By Barbara Parker, Oakland City Attorney Once again, all of us are trying to process news of yet another mass shooting, this time in Roseburg,...
Newly revealed data confirms activists’ longtime charge that Berkeley Police racially profile Berkeley’s declining African American population. Berkeley Police disproportionate stop and search Blacks and...
The African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) is holding two grand openings and a forum celebrating Black community self-determination. APEDF is finishing the renovations...
By Sarah Yang, UC News UC Berkeley is leading a $12.3 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to examine the role of...
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan this week announced plans to dramatically reduce incarceration for nonviolent offenses and announced efforts to reform school discipline policies and the...
Courtesy of Richmond Standard The community is rallying in support of a beloved veteran teacher at Richmond High who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer....
Pope Francis has departed, but his words and his presence linger. He had an electric effect on those who saw him or heard his words....
Reeling on the huge success of her single “3xKrazy” this past year, songstress Netta Brielle has released a new project in which she shares her deepest...
By Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root Texas mom Roni Dean-Burren took to YouTube recently to call out book publishing giant McGraw-Hill after she opened...
Courtesy of the L.A. Philharmonic At the age of 70, with more than a half-century of innovation behind him, Chucho Valdés would be forgiven if...