In his first official appearance as the 21st Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Juan Felipe Herrera has announced at the Library of Congress National Book Festival...
Lately, you haven’t been feeling like yourself. You’ve always been a bounce-out-of-bed kind of person, but not anymore: you’re achy now, tired, and you...
By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Courtesy of the Washington Post Ernest Hemingway once said that courage was “grace under pressure.” Two presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie...
By The Save Midtown Tenants Committee Three short weeks ago, a group of tenants at Midtown Park Apartments in San Francisco’s Fillmore District launched...
Berkeley, CA – If you didn’t come to see one of the best bands in the HBCU system. Than you were probably reminded that blowouts were...
Over 100 people gathered at the South Berkeley Senior Center Saturday, Aug. 29 to strategize ways to eliminate racial inequality in the city. The...
Mario T. García , National Catholic Reporter Aug.29 marks the historic anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium. The event was commemorated this year in Oakland...
Nearly 800 faith leaders, victims of police misconduct, family members of people killed by law enforcement, and other community members staged a sit-in outside of Governor...
A landmark victory this week to reduce long-term solitary confinement in California will immediately release up to 2,000 prisoners who have been held in isolation...
Nearly 40 East Bay residents packed Emeryville City Council this week demanding that city officials urge the Alameda County coroner’s office to release the autopsy...
Activists from Chicago have been on a hunger strike for more than two weeks to save Chicago’s Dyett High School, which has been closed. ...
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, Mara Jacqueline Willaford and two other members of Seattle’s Black Lives Matter chapter captured...
Local residents are raising concerns about “meeting procedures” and “meeting norms” dictating the behavior of the Oakland Board of Education, which could limit board members’ ability...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee has announced that the City of Oakland will receive a $16,470,400 federal grant to support Head Start and Early Head Start Programs....
“King Hedley II,” as presented by the Lower Bottom Playaz, is a must-see to understand the many social problems and generational barriers that play a part...
Nicky Woolf – The Guardian A Baltimore judge on Wednesday denied a raft of motions aimed at removing state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby from a case...
By Joe Satran, Huffington Post When your children are sick, it’s hard not to want doctors to do everything in their power to cure them....
Joelito’s Big Decision /La gran decisión de Joelito, a beautifully illustrated and translated Spanish/English bilingual book, will soon be published. It’s about a boy...
Rebecca Klein- The Huffington Post A group of Chicago residents finished the 11th day of a hunger strike last Thursday in an attempt to move...
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is supporting DreamCatcher Youth Services, signing on as honorary host and speaker at “OUT for DreamCatcher,” a fundraising reception on Saturday, Sept....
By Shaun King, Daily Kos This past week in Houston, Texas a white police officer, Darren Goforth, was fatally shot and killed by a Black...
Nearly 1 in 5 adults over 65 in California — more than three-quarters of a million people — live in an economic no-man’s land, unable to...
Family and friends gathered at San Pablo Park on Sunday to remember Benjamin Lusk Jr., sharing memories of his life and caring spirit that touched so...
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. today announced the launch of its 2015 Fuel Your School program, an innovative collaboration with DonorsChoose.org, an online organization that makes it easy...
By Troy Williams After reading articles written by Richard Johnson (in the Post newspaper), watching the impact of violence on communities across America, the release of...
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