In the summer of 2019 Mayor Libby Schaaf announced plans to construct a safe RV parking site for unhoused residents living along Wood Street in West Oakland...
On July 22, our community lost a beloved friend and leader, Denise Gums. Denise was a true pan-Africanist, a fearless social advocate, an inspiring community patron,...
Oakland residents are invited to Eastmont Mall August 22-23, 2020, to attend the largest COVID-19 testing event ever staged in the East Bay. Umoja Health, a...
What started out to be a protest against a purportedly racial-bias incident on the shores of Lake Merritt near the Cleveland Cascades in April 2018, has...
A happy mix of Oakland Street Academy staff and parents planned the school’s approach to distance learning together at an evening Zoom meeting. It...
In a virtual press conference on Aug. 6, legislators announced Assembly Bill 767, which will make it easier for victims of violence, including by police, to...
Read part 1 here As I was writing my most recent book, “Race for the Net,” over the last 30 months, I did not envision an...
August 6 is the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. If the constitutional amendments passed after the Civil War — the 13, 14 and 15th...
Activist and former Berkeley mayoral candidate Mike Lee died at age 64 of complications related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease early in the week of Aug....
The quest to raise $1 million to save and sustain local, small, Black-owned businesses in Oakland has come to fruition, according to Cathy D. Adams, president...