Nearly 800 faith leaders, victims of police misconduct, family members of people killed by law enforcement, and other community members staged a sit-in outside of Governor...
A landmark victory this week to reduce long-term solitary confinement in California will immediately release up to 2,000 prisoners who have been held in isolation...
Nearly 40 East Bay residents packed Emeryville City Council this week demanding that city officials urge the Alameda County coroner’s office to release the autopsy...
Activists from Chicago have been on a hunger strike for more than two weeks to save Chicago’s Dyett High School, which has been closed. ...
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, Mara Jacqueline Willaford and two other members of Seattle’s Black Lives Matter chapter captured...
Local residents are raising concerns about “meeting procedures” and “meeting norms” dictating the behavior of the Oakland Board of Education, which could limit board members’ ability...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee has announced that the City of Oakland will receive a $16,470,400 federal grant to support Head Start and Early Head Start Programs....
A settlement was reached yesterday in Ashker v. Governor of California, a federal class action lawsuit that challenged California’s use of long-term solitary confinement. The result,...
“King Hedley II,” as presented by the Lower Bottom Playaz, is a must-see to understand the many social problems and generational barriers that play a part...
Nicky Woolf – The Guardian A Baltimore judge on Wednesday denied a raft of motions aimed at removing state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby from a case...
