The California State Senate this week passed AB 953, the Racial and Identity Profiling Act, following a mass mobilization of California anti-mass incarceration and police...
Oakland, CA – The time is finally here, a chance to see the new and improved Raiders open up the season at home against the Minnesota...
By Anh Le Ms. Verlie Mae Pickens, who celebrated her 99th birthday in June, has been a resident of San Francisco for 66 years and a...
By Ibraheem Muhammad Up and coming artist Jidenna recently delivered a classic performance for fans in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena neighborhood. Known for his...
Courtesy of AP The parents of Freddie Gray have reached a tentative $6.4 million settlement with the city of Baltimore, nearly five months after...
The San Leandro Main Library, located at 300 Estudillo Avenue, will host its first “How To” Festival on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 11 a.m. to...
By Ms. Verlie Mae Pickens Hello there! This is Verlie Mae Pickens. I celebrated my 99th Birthday on June 11. I was born...
Singer Tiffany Austin was on cloud nine last Friday. National Public Radio had just broadcast a rave review by critic Kevin Whitehead on its...
A tree cannot withstand the storms if its roots are weak. A building will not stand without a strong foundation. An economy will not prosper...
The Bay Area Latino Festival will take place noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12 at the Oracle Arena East Side Club 7000 Coliseum Way...
By SARAH MASLIN NIR, The New York Times SANTA CLARA, Calif. — In a rare step, the sheriff of Santa Clara County on Thursday arrested...
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....
