Oakland’s Public Works Department (PWD) placed a notice on a privately owned portable toilet near Raimondi Park on April 26, instructing homeless residents camped there to...
Schedule of Major Events 11 am Doors open, ongoing activities include old fashioned field games, balloons, bubbles, jumpers and fun for kids, community information booths, a...
An international coalition commemorating African ancestors of the Middle passage has joined in the 400 Year Commission to observe “LET’S TALK”: The International Day of Drumming...
I was 12 years old when I shared with my mother that I was sick of going to church all day and that I didn’t understand...
The Black Business Fair opens on Saturday May 4 at Laney College and features David Banner, known for his thought-provoking lecture series, “The God Box,” as...
On Sunday May 19, East Bay journalist Mary Ellen Butler will describe the love letters shared by her parents who became civic leaders in Oakland during...
Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association (OEA), received the Paul Robeson Educator Activist Award and gave an inspiring presentation in dialogue with Dr. Kimberly...
AC Transit’s East Bay Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is going to permanently and drastically change International Boulevard from a four-lane boulevard with ample parking to a...
The Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees of Peralta Community has appointed Dr. Albert J. Harrison II as interim vice chancellor of finance and administration....
The Board of Trustees of Peralta Community College District (PCCD) recently named Dr. Frances (Fran) L. White as acting chancellor of the District. Her start date...
California Waste Solutions (CWS), a major recycling company that serves Oakland residents, has been working with the city to relocate its operations to the Oakland Army...
By Ken Epstein The Oakland Unified School District is dismantling its Department of State & Federal Programs—eliminating all eight staff positions—leading some of the department’s staff...
Michael Peters, head coach of the three-time defending California Champion McClymonds High School Warriors football team has won the 2018-19 California Football Coach of the Year,...
The Oakland City Administrator’s Office has prevented the Oakland Police Commission from fulfilling certain elements of the Police Commission enabling ordinance, the law that grants the...
Picture a vain king who wants a statue of himself, and he demands that it be created by the greatest sculptor in the land. How does...
Teachers and community public school advocates are asking Envision Education, a charter school management organization, not to take over public school classrooms at West Oakland Middle...
A lot of people had kind of written Tiger Woods off. Over the past decade, instead of producing championships, he’d produced a steady stream of negative...
When family members face mental illness and or substance abuse in a loved one they are forced to learn things that are not taught in school....
Beaming with pride and overwhelming humility, Emeritus Rev. Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Sr., watched as more than 2,000 parishioners stood patiently to cast more than 90%...
Mary T. Williams, an Oakland Educator and social leader died peacefully among family and friends on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. She was 96 years young. Mary...
Oakland residents are fighting for more power to oversee the actions of the Oakland Police Department (OPD). On April 2, 2019, attorneys for the Coalition for...
The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) now appears to be under a modified form of direct state control, according to some observers. But the school district...
The Interfaith Council of Alameda County (ICAC) will discuss affordable housing and homelessness solutions at its elected council meeting Thursday, April 11, noon to 2:00 p.m....
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The Golden State Warriors and the Oakland A’s this week honored the Oakland High Wildcats and Oakland Tech Bulldogs girls’ basketball teams for winning the California...
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