I’m all for recycling. The good kind. Paper. Plastics. Just not the hate. But what do we have with us in Atlanta? It’s Vincent...
A new developer, JMB Capital, has acquired the project and has offered to sit down with city officials to discuss the potential to not ship coal...
“The first reason Black parents are reluctant to have their children return to school is health and safety. More Black children are likely to live in...
The insurrectos are very different from the insurrectionists you’ve been hearing about in the news recently. The rioters who attacked Capitol Hill on January 6, were...
King advocated for diversity, for an end to discrimination. His “dream” has not come to fruition. Some might argue that we are in a nightmare with...
Due to Sen. Harris’s soon to be ascension to the Vice Presidency, and Gov. Newsom’s selection of Secretary of State Padilla as V.P. elect Harris’s replacement...
It is going to be a hard Christmas for many Americans. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is soaring. The virus is spreading faster than ever. Families...
As someone who has been self-employed as a rideshare driver and a freelance writer, I’ve received a crash course in making sense of the quirks and...
OPINION “American educators, this is a great day for you. You will have one of your own in the White House,” said Joe Biden in a...
I am proud to endorse Otheree Christian for West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD), Area 2. As a Richmond native, a graduate of John F....
The following commentary is mine and mine alone. I do not speak for the Jobs and Housing Coalition or The McConnell Group’s clients. I recently read...
It’s no secret there is a housing affordability crisis in California. And a homelessness crisis of epic proportion. Both deeply and disproportionately affect Black communities across...
When I heard the sad news of the death of former Oakland A’s player Joe Morgan it reminded me of last week’s talk with Dave Kaval,...
This statement was made to the Berkeley Planning Commission’s special meeting on the Adeline Corridor Plan on Sept. 16, 2020, represented as a “long-range…blueprint for the...
A common misconception of the criminal justice system is that it is as simple as guilty people admitting their guilt and innocent people going free. The...
In the mid-1960s, the University of California, Berkeley, started its Educational Opportunity Program to target underrepresented applicants and combat its history of discrimination. Unsurprisingly, this program...
The world looks very different right now. From the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires that have destroyed parts of the West Coast to growing social unrest, we’re...
The community committee to recommend electoral endorsements for City Attorney interviewed the candidates for that office. Based on our discussion, we asked civil rights attorney Walter Riley,...
It’s August in California and hundreds of thousands of educators are about to step into the uncertainty of distance and hybrid learning models during a pandemic....
Specific areas below to support the revitalization of the African American business community during the Biden and Harris era. 1) The Biden administration must place a...
Hundreds of fires have erupted in California after a rare lightning storm hit the coast during a record heatwave. The fires have caused unhealthy air quality...
Yes, prisoners are in prison, right or wrong, but that does not mean they should be allowed to die from something that possibly could have been...
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to serve on a major party’s presidential ticket made history last week when Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s...
Judicial elections are non-partisan and one would hope less fraught with politics-as-usual tactics. But in the contest for No. 2 seat on the Alameda County Superior...
August 6 is the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. If the constitutional amendments passed after the Civil War — the 13, 14 and 15th...