In District 6, doing the same thing we have been doing for the last several years will not give us different results. We need new representation...
From left to right: Kristina Duong, David Duong, and Victor Duong. California Waste Solutions (CWS) is doing all it can to vacate its current location in...
“Desley has the courage to speak naked truth to the powerful people with money who run everything,” says Rev. J. Alfred Smith Sr. Until now, District...
Laney College’s Poor Peoples Campaign Teach-In Committee is hosting a teach-in Tuesday Oct. 30, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Student Center at Laney College in downtown...
Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond) recently held a media call with members of the Black press to discuss his plans for California’s education system. Thurmond is competing...
Price has been endorsed by Black Democratic Clubs and Dr. H. Geoffrey Watson The Pamela Price for Oakland Mayor campaign has joined forces with the Jovanka Beckles...
A lot is at stake for District 6 voters in this election. We have serious issues around affordable housing, gentrification, displacement, illegal dumping, blight, and economic...
City Attorney Barbara Parker, Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick, Mayor Libby Schaaf and City Administrator Sabrina Landreth. Photo courtesy of Oakland Magazine. Back in July when...
Black Women Organized for Political Action, or BWOPA, started in 1968, when about 200 Black women throughout the Bay Area worked to get Ronald V. Dellums...
A community coalition comprised of Pastors, former Black Panther Co-Founder, Bobby Seale, Civil Rights attorneys and residents held a press conference this week calling out “money...
Yesterday, Schools and Communities First, a powerful statewide coalition of nearly 300 endorsing community organizations, labor unions, business leaders, philanthropic foundations and elected officials, announced the...
I’m running for Oakland City Council District 6 because we need change so we can focus on addressing the serious challenges that have gone unaddressed in...
Incumbent Annie Campbell Washington is not running for reelection in District 4, and seven candidates are campaigning for the empty seat, which represents the Montclair, Dimond...
The national Working Families Party (WFP) announced today that they are offering their sole endorsement to Cat Brooks for mayor of Oakland. “At Working Families Party...
This week, Congresswoman Barbara Lee announced her support for Jovanka Beckles for Assembly. She released the following statement: “I’m proud to announce my support of Jovanka...
In a recent news article, the secretary-treasurer of the local Building Trades Council asserted that racism is no longer a problem within the construction unions. He...
After months of investigation, the law firm of Siegel, Yee & Brunner filed a claim on behalf of Oakland City Councilmember Desley Brooks this week against...
The City’s Public Ethics Commission on Thursday announced campaign expenditure ceilings are lifted for candidates in City Council Districts 2, 4 and now District 6, as...
Martin MacKerel (left) and Matthew Gerring hold up a sign that reads “No Coal in Oakland” outside of developer Phil Tagami’s Crocker Highlands home on Oct....
Oakland’s third Tuff Shed village has been installed south of Lake Merritt, across the street from Laney College, just next to the Henry J. Kaiser Convention...
The Oakland Post equally endorses Cat Brooks and Pamela Price for mayor of Oakland and supports Saied Karamooz in third place on the Nov. 6 ranked choice ballot. We...
Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (left) and Marshall Tuck. Marshall Tuck and Assemblymember Tony Thurmond, the two leading candidates for state superintendent of Public Instruction, held a forum...
“Systemic cruelty” – That’s how United Nations Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha described Oakland’s housing crisis. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can keep families...
Speaking at a mayoral forum Wednesday evening at the First Presbyterian Church of Oakland were candidates (L to R): Marchon Tatmon, Pamela Price, Libby Schaaf and...
Oakland’s demographics are changing. Join the Oakland Mayor’s Commission on Aging for a series of Community Presentation & Listening Sessions to find out how you, your...