Staying true to his appeal for the olden days, former Vice President Joe Biden visited Downtown Oakland’s nostalgic Buttercup Diner on Super Tuesday while campaigning for...
A community meeting, co-hosted by the New McClymonds Committee and the McClymonds 100 Year Committee, is seeking answers about the closure and moving of students and...
Oakland’s Poor People’s Campaign teamed up with student and community volunteers to host a teach-in discussing voting, housing community, and education — all hot button issues...
So far, 37 people in California have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and about 8,700 people across the state, who may have been exposed to...
A collection of revered Vodou, Ifa and Kemetic Science practitioners will come together for a weeklong series of events in honor of the visit of Her...
Yanci Taylor celebrates his 96th birthday on February 24, 2020. He was born in a rural town of Lot, Texas, in 1924 to Yanci Taylor Sr....
The seemingly sudden firing of Oakland Police Dept. Chief Anne Kirkpatrick on Feb. 20, 2020, without a publicly stated reason initially left some Oaklanders wondering how...
The Oakland City Council accepted over $240 million state taxpayer dollars to support what it promised would be a transformative, generational project creating jobs, expediting commerce,...
Last Tuesday, Assemblymember Sandre Swanson hosted a Gun Violence Roundtable forum to present Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s work on gun violence prevention. Bloomberg, a democratic presidential candidate...
As a multi-generational Oaklander, former OUSD administrator, student and parent in Oakland’s private, traditional, and charter public schools – I am proud to have a 20-year...
Black Solidarity Week (BSW) is here and unlike inspirational quotes and memes found thru social media and on the internet, the concept is a living and...
More than a dozen unhoused Oakland residents and housing justice advocates gathered on the afternoon of Feb. 15 just west of Wood and 24th Streets to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to a March 2019 study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), more than 135,000 Black and Hispanics around the nation were...
Inspired by Moms 4 Housing mothers, District 2, Oakland councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas introduced the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) at the City Council’s rules...
A’s President Dave Kaval told the Post that he wants the upcoming February meeting, that was set by residents who have participated in the Community Benefits...
It is undeniable that the community’s sense of safety, wellbeing, and opportunity been historically marred by the actions of agents and agencies of Oakland’s City government....
Homeless moms who were forcibly evicted from a vacant Oakland house where they lived for two months without permission from the home’s corporate owner, announced on...
Moms 4 Housing advocacy group was evicted from a West Oakland home in the early hours of Tuesday Jan. 14 after judgment came in favor of...
Members of the City Council’s Community and Economic Development (CED) Committee this week unanimously adopted a proposed Fair Chance Housing Ordinance that would ban landlords from ...
In mid-December, Game Changer LLC, delivered eviction notices to and erected a fence around nine unhoused residents who live on a tract of land west of...
On Tuesday Dec. 4, workers for Security Contract Services installed a fence surrounding a community of unhoused residents who live in tents at Mosswood Park in...
Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration has plans on paper to help the homeless get off the streets. But in reality, the administration’s approach has been and remains...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — One relatively unsung product of Oakland’s liberal sway is the founder of the annual AfroComicCon, Michael James. Now in its third iteration, AfroComicCon...
A Model Built on Faith (AMBOF), the faith-based and nonprofit organization capacity-building program presented by OCCUR and the San Francisco Foundation FAITHS Program will celebrate their...
Presidential Candidate Senator Corey Booker made a small intimate campaign stop in Oakland last week. About 300 supporters waited patiently in the afternoon sun for the...
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