By Kevin D Sawyer San Quentin News Journalist This week’s 50th Anniversary of the National Football League’s Super Bowl game pits the Carolina Panthers against...
Assemblymembers Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond) and David Chiu (D-San Francisco), representing the California Latino Legislative Caucuses and the California Asian Pacific Islander (API) Legislative Caucus respectively, have...
A federal judge ruled this week against a class action lawsuit to overturn San Francisco’s bail bond system because –typical of bail systems throughout the country...
Gus Newport spoke Jan. 18 at Mari City’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on King’s dream of the “Beloved Community.” Newport, worked and marched with...
Over a hundred community members crowded the city council’s Community and Economic Development (CED) committee meeting Tuesday to react a staff report on the feasibility and...
The Coalition for Police Accountability is hosting a town hall meeting to discuss recent interactions between residents and the Oakland Police Department (OPD). The meeting...
By Casey Tolan, Fusion While the state government mobilizes a massive response to the water crisis in Flint, handing out bottled water and filters to...
By Anh Do, L.A. Times Anaheim Supt. Michael Matsuda has a special connection the district and its homeless students
Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) invites highly motivated young women who are passionate about making a difference in their communities to apply for its...
“Contrary to the big promises, the proposed new coal terminal will not produce jobs for members of the community,” according to organizers of a community meeting...
Pretty much everyone in Oakland recognizes that commercial and residential rents are running out of control, and longtime residents are being forced out of the city...
By Manny Otiko/California Black Media Dr. Shirley Thornton, a retired educator and colonel in the United States Army Reserves, remembers reaching a “glass ceiling” when...
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), and Children Now have announced legislation aimed at improving the mental health of children who have experienced...
By Hina Shamsi, Director, ACLU National Security Project A settlement in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenge to NYPD surveillance of New York Muslims...
After last month’s victory in getting the University of California system to sell nearly $30 million in private prison holdings, the Afrikan Black Coalition (ABC) is...
By Ben Allen For decades, if someone on Medicaid wanted to get treatment for drug or alcohol addiction, they almost always had to rely solely...
By Alyza Katrina C. Torres, Latin Post. Protesters from a pro-immigrant rights coalition group last Friday held a rally in New York City airing their...
By Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post Days after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) apologized for toxic tap water in the city of Flint and accepted the...
The City of Oakland’s Department of Race and Equity is launching this month under the watchful eyes of many Oakland residents who came out to meeting...
By Martin Johnson, The Root The past always informs the future, and never more so these days than in “Finding Your Roots,” the PBS program...
City Attorney Dennis Herrera this week filed notice with the California Court of Appeal that he will challenge a San Francisco Superior Court decision allowing police...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a member of the bipartisan Congressional Cuba Working Group’s Steering Committee, released a statement marking the first anniversary of President Obama’s historic announcement...
United for Success Academy, a public middle school in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, hosted a Thanksgiving food distribution Wednesday, Nov. 18, put on by Safe...
Interfaith leaders and community residents held rituals, services and a rally this week to demand Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley drop the charges against the...
By Katy Reckdahl, the Advocate Mwalimu Johnson, a prison-reform advocate and a sought-after counselor to thousands of fellow inmates, died last Tuesday of kidney failure...