It was a sleepy South Carolina Saturday in mid-February. But Virginia Sanders was speaking, and the audience was rapt. “One might not have the power. But...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Because of the work of Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the Evers' house at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, will now become...
For Ph.D. candidate Malika Imhotep, devotion to black studies is a life practice. She grew up in West Atlanta, rooted in a community that she calls...
It almost goes without saying that prayer is important to people of African descent wherever they are in the diaspora. Araba Ifáyemí Elébuìbon, visiting Oakland from...
Members of the Oscar Grant family, Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson and Beatrice “Aunt B X” Johnson went to Sacramento Monday to speak in the wake of...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and NID Housing Counseling Agency (NID) entered into a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the...
Victor McElhaney, 21, was shot and killed in Los Angeles on March 10, 2019. His mother, District 3 Oakland City Councilmember Lynette McElhaney, released the following...
Nine months before Rosa Parks’ historic act of civil disobedience on a Montgomery, Ala. bus, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin also refused to give up her seat. Claudette...
The following is an open letter to Oakland Police Department Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, Mayor Libby Schaaf, and City Administrator Sabrina Landreth. The Oakland Black Officers Association...
Two OUSD Women’s Basketball Teams Take Home State Championships – Oakland Tech Bulldogs and Oakland High Wildcats It had been more than a decade since any Oakland...
