Congresswoman Barbara Lee has filed to run for re-election in California’s 13th Congressional District. She has represented the district since 1998 “I am proud to live...
Did you know that one pint of blood can save up to three lives? That is what Eileen Randle tells everyone she comes into contact with,...
Alexis Wise and the Wise Girls recently presented their first fashion show, “An Evening of Fashion Expressions” on Saturday, March 1. The show was a fundraiser...
Legend. All-around entertainer. Activist. Educator. Pioneer. From the hit cartoon turned movie sensation, “Fat Albert,” to the iconic and pathbreaking television sitcom, “The Cosby Show,” it...
From porters to postal carriers, teachers to truck drivers, Oakland is a city built by hardworking men and women who have fought – not only for...
The City of Oakland has awarded loans of over $7 million to five affordable housing development projects that will serve families and people with special needs,...
By Associated Press The son of legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson can keep profits from the only two known photographs of his father, the Mississippi Supreme...
Diallo Mwathi Jeffery’s exhibit “Views of Oakland” – on display at Oakland City Hall until Feb. 28 – has an uncanny ability to capture those intangible...
By Rev. Willie A. Douglas The unfolding drama of how Afro-Americans took the raw material of their lives and organized what has become their strongest institution...
Robert Duncan passed peacefully on Feb. 17. He was 97. Robert Lee Duncan III was born on June 9, 1916 in Louisville, Kentucky, the oldest of...
