For African American millennials, the dream remains deferred – and in some cases, is a nightmare. “The American Dream, the idea that anyone can succeed through...
Tens of thousands of spiritual speakers around the world have been touched by James Weeks’ online essays and affirmations. Now in book form for the first...
The “Black History Seven” is a phrase I created to reference the same people we talk about, read about, and focus on every year during Black...
Last Friday, Congresswoman Barbara Lee was named by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as one of six House Democratic members on the conference committee to negotiate homeland...
Kamala Harris returned to her birth place to kick off her campaign for the US presidency with some hometown flair. The Clouds cleared for a rally...
As the formal search for a permanent Pastor continues, retiring Senior Pastor, Rev. Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Jr., announced Jan. 27, that Assistant Pastor Rev. Dr....
The Oakland Board of Education voted this week despite the opposition of hundreds of Roots students and families and their supporters. Parent leaders pledged to continue...
While special education support staff in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) broadly back the Oakland Education Association’s (OEA) proposed strike and its demands to increase...
Leave me alone. That’s what you’d like to tell just about everybody right now: go away. Stop talking to me. Don’t fuss, quit fighting, put away...
President Trump apparently has decided that intervention in Venezuela’s agonies can help repair an image scarred by the government shutdown debacle. In recent days, he recognized...
An Alabama civil rights museum reversed course after a public outcry and reinstated a human rights award to activist Angela Davis that it had previously rescinded,...
Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced this week that she will be running for president in 2020. The theme of Harris’ campaign will be “For the people,”...
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is a day off for many—but in Oakland, it’s a day on for service and activism. A Day of Activism By...
A group of community leaders and activists came together Thursday to call on the state to increase funding for Oakland public schools and to end the...
By Ken Epstein Families and teachers from Roots International Academy, supported by hundreds of teachers and community members, shut down the Board of Education meeting...
Testif-i, a storytelling project of the re-entry program A New Way of Life, is seeking the stories of formerly incarcerated women, as well as the children...
Adamika Village, a grass-roots organization based in Oakland committed to ending gun violence, police violence, domestic violence and human trafficking, hosted their second annual “No Yellow...
Public Invited to Event led by New Pastor Dr. Rosalynn Brookins on Jan. 20 Parks Chapel A.M.E. is inviting the public to participate in its celebratory...
Dr. Macheo Payne, an Oakland native and founding deputy director of Youth UpRising (YU), has returned to lead the community-based nonprofit as president and CEO. As...
As the school’s leader, she helped raise generations of students for 40 years A memorial will be held for former Oakland Academy Principal Patricia “Ms. Pat”...
The Oakland Unified School District is moving full throttle with the closing of Roots International Academy, even though the proposal has not yet been approved by...
PG&E has partnered with faith leader Dr. Lawrence VanHook of The Community Church in Oakland to offer low-income households extensive discounts on their energy bills. Some...
As Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) teachers prepare for a possible strike, many teachers, students, and community members are showing support for their demand to increase...
Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced the first $5.2 million investment from Kaiser Permanente’s $200 million Thriving Communities Fund....
The Oakland City Council’s Life Enrichment Committee passed a resolution this week to name the unnamed road adjacent to the West side of the Fruitvale BART...
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