More than 1,000 apartments, retail and commercial space to revive Seventh Street Decades after BART rolled through West Oakland destroying what was once a vibrant, Black,...
Heralded for the success of the museum he led from idea to fruition, Lonnie G. Bunch III is the first African American to lead the Smithsonian...
The setting is a quaint old church in San Francisco about to close if attendance doesn’t increase. As Mother Superior struggles with these impending woes, in...
Long hours worked by Erica Alfaro’s parents, picking berries in the fields of California, motivated her to obtain a master’s degree from San Diego State University....
Learning Black History Year Round There are many stories told about extraordinary slave escapes. Without maps or compasses, many depended on quilts, songs, and even the...
God on Wall Street Someone once said, “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” And if reparations is a crisis in America, it would be...
There are some stories that no matter how they’re cast or recast, what’s wrong stays wrong until certain directors give the work a nuanced tweak that...
The Black Church is in the community in the S.F. Bay Area Every Wednesday evening, an extraordinary gathering takes place at Imani Community Church in Oakland....
Local musician Larry Brooks (better known as B.B. Brooks), has passed away at the age of 72. B.B. was born on November 15, 1946 and died...
About 80 youth had the rare opportunity to shoot hoops with NBA basketball legend Jason Kidd at the Willie Keyes Recreation Center in West Oakland recently....
Thousands of California teachers, students and school officials—from Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco, Richmond, Los Angeles and other school districts, marched through downtown Sacramento and rallied at...
The Board of Education’s Community of Schools Policy calls on us to reimagine our school system to ensure a quality school for all Oakland students. We...
The State Division of Occupational Safety and Health, commonly known as Cal/OSHA, has sent a letter requiring the Oakland Unified School District to deal with an...
Announcement follows Newsom’s May budget revision, which includes $1 billion to fight California’s homelessness crisis Governor Gavin Newsom, in a visit to Oakland this week, announced...
City Council President Rebecca Kaplan has called a special City Council meeting in June to present proposed amendments to the $3.2 billion, two-year budget proposal recently...
Dr. Joel Tolbert, Sr., loving husband to Carol Lee Tolbert, former Oakland School Board member, and Founder of Civic Pride, Inc. passed from this life on...
Holy Names University (HNU) commencement speaker Paul Cobb challenged the graduating class to “Just Serve” the community by organizing themselves into a postgraduate network to strategize...
Richard Watson ‘holds down the bass’ beforeheading off to Berklee School of Music Vocal Rush, a five-time national champion a cappella ensemble based out of Oakland...
Blue Shield of California and the American Heart Association (AHA) recently hosted their second annual “Make Time For Health” festival, a three – year program that...
Last Saturday – a beautiful, sunny day in West Oakland – the banquet room at the West Oakland Senior Center (WOSC) was filled with over 200...
The “whatever it takes” approach to addressing homelessness in Marin County is working. By prioritizing the most vulnerable residents for stable supportive housing, the Marin County...
The City of San Leandro and the San Leandro invite the public to attend the Jangala ballet performance by the Oakland Ballet Company. The event will...
I’ve been a part of a number of different groups at Berkeley. When I first got here, I joined the Muslim Student Association and Students for...
Benji Friedman is an artist living in Berkeley, who works in a variety of mediums, from paint to collage to found sculptures to digital pieces. Follow...
The Oakland City Council has taken a first step in codifying building standards currently used for Tuffshed encampments, approving housing facilities for the homeless that could be...
