Miami – Three late touchdowns in the fourth quarter by the Kansas City Chiefs stunned the Forty-Niners in what was the best comeback victory in Super...
Reacting to reports that the City Administration secretly spent $50,000 to hire an outside contractor to investigate a member of the Oakland Police Commission, City President...
A small group of advocates for unhoused residents gathered outside of The Evictors and The Law Offices of Alan J Horwitz on Monday Jan. 27 to...
The Multicultural Children’s Bookstore celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. day along with thousands of others around the country. The occasion kicked off the bookstore’s own January...
On Saturday, Jan. 18, The North & Greater Richmond Blues Foundation, Inc. held its first networking event “A Gathering of Like-Minds” (Part 1) at their offices...
Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley this week introduced Senate Bill 889, which would raise the age at which young people in California are automatically tried as adults...
Before 1968, California colleges were pretty much all white. A courageous group of young Black people decided that this was unacceptable, and they were going...
It is only when we experience mental illness in the family that we learn how little we understand about it and how little we know about...
Last year was a difficult one for this country. From mass shootings, fires, homelessness, and being publicly attacked by POTUS himself, this was a rough year....
With the United States about to begin its monumental task of counting everybody in the country once every 10 years, the House Oversight Committee held a...
On Jan. 18, 2020, the Sloan-Smith family joyfully celebrated the 100th birthday of Rever Sloan. Members of the immediate and extended family, with many, many friends...
The Contra Costa Association of Realtors held its annual inaugural celebration at the Blackhawk Auto Museum in Danville on Jan. 11, 2020. Tangie Leverett was sworn...
On Nov. 2, 1983 former President Ronald Regan signed a bill making Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday effective 1986. Twenty-five years later from that...
The Port of Oakland is seeking ambitious, creative and highly-motivated, full-time college students for its 2020 Summer College Internship Program. Through a competitive process, prospective applicants...
Homeless moms who were forcibly evicted from a vacant Oakland house where they lived for two months without permission from the home’s corporate owner, announced on...
Thousands of people gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza on Jan. 20 to participate in Oakland’s 6th annual March and Rally to Reclaim Martin Luther King...
The Miraculous Foundation Christian Church at 1642 Fruitvale Ave. in Oakland enters into a special period continuing to build and honor the legacy of their founders...
The discriminatory laws and practices of the Jim Crow era made traveling by car a dangerous experience for Black families. Travelers were denied access to basic...
The Oakland Symphony will present a Celebration of the Life of Bernard J. Tyson & His Playlist on Friday, Jan. 24, at the Paramount Theater in...
Supervisor Wilma Chan announced the adoption of an ordinance that bans certain tobacco products that encourage youth consumption in the County’s unincorporated areas and requires all...
Black Elected Officials (BEO) of the East Bay announced the election of Lynette Gibson McElhaney as the new President of the Board of Directors. The Oakland...
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) introduced a bill last week that would allow communities of faith to help alleviate the housing crisis. The bill, AB 1851, would...
Oakland residents built homes for unhoused people on a small tract of publicly owned land between 14th and 16th avenues and East 12th street during the...
“Dr. Cummings, don’t think you’ll ever be alone,” said ‘Ladies in Red’ founder Brenda Knight. “We are here, we got you. You don’t have to worry. ...
The City Council passed a resolution this week to work collaboratively with the Port of Oakland to authorize a new A’s stadium at Howard Terminal on...