Klobuchar Ends Campaign After Raucous Rally

NNPA NEWSWIRE — MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — Around 300 supporters showed up hoping to hear Klobuchar speak. But the planned event never got off the ground. About...

COMMENTARY: The Homelessness Crisis – We Are Better Than This

NNPA NEWSWIRE — There are half a million people, mostly men, mostly white, but way too many African Americans. African Americans are 13 percent of the...

Day After Black Lives Matter Activists Shut Down Rally, Sen Amy Klobuchar Drops Out of 2020 Race

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The BLM activists at Klobuchar’s rally were referring to the case of Myon Burrell. Burrell was convicted of murder as a teenager as...

CDC Removes Data on Number of People Tested for Coronavirus from Website as Infection Numbers Spike

NNPA NEWSWIRE — There have been more than 89,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world and over 3,000 deaths. The vast majority of cases have...

Documenting History: Rep. John Lewis Leads 55th Anniversary Selma March

NNPA NEWSWIRE — "Fifty-five years ago, a few of our children attempted to march across this bridge. We were beaten, we were tear gassed. I thought...

South Carolina Democratic Black Caucus Chair Says Tom Steyer Understands all of the Issues

NNPA NEWSWIRE — "Tom Steyer is genuine. I was at an event talking about judicial executions with police and Black folk's being slaughtered by the cops,"...

Schumer, Pelosi Joint Statement on Congressional Action to Combat The Coronavirus

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The United States government must do more to address the spread of the deadly coronavirus in a smart, strategic, and serious way and...

Voting Rights Advocates File Emergency After Georgia Officials Strike Early Voting Sites in Gwinnett County

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Gwinnett County’s plan means that history is likely going to repeat itself. During the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, Gwinnett County had only...

Brown, Senate Democrats Press Upstart, Lenders for Answers Following Reports of Higher Interest Rates for Students of Minority-Serving Institutions

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) prohibits discrimination in any aspect of a credit transaction. Under the statute, lenders can be liable if...

Congress Passes Historic Anti-Lynching Legislation

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) called lynchings racially-motivated acts of violence and terror that represent a dark and despicable chapter of our nation's history....

NNPA EXCLUSIVE — Biden Says, ‘The Black Vote Will Determine the Nominee’

NNPA NEWSWIRE — "I got started in the African American community. I got involved in the Civil Rights Movement when I was a kid. I helped...

Fired Police Chief Kirkpatrick Was “Backsliding” on OPD Reforms, Say Poice Accountability Leaders

The seemingly sudden firing of Oakland Police Dept. Chief Anne Kirkpatrick on Feb. 20, 2020, without a publicly stated reason initially left some Oaklanders wondering how...

The City is Needlessly Exposing Taxpayers to a $240M Liability

The Oakland City Council accepted over $240 million state taxpayer dollars to support what it promised would be a transformative, generational project creating jobs, expediting commerce,...

The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement: Bernie 2020

“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” – Speech...

Kaplan Urges Yes Vote on Measure R & Measure C

Please Vote for Measure R. The City of Oakland, like many local governments, has public notices that are required to be published in a newspaper, to...

Two New Bills Threaten Your ‘Right to Know’

Under current California law, all public notices must be published in newspapers. Signed into law in Sept. 27, 2016 by former Gov. Jerry Brown, the goal...

Assemblymember Shirley Weber Introduces ‘Reparations’ Bill

Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus, has introduced, a new bill, AB 3121. It calls for setting up a task...

Seven High Schoolers to Join Rep. Barbara Lee In Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama

Seven high school youth leaders from Oakland’s Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center will attend the 2020 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama March 6- March...

Assemblymember Sandre Swanson Hosts Mike Bloomberg Gun Violence Roundtable

Last Tuesday, Assemblymember Sandre Swanson hosted a Gun Violence Roundtable forum to present Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s work on gun violence prevention. Bloomberg, a democratic presidential candidate...

Bloomberg’s Greenwood Initiative Aims to Create One Million New Black Homeowners

NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to Steve Benjamin, mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, and a spokesman for the Bloomberg Campaign, “Mike doesn’t just talk about ideas; he...

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. Interviews Vice President Joe Biden LIVE!

Mapping the Count: Census Week of Action

NNPA NEWSWIRE — To ensure all are counted, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is inviting you to take part in the...

OP-ED: Big Insurance Must Help End Surprise Medical Billing

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Known as “surprise medical billing,” these unexpected costs arise when a patient goes to a hospital for emergency or non-emergency care, only to...