Blues pianist Katie Webster contributed to countless records by the likes of Slim Harpo, Lazy Lester and Lightnin’ Slim, and recorded some of her own featuring...
The Department of Labor this week announced that September marked the 67th consecutive month of private sector job growth, marking the continuation of the longest consecutive...
Oakland artist Antonio Ramos, 27, was shot and killed Tuesday while he was working on a mural under the 580 freeway in West Oakland. Police...
Francisco Herrera, a resident of San Francisco for almost 30 years who has worked with families from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds throughout the city as...
Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, playwright, composer and performer Lin-Manuel Miranda and community leader Juan Salgado are among 24 winners of the 2015 “genius” grants from the John...
Castlemont High School students celebrated Unity Day last week, attending workshops centered on the impacts of mass incarceration, gentrification, and racism on people of color in...
By Veronica Rocha, LA Times, and News Sources A video showing four Stockton police officers tackling a Black 16-year-old boy to the ground for allegedly...
Over one hundred people, most of them drummers, gathered in front of City Hall Monday evening to bring attention to what longtime Oaklanders feel...
On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve a new tenant protections legislation, dubbed as “Eviction Protections 2.0,” considered “one of...
Fouche’s Hudson Funeral Home, the oldest African American owned funeral home in the western region of the U.S., is celebrating 100 years. They have become...