City workers are fighting for what we love: the people of Oakland. City services, including picking up illegal dumping, filling potholes, and implementing affordable housing programs...
Last week, the House passed the historic Dream and Promise Act to provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of Dreamers and other immigrants. These young...
Mandela Grocery Cooperative (MGC) in West Oakland celebrated its 10th year in business on June 7 with a street party. Farmers and suppliers who collaborate with ...
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Community says Schaaf’s budget hides $45 million ‘slush fund’ Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf could have responded to City Council President Rebecca Kaplan’s amendments to her administration’s...
Jay-Z is making money moves. Forbes announced Monday that Jay-Z has become the first hip-hop artist to rack up a billion-dollar fortune, thanks to lucrative investments...
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The California Assembly overwhelmingly passed legislation to change rules governing when cops in the state can use lethal force, despite last-minute opposition from some families of...
RingCentral Inc., a leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration, and contact center solutions, recently announced that the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum will now be renamed the...
Writing a budget is about the numbers, and it is also about our values. After the release of Mayor Libby Schaaf’s budget proposal, the law requires...
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren drew over 6,500 enthusiastic supporters to Laney College in Oakland last Friday evening, her largest campaign event in the country so far....
Earlier this year, it looked like California charter schools faced a mortal threat in the face of the first serious attempts in the state Legislature to...
Mike Siegel is coming to town on June 15 for an event to build support for his congressional campaign in the Texas 10th Congressional District. The...
Community Foods Market has opened its doors, making it West Oakland’s first full-service grocery store in over 40 years. A diverse crowd of about 1,500 people...
Standing-Room-Only Audience Attends 11th Annual Celebration The 11th Annual African and African American Graduation honored Peralta Community College District 2019, graduates on May 18, 2019 at...
Black women made military history last Saturday, as the West Point military academy graduated its class of 2019 with its highest-ever number of female African American...
Africville was an African-Canadian village located just north of Halifax and founded in the mid-18th century. The City of Halifax demolished the once-prosperous seaside community in...
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has appointed Oakland School Boardmember Roseann Torres as co-chair of his statewide Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative. Torres will...
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and the County Board of Supervisors are facing a growing furor from Oakland residents and community groups demanding an independent audit...
2020 Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren will host a town hall meeting in Oakland on Friday, May 31 as she builds a movem,ent for 2020. Doors open...
On Thursday, Rep. Barbara Lee joined political commentator Angela Rye for a panel discussion at the annual Push Tech 2020 Conference at Google headquarters in Mountain...
The Arab American Foundation presented their 2019 Award for Individual Achievement to former Berkeley Mayor Gus Newport at their annual Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards...
Another civil rights leader, Bayard Rustin, responded, “If my great-grandfather picked cotton for 50 years, then he may deserve some money, but he’s dead and gone...
Congratulations — the moment you have worked so hard for is finally here! You are ready to walk across that stage, grab that diploma and begin...
In a few days, the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims will be searching the sky again for the crescent moon, this time signaling the end of the...
