Minister Willie Joe Hall was born on August 24,1938 in Miami, Fla., to Minister Joseph Seamon and Ola Mae Hall. He was called home to the...
On December 5, at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, the William + Flora Hewlett Foundation hosted a panel discussing High Performance: The State of the...
Emmit A. Powell, radio and television broadcaster, producer and founder of Emmit Powell Gospel Elites, died a few days short of his birthday celebration scheduled for...
The Paramount will be fully lit for a New Year’s Eve celebration with the 70’s Soul Jam, featuring The Stylistics, Chi-Lites featuring Marshall Thompson, William Hart’s...
Imagine going to the grocery store, picking up the items you need for the week, but not knowing how much anything costs until the store sends...
Warner “Country Pete” McGill Jr., lead singer and guitarist of the Cotton Fields Blues Band, died on Dec. 6, 2018, in San Ramon. He was 72....
Plan includes a focus on black-owned businesses and East Oakland Hiring The Oakland A’s have introduced their new ballpark plan for the Howard Terminal near Jack...
The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) school board has released the first draft of a proposal it calls the “Citywide Plan,” which would reduce the number...
With 2018 coming to a close, TechEquity Collaborative invited Senator Scott Wiener and newly elected Assemblymember Buffy Wicks to discuss their plans for housing policy in...
On Friday, Dec. 14, Oakland City Council convened a special meeting to certify and declare the passage of Measure AA, the Oakland Children’s Initiative, despite the...