Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) invites highly motivated young women who are passionate about making a difference in their communities to apply for its...
By Polly Seaberry Rev. Henry C. Williams is pointing the way to reparations as a partial economic solution for African Americans. He wants to reach...
Pretty much everyone in Oakland recognizes that commercial and residential rents are running out of control, and longtime residents are being forced out of the city...
Walmart announced Friday that is closing 269 stores worldwide – including the stores on Edgemont Drive in Oakland – as it sharpens its focus on its...
By Manny Otiko/California Black Media Dr. Shirley Thornton, a retired educator and colonel in the United States Army Reserves, remembers reaching a “glass ceiling” when...
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), and Children Now have announced legislation aimed at improving the mental health of children who have experienced...
By Hina Shamsi, Director, ACLU National Security Project A settlement in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenge to NYPD surveillance of New York Muslims...
More than 206,000 students applied to attend the University of California as undergraduates in fall 2016, an overall jump of 6.4 percent over fall 2015 and...
By Alyza Katrina C. Torres, Latin Post. Protesters from a pro-immigrant rights coalition group last Friday held a rally in New York City airing their...
By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley News In a first, a graphic novelist has been picked as the new national ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
