From March 17 to April 7, residents in seven counties and one city in the Bay Area have been ordered to “shelter in place” in order...
Editor’s Note: This story was updated on Mar. 16 to reflect the President’s Coronavirus Guidelines for America and orders by Bay Area counties to shelter in...
Interim City Administrator Steven Falk today announced temporary changes to city government functions this week in accordance with the Alameda County Health Officer’s order for all...
The Communities for a New California Education Fund (CNC), a non-profit 501(C) (3) human rights organization, is the administrator and community-based organization in region 4 for...
In 1964, “Freedom Summer” or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a voter registration drive aimed to increase the number of Black voters in Mississippi. On Feb....
To comply with health officials’ recommendations regarding COVID-19, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is allowing customers a 60-day extension for license or registration renewals....
Following the example of the Italian government, California lawmakers are pushing for legislation that would provide rental relief and order a temporary suspension of mortgage payments...
It’s a fast-moving Democratic presidential primary. As of the writing of this piece, it’s a two-man race, Biden and Sanders. Congressman Jim Clyburn is a revered...
Many faith-based organizations are encouraging their members to follow public health guidelines to help slow the spread of COVID-19. As COVID-19, also known as Coronavirus disease,...
In January when Governor Newsom briefed Californians on his 2020-21 Budget, he said the state’s investment in K-12 education was making progress, but described the progress...
Of the atrocities in Germany during and after World War II, one caused by the U.S. occupation went largely underreported: thousands of children were born to...
According to the Federal Reserve, large, white-controlled banks like Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo with $6 trillion in total assets, are the...
Responding to community concerns, the Oakland City Council took a series of emergency actions, including the purchase of handwashing stations and proposing a moratorium on renters’...
The United States military made history today when the Trump administration nominated Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. to become the chief of staff for the United...
This past weekend, seven young women from Oakland’s Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center, ages 14 to 18, joined nearly 50 bi-partisan and bi-cameral members of...
As the City of Oakland continued evicting unhoused people living in the Community of Grace by East Oakland’s Home Depot, two unhoused residents filed a complaint...
Measure R, which allows the City of Oakland to publish a public announcement of city business in local weekly newspapers, was one of the significant “down-ballot”...
Sometime in mid-March, households will start receiving information on how to respond to the 2020 Census either online, by phone, or by mail. Why is this...
“People with serious mental illness who have family support usually do much better than people without it.” Over 10 years ago a top manager at Alameda...
As conservatives in some states continue to assault the fundamental right of citizens to vote by purging voter rolls, requiring certain ID’s and adding onerous burdens...
Oakland’s Poor People’s Campaign teamed up with student and community volunteers to host a teach-in discussing voting, housing community, and education — all hot button issues...
“I wanted to be a world-renowned designer, which was unheard of for a Black man, but it didn’t hurt to dream.” – Henry Delton Williams Oakland...
So far, 37 people in California have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and about 8,700 people across the state, who may have been exposed to...
That is the one lesson that we all should have learned about President Donald Trump. He’s a salesman, not a statesman. He offers up fantasies, not...
A collection of revered Vodou, Ifa and Kemetic Science practitioners will come together for a weeklong series of events in honor of the visit of Her...
