Oakland Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan is proposing a resolution to help improve safety for young people by allocating more funding for school crossing guards. “To encourage our...
The Oakland International Film Festival will be held next week, Tuesday, April 3 through Saturday, April 7, featuring 65 films over the five-day period. This year’s main...
Black Americans have twice as much unemployment as white workers. You can see one of the causes if you walk by any construction site and count...
NAACP celebrates phenomenal women of the community at the African American Museum and Library of Oakland. Front row, from left to right: Allie Whitehurst, Chairperson; Honorees:...
By Desley Brooks | District 6 Councilwoman Construction is booming in Oakland. From almost anywhere in the city you can see cranes, building materials stacked near...
Students and supporters celebrated before the group left for their10-day study trip. Photo By Ken Epstein. More than two dozen students from McClymonds High and other...
More than 1,100 students in grades 6-12 and their families gathered in Christ the Light Cathedral in Oakland for the 18th Annual Latinx Student Honor Roll...
ACE Home Health Care & Hospice partner Deacon Harold Goodman. Photo by Sue Taylor. “Presentation without demonstration is only conversation,” says Rev. Olu Bereola as he...
By Jonah Strauss, Homeless Advocacy Working Group In the rapidly-developing architecture of homeless support in Oakland, there are two missing building blocks: a large and sustainable...
A group of nine young leaders from East Bay schools, organized and led by Regina Jackson of East Oakland Youth Development Center (EOYDC), will participate in...
Members and supporters attend March 8 meeting of Interfaith Council of Alameda County (ICAC). Rev. Ken Chambers is shown at bottom, second from right. The City...
Registered nurse Monica Ramos of West Oakland holds a sign at a rally on March 20 outside of the OPD calling for the arrest of BART...
Faithfully, every Monday afternoon, hundreds of Oakland’s growing homeless population and needy families that live on the streets or under freeway overpasses , are served nutritious...
Businessman Virtual Murrell talks with the Honorable Willie Brown at the Niagara Movement Democratic Club’s 45th Anniversary at Geoffrey’s Inner Circle in Oakland. Photo by Carla...
In a couple of weeks, Culture Keepers, a cultural exchange program will take 28 Oakland students to Johannesburg, South Africa to participate in “The South Africa...
High school students at OUSD headquarters participate in “Changing the Narrative: A Dialogue With Oakland Youth and Black Techies” prior to attending a Black Panther screening...
Oakland residents and others demonstrate March 7 when Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke in Sacrament. Protesters said: “Sessions go home. We won’t be bullied.” Photo courtesy...
Safe Passages CEO Josefina Alvarado-Mena. By Katie Bazyluk Safe Passages, an Oakland-based nonprofit, is doubling its efforts to serve immigrant families in light of the federal administration’s recent...
Oakland Firefighters Union Local 55 has endorsed Desley Brooks in her re-election to the Oakland City Council District 6 seat. The fire department’s Field Operations Bureau...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (left)and Anita Hill. Photo by Sarah Carpenter. About 2,000 people filled the Oakland Marriott Ballroom last Saturday to hear Anita Hill speak about...
Supporters of the Affordable Housing Act, an initiative for the November ballot, rallied last Saturday in East Oakland. Photo By Ken Epstein. Affordable housing supporters held...
Mayor Libby Schaaf declined to recommend reappointment of Rebecca Kaplan to the position Oakland residents lost the only representative they have had in over two decades on...
Political opposition to charter schools has been growing, both locally and nationally. A recent report produced by a pro-charter school policy organization says that the continued...
City Attorney Barbara Parker has announced that she filed suit against Santos Engineering in West Oakland for illegal recycling activity in response to concerns cited by...
By Desley Brooks Thank you to the editors at the Post for allowing me to shed some insight into what it takes to push through the...
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