Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on the passage of the FY2020 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill...
Rev. Leora Mae Bland Overall was born on Oct. 5, 1921 to Early and Ora Bland. She accepted Jesus into her life at the age of...
Friend of Job Training Programs Russell Lowell Bouligny Sr., aged 70, passed away on April 25, 2019 in Union City, CA. Russell was a loving husband, father,...
Children and families gathered for a rally Wednesday in Oakland to call attention to the injustice of the bail and pretrial detention system as part of...
Almost half of the injured scooter riders in Austin, Texas, identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its first-ever study of dockless electric...
A special celebration of Oakland’s African-American abstract expressionist artist Arthur Monroe runs through May 26th with a series of events at 54 Washington Street in Oakland’s...
Allensworth was a town founded, funded, built and governed by African Americans in the early 1900s. Colonel Allen Allensworth and some of his friends decided to purchase...
Bluffton is a village in Allen and Hancock counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 4,125 at the 2010 census. Bluffton is home...
Some autistic individuals who possess extraordinary skills are called “savants.” Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins was an African-American autistic savant musical prodigy who mastered the piano. With...
Led by their mentor Asatu Musunama Hall, the members of Youth Empowered Wombmyn Achieving Self, Rites of Passage Program and Sisters of Tomorrow, honored 14 women...
