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...
More than one million veterans have returned from wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Middle East with symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Most veterans...
Written by Walter Thompson-Hernández, http://remezcla.com The myth of the Latin American racial democracy, scholars believe, began in Brazil following the abolishment of slavery in 1888,...
Fast-food workers, care givers, and store employees in hundreds of cities across the country walked off the job Tuesday demanding a $15-an-hour minimum wage and union...
Tensions remain high at Berkeley High School in the wake of a student walkout sparked by the discovery of a written message in the school library...
A report released by Rep. Maxine Waters, ranking member of the House Committee on Financial Services, and members of the Congressional Black, Hispanic and Asian Pacific...
The Department of Race and Equity, which was initiated by councilmember Desley Brooks, will be heard before the Finance Committee at 9:30 a.m., Nov. 10 at...
The Tehama County Superior Court in northern California has overturned the wrongful conviction of Larry Pohlschneider, a client of Santa Clara University School of Law’s Northern...
Marina Fang ,The Huffington Post President Barack Obama has announced a series of measures designed to reduce obstacles facing former prisoners reintegrating into society,...
By Ina Jaffe, NPR News As Dean Cole’s dementia worsened, he began wandering at night. He’d even forgotten how to drink water. His wife, Virginia,...
The California Nurses Association (CNA) has endorsed former East Bay Assemblymember Sandré Swanson for State Senate. The CNA’s support follows recent endorsements by East Bay...
Despite the opposition of the City of Richmond and a number of health, faith, labor and human rights groups, the Contra Costa County Board of...
“It takes heart to fight something that so many consider a lost cause. A strong mind to breathe life into that cause and prove so many...
(Salon) – Earlier this year, President Obama released 22 people serving federal prison terms for non-violent drug offenses. Seven of which, had been previously sentenced to life in...
(Time) – President Obama said that if he could run for a third term he thinks he would win, while calling for African leaders to adhere...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As Medicare and Medicaid turn 50 this week, the nation takes a look at the impact...
John Wagner, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW ORLEANS (The Washington Post) — Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders made his first major outreach to the African American community this...
Bill Barrow, ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENVILLE, South Carolina (AP) — In her second bid for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton is discussing “systemic racism” and making...
Bill Barrow, ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENVILLE, South Carolina (AP) — In her second bid for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton is discussing “systemic racism” and making...
David Montgomery, THE NEW YORK TIMES HEMPSTEAD, Tex. (The New York Times) — The Texas sheriff whose policies have come under intense criticism in the aftermath...