Housing justice organizers are asking residents to attend the Tuesday, April 5 City Council meeting to push council members to pass a housing state of emergency...
Más de 20 camiones de alimentos de propiedad de latinos llevaron una marcha móvil por el Boulevard Internacional en Oakland el Lunes – desde...
In the early 1900s in the Bay Area, African-American lawyers were unwelcome and faced hostile opposition in the legal community. It was not until...
By Jeff Horwitz, Assoicated Press Washington (AP) — Donald Trump said Friday he will weaken First Amendment protections for reporters as president, making it easier...
The 7th annual Powerful Women of the Bay was held Friday, March 11 at the Wedgewood in Metropolitan Golf Links in Oakland, recognizing women achievers and...
By Pamela Drake It is one of the features of life today in Oakland that bus stops the community needs disappear without explanation, and residents...
Eastbay Assemblymember Rob Bonta, joined by immigrant, civil rights, and labor group, is backing legislation to address controversial deportation tactics by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
Courtesy of RT Seven families from Flint, Michigan filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against Governor Rick Snyder, as well as other city and state officials,...
Oakland teachers, parents and students who are dedicated to maintaining and improving their schools are increasingly finding themselves in conflict with a school district leadership that...
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa were keynote speakers this week at a $250-a-person election fundraiser for Great Oakland (GO) Public...
By: Angela Bronner Helm Tech giant Google announced last Friday that its philanthropic arm would be donating $1 million to Bryan Stevenson’s Alabama-based non-profit, Equal...
By Paul Rockwell Paul Robeson is a legendary figure in American history. He was not only a famous scholar, athlete, linguist, singer and actor, but...
Courtesy of The Richmond Standard A coalition of local organizations and community leaders is proposing a November ballot initiative that would mandate that a certain...
By Sheryl Huggins Salomon, Ebony.com Fifty years after the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the agenda and style of the legendary...
After a tearful press conference, an anti-displacement ballot initiative was filed March 3 at Oakland City Hall by a coalition of Oakland renters, clergy, teachers, homeowners,...
Services for Californians totaling $15 billion were cut from the state budget between 2008 and 2013. By 2010, the Alameda Court system began feeling the...
The Oakland Private Industry Council (PIC) recently hosted a recruitment event for the transportation company Uber, Tuesday, March 1 at the West Oakland Career Center. Uber...
The fight to build affordable housing on a parcel of public land by Lake Merritt has once again turned into a tug-of-war between the East 12th...
Westlake Middle School students, parents and teachers are angry and confused after learning in the past week that the district has decided to “co-locate” a charter...
Residents from a number of community groups attended the City Council’s Rules and Legislation Committee, calling on the committee to support a temporary “moratorium on evictions...
BySue Sturgis, Common Dreams As the federal trial over North Carolina’s restrictive voter ID law wrapped up last week in Winston-Salem, the North Carolina. NAACP...
Courtesy of The Richmond Standard Hercules High senior Garvey Buchongo may not have had a father growing up, but since age five she has had...
By David Gorn, California Healthline A plan to offer full state-sponsored health benefits for adult immigrants without papers is likely to spark one of the...
Carol Lee Tolbert, an Oakland native, is the first and only African-American woman elected to public office in North Oakland. From 1993 to 1997, Tolbert...
Oakland’s Legislation Committee unanimously passed Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan’s proposal for a resolution that would urge President Obama to require all federal employees, agents and law enforcement...
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