Yolanda’s Construction Administration & Traffic Control (YCAT-C) recently received a small business loan from the Neighbor Fund, a community-based and community-vetted revolving loan fund for small...
The Oakland Unified School District has hired Lance Jackson as the interim head of the Division of Facilities and Management Department at the cost of $30,000...
While many people are looking at the proposed Coliseum City development as the best and last chance to keep the Raiders and A’s in town in...
By Jonathan Morales, SFSU News For the first 21 years of her life, Sabrina Sakdikul didn’t know how to pronounce her last name. At school, she...
By Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley News Taking inspiration from nature, UC Berkeley engineers have created an ultra-thin film that can shift colors as easily as a...
College students from all over the country are using their Spring Breaks to help rebuild the community and promote civic engagement in Ferguson. Students are coming...
Senator Loni Hancock, Chair of the Senate Committee on Public Safety, has filed a legal brief supporting the elimination of California’s death penalty. Senator Hancock was...
A subcommittee of the Oakland Workforce Investment Board (WIB) Youth Council, called the West Oakland Working Group, met on Feb. 4, and the meeting was ruled...
Alameda County and other California counties have begun receiving millions of dollars a year to partially offset the state decision to save money by shifting many...
By Post staff About 100 De Anza High School students held a day-long protest and peacefully demonstrated in front of the high school on Mar. 9....
At least three local organizations and coalitions are pushing to make sure that the Coliseum City project – if it comes to pass – will provide...
A memorial fund has been set up to help pay funeral costs and support the children of 30-year old Chyemil Pierce, a mother who was killed...
The Oakland Unified District seems to be acting on a presumption that its headquarters – the Paul Robeson Administration Building at 1025 Second Ave. – that...
By Post Staff Schools Supt. Antwan Wilson has apologized to a student and his family on behalf of the school district after a video was released...
Leading thousands of marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, President Barack Obama paid tribute to the men and women that stood their ground...
Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter and the San Leandro City Council have adopted a five-year extension of the contract with City Manager Chris Zapata, who has been...
The city of Vallejo is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse cities in the United States, according to a new study. The study, conducted...
Voter-enacted ballot Measure FF, which raises the minimum wage in Oakland from $9 to $12.25/hour, became effective March 2. The measure, which passed with an...
By Hatem Bazian In 2011, the Center for American Progress published a groundbreaking report, “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America,” which managed...
By Paul Day, UCSF News UC San Francisco’s Office of Diversity and Outreach has hired Denise Caramagno as the University’s care advocate. She will provide crisis...
By Beth Tagawa, SF State News The U.S. national debt is currently estimated at $18 trillion — and constantly rising. While that is a staggering figure,...
In wake of protests and national actions resisting the discriminating treatment of people of color by law enforcement, the city is expected to vote on a...
Isaac Kos-Read, newly hired Chief of Communications and Public Affairs for the Oakland school district, has responded on Facebook to an Oakland Post article that raises...
Administrator Tim White’s departure under pressure from the Oakland Unified School District has left the department he led – Facilities Planning and Management – in disarray,...
After months of rallying the community in the Jobs Not Jails campaign, organizers with the Ella Baker Center in Oakland and nearly 100 community members peacefully...