Justice Department Opens Investigation into Toxic Tap Water in Flint

By Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post   Days after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) apologized for toxic tap water in the city of Flint and accepted the...

Oakland Launches New Department of Race & Equity 

The City of Oakland’s Department of Race and Equity is launching this month under the watchful eyes of many Oakland residents who came out to meeting...

Partnership Helps Offset Housing Costs for New San Francisco Teachers

A cohort of new San Francisco teachers is eligible for as many as three years of assistance to overcome one of the most significant hurdles to...

City Attorney Appeals Court’s Ruling in Police Racist, Homophobic Texting Case

City Attorney Dennis Herrera this week filed notice with the California Court of Appeal that he will challenge a San Francisco Superior Court decision allowing police...

Congresswoman Lee Celebrates One Year of Renewed Relations with Cuba

Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a member of the bipartisan Congressional Cuba Working Group’s Steering Committee, released a statement marking the first anniversary of President Obama’s historic announcement...

SF State Vets Dispel Myths About Military Stereotypes

By Mary Kenny , SFSU News   As Americans observed Veterans Day this year, San Francisco State University celebrated the five-year anniversary of its Veterans Services...

Thanksgiving Food Distribution for Middle School Families

United for Success Academy, a public middle school in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, hosted a Thanksgiving food distribution Wednesday, Nov. 18, put on by Safe...

Wanda’s Picks: Interview with Nick Cannon, Star of Spike Lee’s New Film Chi-Raq

By Wanda Sabir   Power couple, Demetrius “Chi-Raq” Dupree (Nick Cannon) and Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) have all any young couple could want, fame and power, the...

Interfaith Leaders Demand O’Malley Drop the Charges Against Black Friday 14

Interfaith leaders and community residents held rituals, services and a rally this week to demand Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley drop the charges against the...

Two Universities Make Indigenous Courses a Graduation Requirement for Graduation

Nancy Macdonald, Macleans   Some universities make students take a math course before they get an arts degree, just as some engineering students are now being...

Medicaid Denies Nearly Half Of Requests for Hepatitis C Drugs: Study

By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News   People with hepatitis C who sought prescriptions for highly effective but pricey new drugs were significantly more likely to...

University Student Studies Hard So He Can Build Roads in South Sudan

By Yasmin Anwar , UC Berkeley News   At 6-foot-4 and with quite a wingspan, UC Berkeley engineering student Akol Kuan towered over sixth-graders at Oakland’s...

Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Fight Dementia

By Laura Kurtzman, UCSF News   The Atlantic Philanthropies is awarding UC San Francisco and Trinity College Dublin and the University of Dublin, $177 million to...

Mwalimu Johnson, Prison Reform Advocate and Counselor of Fellow Inmates, Dies at 78

By Katy Reckdahl, the Advocate   Mwalimu Johnson, a prison-reform advocate and a sought-after counselor to thousands of fellow inmates, died last Tuesday of kidney failure...

Trailblazer and Champion of the People, Mary King, 69

Mary V. King, an Oakland native who was the first African American on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and served as AC Transit general manager,...

Minneapolis Mayor Calls for Federal Investigation into Police Shooting as Protests Continue

By Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root   The mayor of Minneapolis has called for a federal investigation into the fatal police shooting Sunday of 24-year-old...

SF State Creates New Degree in Environmental Science

By Jonathan Morales , SFSU News   Students hoping to work as environmental scientists at government agencies or other organizations have a new option at SF...

300 Military Veterans Now on Death Row

More than one million veterans have returned from wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Middle East with symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).   Most veterans...

Afro-Mexicans Push for Legal Recognition in Mexico’s Constitution

Written by Walter Thompson-Hernández, http://remezcla.com   The myth of the Latin American racial democracy, scholars believe, began in Brazil following the abolishment of slavery in 1888,...

National Director of Mothers in Charge Speaks at St. Columba

  Dorothy Johnson-Speight (right), the National Director of Mothers in Charge, spoke to the congregation of St. Columba Church in Berkeley at the church’s Saints Day...

Bay Area Labor, Black Lives Matter Unite to Fight for $15/hr. and Racial Justice

Fast-food workers, care givers, and store employees in hundreds of cities across the country walked off the job Tuesday demanding a $15-an-hour minimum wage and union...

Hundreds of Students at Stanford University Stand In Solidarity with Mizzou

Racism at Berkeley Unified “Has Been Tolerated for Too Long,” Say Community Leaders

Tensions remain high at Berkeley High School in the wake of a student walkout sparked by the discovery of a written message in the school library...

People of Color, Women Absent from Management at Federal Banking Agencies

A report released by Rep. Maxine Waters, ranking member of the House Committee on Financial Services, and members of the Congressional Black, Hispanic and Asian Pacific...

PUEBLO Holds 26th Anniversary Celebration

PUEBLO, People United for a Better Life in Oakland, is holding its 26th anniversary celebration on Thursday, Nov. 12 at La Estrellita restaurant at 6 p.m....