Healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente and the Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) reached an agreement this week to stop the outsourcing of 63 gardeners...
Orlando Gray, Oakland High School girls basketball head coach, has won California Coach of the Year from both CalHi Sports and MaxPreps. “It was pretty special...
As the 2018-19 Oakland Unified School District’s (OUSD) academic year winds down in the wake of an historic teachers’ strike, Oakland educators, students, and their supporters...
Thousands of students, families and educators came together at Acts Full Gospel Church Monday evening for the 18th Annual African American Honor Roll Celebration. The event...
The Port of Oakland is moving ahead on a plan to let the A’s build at Howard Terminal, despite vocal opposition of labor and port businesses. The...
Despite a long history of segregation and racism, America’s top pageants have broken racial barriers in recent decades. Vanessa Williams became the first Black woman to...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on the passage of the FY2020 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill...
Rev. Leora Mae Bland Overall was born on Oct. 5, 1921 to Early and Ora Bland. She accepted Jesus into her life at the age of...
Friend of Job Training Programs Russell Lowell Bouligny Sr., aged 70, passed away on April 25, 2019 in Union City, CA. Russell was a loving husband, father,...
Children and families gathered for a rally Wednesday in Oakland to call attention to the injustice of the bail and pretrial detention system as part of...
Almost half of the injured scooter riders in Austin, Texas, identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its first-ever study of dockless electric...
A special celebration of Oakland’s African-American abstract expressionist artist Arthur Monroe runs through May 26th with a series of events at 54 Washington Street in Oakland’s...
Led by their mentor Asatu Musunama Hall, the members of Youth Empowered Wombmyn Achieving Self, Rites of Passage Program and Sisters of Tomorrow, honored 14 women...
Wells Fargo Bank gave a $2 million grant to an Oakland-based small business lender on Monday morning, according to bank officials. The donation to Main Street...
Uber drivers around the world are logging out of the company’s app to protest its compensation policies ahead of a blockbuster public offering. Strikes occurred on...
Commuters Asked to Provide Feedback on Potential Express Bus Stop Locations West Contra Costa County commuters are one step closer to having more commute choices with...
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) formally introduces a bill that she and others hope will help to stop federal agencies from overlooking Black-, other minority-, and...
These days, you just don’t know what to expect. Things used to be laid out nice and easy: a real man took care of business, he...
Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration this week released its proposal for the city’s $3.2 billion, two year-year budget for 2019-2021, which must be approved by the end...
The City Council this week honored small businesses in the city, recognizing “the key role that they play in driving Oakland’s economy and contributing to the...
Oakland’s Community Police Review Agency (CPRA) released a shocking report on May 3 exonerating four Oakland police officers who shot and killed an unconscious man, Joshua...
A Warrior for Peace and Justice The life and legacy of the Honorable Ronald V. Dellums will be memorialized this week in two events taking place...
Ruth Beckford, the legendary dancer, choreographer and Oakland community activist died May 8 of natural causes. She was 93. Beckford, known as The Dance Lady, toured...
It seems President Donald Trump is intensifying his anti-immigrant stance. On Monday evening, he sent a memo to acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan...
Increasing the minimum wage and expanding a tax credit for low-wage workers may prevent more than 1,200 suicides each year, according to a new working paper...
