In a time when many pre-teen antics are uploaded to TikTok and Instagram, a video out of Vallejo shared on social media last year holds something...
Local elections are February 28 in Chicago, the third-largest city in the country with a nearly 30% Black population. The city’s South and West sides, once...
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao held a press conference this week with acting Police Chief Darren Allison and small business leaders to announce new and strengthened public...
"To wake up on the first day of Black History Month to news of white men in positions of privilege horse trading essential and inextricably linked...
The Department of Education said it is working to create new programs or expand existing community schools. “Meeting the needs of the whole child is essential...
“We’re offering scholarships for anyone who wants to become a teacher. $20,000,” State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) Tony Thurmond told California Black Media. “I sponsored...
Conservatives have attacked the debt forgiveness plan as expensive overreach of executive authority since the plan was announced. In this case, the six states argued that the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In August, Congress repealed section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which provided funding and authorization for the federal government...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The EPA created the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights Office by merging three existing programs at the agency – the...
We believe the solution rests with past proven results; not merely wishful thinking that has proven to be quite ineffective in addressing the violence that is...
“Twenty years after we established the initial framework for the Global Fund, it has become a powerful force for change within the global health infrastructure, saving...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Administration officials said in less than ten days following FDA’s EUA on intradermal administration, some of the country’s largest counties have transitioned completely...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “President Biden believes that a post-high school education should be a ticket to a middle-class life, but for too many, the cost of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — It includes strengthening critical provisions of the Affordable Care Act, providing Medicare with authority to negotiate certain prescription drug costs, and administration officials...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The president noted that shortly after the enactment of Texas law S.B. 8 and other laws restricting women’s reproductive rights, he directed his...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The budget contains about $1 billion in additional assistance for Ukraine and $6.9 billion for the European Defense Initiative, NATO, and countering Russian...
Councilmember At-Large and Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan stated, “It is essential to end all acts of discrimination by this administration – and these allegations of misconduct...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — On March 16, in a small auditorium at the Old Executive Office Building next door to The White House, Vice President Kamala Harris,...
How this spending was prioritized remains unclear, since community input was promised but bypassed. The name itself is somewhat misleading. The word “TOWN” in Town for...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — It’s unfair to take up spaces that should be for people at the lake and give them to folks from Alameda. I’ve called...
Having a strong contingent of Black women judges on these courts means the lived experience they bring — in addition to their stellar legal credentials —...
This struggle is not over, and the work must continue, as today the Black unemployment rate continues to far exceed the white unemployment rate in America....
The Dec. 22 action is one in a series of steps the Biden-Harris Administration has taken to support students and borrowers, make higher education more affordable,...
Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13) joined Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01) and other progressive colleagues in calling on President Biden to live up to his campaign promises...
Oakland city government declares war on the unemployed. An overstatement? Not really.