Councilmember Desley Brooks continues to garner national attention for her work in helping found Oakland’s Cannabis Equity program. Brooks was invited to speak at Harvard’s Kennedy...
Schaaf denounces Brooks’ proposal to train Blacks and Latinos for city-funded construction projects Resorting to name calling, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has turned to the local media...
By Han Li To win San Francisco’s top government job, London Breed has the smart way is to utilize her relationships with the city. Born and...
Demnlus Johnson III. Photo by Joe L. Fisher. Demnlus Johnson III is running for Richmond City council to continue moving Richmond forward in a manner that...
Oakland Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan is proposing a resolution to help improve safety for young people by allocating more funding for school crossing guards. “To encourage our...
Ben “Coach” Taspscott (top right) speaks at a meeting called by the school district Monday at Prescott Elementary to notify the school community of the possible...
By Desley Brooks | District 6 Councilwoman Construction is booming in Oakland. From almost anywhere in the city you can see cranes, building materials stacked near...
By Sun Kim | California Black Media Countless activists and protestors swarmed Sacramento City Hall in an effort to voice their concerns and feelings over the...
Benjamin Lin poses by fur coats at the B.B. Hawk showroom in San Francisco.(Photo: Eric Risberg, AP Images) By Janie Har (AP) San Francisco supervisors voted unanimously...
The first stop on the March 17 “Trash Tour” was outside Mayor Libby Schaaf’s house, which tdhen made its way through flatland neighborhoods in East Oakland,...
Members and supporters attend March 8 meeting of Interfaith Council of Alameda County (ICAC). Rev. Ken Chambers is shown at bottom, second from right. The City...
Businessman Virtual Murrell talks with the Honorable Willie Brown at the Niagara Movement Democratic Club’s 45th Anniversary at Geoffrey’s Inner Circle in Oakland. Photo by Carla...
Sun Kim, protested in downtown Sacramento at the NRA headquarters. By Sun Kim | California Black Media Protesters of all backgrounds converged on the Sacramento headquarters...
Oakland Firefighters Union Local 55 has endorsed Desley Brooks in her re-election to the Oakland City Council District 6 seat. The fire department’s Field Operations Bureau...
Supporters of the Affordable Housing Act, an initiative for the November ballot, rallied last Saturday in East Oakland. Photo By Ken Epstein. Affordable housing supporters held...
Mayor Libby Schaaf declined to recommend reappointment of Rebecca Kaplan to the position Oakland residents lost the only representative they have had in over two decades on...
By Desley Brooks Thank you to the editors at the Post for allowing me to shed some insight into what it takes to push through the...
Protester carrying a sign while marching in an anti-Trump rally in New York City in 2016. By Annie “Q” Sajid This past President’s Day, many anti-Trump rallies...
Desley Brooks’ campaign for reelection to the District 6 seat on the Oakland City Council was endorsed this week by prominent activist Bobby Seale, co-founder of...
By Manny Otiko | California Black Media State Senate leader Kevin de Leon is being accused of being insensitive to the Black gay community. De Leon...
Speakers concerned about Chief Kirkpatrick’s interference in council decisions; Her actions also cost her former employer, City of Spokane, $1.7 million jury award Conflicts about...
Local Attorney Pamela Price spoke last weekend at a packed house meeting in Berkeley about her campaign to replace incumbent Nancy O’Malley to become the next...
By Barbara Lee Today, we celebrate National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and reflect on the tremendous strides we have made in the fight against HIV since...
A new City of Oakland report showd that during the past two years African American workers obtained a little over 9 percent of journeyman and apprentice...
High school students were among those who came out to speak at the Public Safety Committee meeting in Nov. 10 to oppose Oakland Police Department participation...
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