Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan joined with Alameda city officials, homeless providers and community faith leaders to commemorate the opening of the Alameda Warming Shelter...
Oakland City Council will be sworn in to office, including three newly-elected members. Immediately after the swearing-in (which starts at 11 a.m.), the Council will...
On Friday, Dec. 14, Oakland City Council convened a special meeting to certify and declare the passage of Measure AA, the Oakland Children’s Initiative, despite the...
At this week’s City Council meeting, Assistant to the City Administrator Joe DeVries reported on another set of “Tuff Sheds” the city is installing. Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca...
State Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), with co-authors Sen. Scott Wiener, and Assemblymembers Rob Bonta and Buffy Wicks, this week unveiled SB 18 “Keep Californians Housed,” which...
The Oakland City Council, bypassing opportunities for public input, rushed this week to approve a Schaaf administration agreement with the Oakland Police Officers Association (OPOA) that...
Shamann Walton looked at ease as he stood in the Laughing Monk Brewery on Egbert Street in the Bay View area. This was the site of...
City Councilmembers this week took the “first step” to implement the “2018 Oakland Equity Indicators Report,” a recent study that provides data on racial disparities experienced...
Mayor Libby Schaaf easily won reelection this week, while the victory of three new representatives to the City Council could mean a shift in power dynamics...
Top left of right. Pastor Joe Nobles, Pastor Dr. Kevin Ary, Rev. Eric Barfield, Pastor Eli Lloyd D.D. Second step far left not should, Bishop Johnson,...
Marlo Rodriguez is not a typical candidate. Her background is not political science or law. She is a registered nurse. She is running for City Council...
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...
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