueline A. Thompson, announced his retirement on...
West Oakland’s McClymonds High does a good job of graduating Black students, she says In the first press conference of her new administration, Supt. Kyla Johnson-Trammell spoke...
A captain of the Pittsburg Police Department and Pinole Valley High graduate has been named San Pablo’s new police chief. Rathnesh (Ron) Raman, a 21-year veteran...
The California Black Chamber of Commerce is holding a luncheon “Fireside Chat” with University of California President Janet Napolitano, moderated by Alice Huffman, president and CEO...
The Oakland Private Industry Council (PIC) is hosting multiple hiring events this month for local companies seeking to hire drivers. First Student, the leading school bus...
Top Row, Left to Right: Bill Whitaker, Sweta Vohra, Emily Taguchi, Durrell Dawson, Marjorie McAfee, Center: Shilpi Gupta, Bottom Row, Left to Right: Daphne Matziaraki, David...
Donald Foster, a respected journalist and community activist who has worked in Oakland and the Bay Area for decades, is himself now facing eviction and fears...
The Oakland Public Ethics Commission decided to hire an independent hearing officer to determine whether Councilmember Lynette McElhaney used her elected position to “interfere” with the...
Prescott Circus Theater performs. Photo courtesy of Gary T. Thomsen. Seven young stars from the Prescott Circus Theatre, an afterschool and summer youth circus program born...
San Francisco´s Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) released its sixth annual report on the Mandatory Local Hiring Policy for Construction. The annual report, submitted...
Ten years ago on Aug. 2, 2007, Chauncey Bailey, our indefatigable and prolific editor, was shot down and killed in the early morning in front of a child...
About 90 students from across Oakland Unified School District are well prepared for the first day of classes after a special morning in Emeryville. The students,...
Students work on a past software projects at the David E. Glover Education and Technology Center. Photo courtesy of Stefanie Le/Oakland North. Youth innovators from the...
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