In past years, the Bay Area Rescue Mission has provided hundreds of homeless and near homeless people with a traditional Thanksgiving meal complete with all the...
Paul Robeson. Muhammad Ali. Bill Russell. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Jim Brown. Curt Flood. Hank Aaron. The “Black 14” at the University of Wyoming. The St. Louis Rams....
By Katy Reckdahl, the Advocate Mwalimu Johnson, a prison-reform advocate and a sought-after counselor to thousands of fellow inmates, died last Tuesday of kidney failure...
The City of San Francisco has launched a new Family Homelessness Initiative to ensure that families with elementary school children never have to spend a night...
Courtesy of the Richmond Standard Richmond Chief of Police Chris Magnus has accepted an offer to lead the police force of the City of Tucson....
Mary V. King, an Oakland native who was the first African American on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and served as AC Transit general manager,...
A number of housing rights activists are calling on...
There is near universal agreement that Oakland is in a housing crisis and that action must be taken quickly to prevent the town from being San...
By Pete Farley, UCSF News A chemical that could potentially be used in eye drops to reverse cataracts, the leading cause of blindness, has been...
Isaac Kos-Read, chief of Communications and Public Affairs for the Oakland Unified School District, recently signed a $192,000-a-year-contract, extending his previous contract for two years. ...
