Tenants’ rights advocates flood state capitol building, vow to take issue to ballot box A bill to repeal statewide restrictions on rent control is dead in...
From left to right: Anaya Nassor, Ayanfe Durham and Brenda Hudson. By Dirk Tillotson Where you send your child to school is one of the most important decisions you can make....
Mack football team wins two consecutive state championships The Oakland Unified School District is holding a parade through the city Friday, Jan. 19, 1 p.m., to...
By Wade W. Nobles, Ph.D Co-Founder The ABPsi, Professor Emeritus SFSU As many of you know, 50 years ago, a small group of professional Black psychologists and students...
Rev. Ben McBride (left) addresses the hundreds of people gathered at 14th and Broadway in Oakland on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 15. McBride’s...
Photo courtesy of Tenants Together. By Sarah Carpenter A bill to repeal statewide restrictions on rent control is dead in the water. The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing...
Cestra “Ces” Butner. Photo by Sara Sandhu. Oakland businessman and community leader, Cestra “Ces” Butner, pledged another $500,000 to East Bay College Fund in front of...
City staff, along with Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan (front left) and Abel Guillén, hosted a meeting Monday evening at City Hall to hear community feedback on proposed...
The school board of the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) voted Monday to give itself a raise despite their multi-million dollar budget deficit. Each of the...
By Carol McGruder, Co-Chair, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council Federally adjudicated racketeers (aka Big Tobacco) finally started their series of court-ordered apologies to the American...
