The new Racial Justice Act makes the new law retroactive with a phased-in timeline for prisoners to apply for relief. Prisoners sentenced to death and people...
The Formerly Incarcerated Giving Back (FIGB) refuses to be denied restorative justice: we want our voices heard. We want solutions. We want affordable housing. We want...
Don’t miss the boat. You’ve got to vote, especially in this political age of denial. From election denial to DACA denial to now student loan forgiveness...
BART, which is by far the largest distributor of new plastic Clipper cards, has installed signs near ticket vending machines at its stations to let customers...
Improving roadway conditions across unincorporated areas of Marin has been an ongoing commitment of the County for years and is one of the top priorities for...
Election laws changed a few years ago requiring local elections for cities, towns, schools and special districts to be consolidated with statewide elections to increase voter...
“Terrence Riley has demonstrated his deep commitment to youth development and education through his 13+ year tenure at Aim High. He will undoubtedly bring leadership and...
Black voters have the power to decide the election in Georgia, which will probably decide the future of our country in some ways we can predict...
Conservatives have attacked the debt forgiveness plan as expensive overreach of executive authority since the plan was announced. In this case, the six states argued that the...
District 6 school board candidate Kyra Mungia’s opponents in District 6, Valarie Bachelor and Joel Velasquez, are allied with the movement against school closings and are...
“Meanwhile, Mills students have seen a drastic reduction in programs and workers are concerned that Northeastern has a history of union busting, and the community is...
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of October 26 - November 1, 2022
The Honorable Willie L. Brown, Jr, Esq., former mayor of San Francisco, made the case for Black students to have the financial support to attend law...
The Providence, R.I.–born Philip Bell Downing was creative from childhood, always looking for ways to improve on the routines of daily life. As the son of...
Valencia Burton Horton was then a real estate broker but couldn’t provide a home for her own family. She kept her faith and continued to move...
College Corps represents the first and largest state-level investment in a college service program in the country, with $146 million earmarked for up to 6,500 students...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), these reformulated, single dose boosters are referred to as “bivalent” because they are meant to defend...
California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom has been quiet on the Democrat versus Democrat Los Angeles mayoral race. Bass, who is running to be the first Black Woman...
Currently, marijuana is considered a Schedule 1 drug, grouping it in the same category as heroin and Ecstasy. A review could result in the drug being...
President Biden pointed out that Republicans “who voted against the Infrastructure Bill, called me and the bill “socialist” and then attacked — all Democrats who passed...
As the only Black man on Oakland’s City Council, I know firsthand that public safety is an intersectional issue. It requires a focus on the history...
Thanks to Gay and Paul Cobb, the owners of the Post News Group (who once marched with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to reinstate our...
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of October 19 - 25, 2022
When I sit in the company of Mr. Ussery, I am reminded of being in Mississippi. I feel as though I am sitting on my grandfather’s...
I know that some folks don’t vote because they believe their vote doesn’t matter. History shows that it does. The best example I can think of...
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