As we prepare to celebrate the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the beginnings of Black History month in February, it is...
Rep. Barbara Lee married Rev. Dr. Clyde Oden Jr., a pastor on New Year’s Eve in Santa Monica, Calif. with many Bay Area constituents and leaders...
Angela Wheeler, a member of Oakland Technical High’s Apollo 9th grade class which championed the movement to establish Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s birthday as a...
For the past several weeks, a group of homeless mothers and their children have been residing in a formerly-vacant home in West Oakland. A large investment corporation,...
In mid-December, Game Changer LLC, delivered eviction notices to and erected a fence around nine unhoused residents who live on a tract of land west of...
On Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, Rep. Barbara Lee will present the Oakland Citizen Humanitarian Award to Clarissa Doutherd, executive director of Parent Voices Oakland, for her...
John Siegel’s Opinion in the Nov. 21, 2019 Oakland Post accuses the opponents of a coal terminal with inaccuracies in their arguments while itself...
Say his name—Oscar Grant! Eleven years after Grant was fatally shot by a BART Police Officer, City of Oakland District 2 councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas attended...
Oakland Not for Sale — a coalition of community members and educators against public school closures — is moving ahead with a campaign to recall Jody...
Danielle Outlaw, an Oakland native and 19-year veteran of the Oakland Police Department, has been hired to serve as the first Black woman to lead Philadelphia’s...
On Nov. 18, two unhoused mothers and their children began occupying a vacant property at 2928 Magnolia St. in West Oakland. Although the owner, Wedgewood LLC,...
The term holistic health has been bandied about for many years with many people preferring to call it Alternative Health, which suggests something other than what...
Wednesday, Jan. 1, begins the new year. It also marks the anniversary of a new America. On Jan. 1, 1863, as the Civil War, the bloodiest...
The hearts of many were beating a little heavier Dec. 29 as civil rights icon and U.S. Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia announced that he...
Unhoused residents living on a tract of land just west of Wood Street in West Oakland and their advocates participated in a holiday protest outside of...
The Oakland Unified School District has extended the contract of school finance consultant Luz Cazares, who will serve as the districts ’s interim Chief Financial Officer...
Even though we are amid the season of giving, the Oakland A’s have perennially given back to the Bay Area as a year-round corporate policy and...
The Williams-Day-Evans families say, “Thank you!” for honoring Ismael Williams Sr. who was truly beloved by many. We express our heartfelt appreciation for the outpouring of...
It was chilly and rainy in San Francisco on December 10, but guests basked in the warmth of the Christmas spirit at Davies Hall’s third annual...
On Tuesday Dec. 4, workers for Security Contract Services installed a fence surrounding a community of unhoused residents who live in tents at Mosswood Park in...
Michael Davenport, one of Richmond’s favorite sons, has been waging a courageous battle against serious illness for the last two years and his friends, business partners...
Oscar Mendoza, an amateur boxer who trains at the Marin City Boxing Club in Marin City, will fight his first professional boxing match in Los Angeles...
The Oakland Unified School District (OIUSD) has announced it may cut $15.5 million from its budget for the next school year, signifying there is no end...
As I walked to Geoffrey’s Inner Circle last Saturday night, downtown Oakland looked a little different. Oakland’s own literary genius, Marvin X, was hosting one of...
Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration has plans on paper to help the homeless get off the streets. But in reality, the administration’s approach has been and remains...