Nine years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat from the fifth row on a City of Montgomery segregated public bus, Montgomery’s Women’s...
The Educational Coalition for Hispanics in Oakland (ECHO) and The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) on Saturday, April 15 will honor over 3,000 Latino students who...
Over 50 people East Bay residents canvassed the streets around Telegraph Avenue from Uptown to Temescal last Sunday in Oakland on Sunday, giving posters to...
The East Bay Economic Development Alliance (East Bay EDA) has announced the winners of the 5th Annual “East Bay Innovation Awards” of foremost examples of...
Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan submitted a resolution proposing for Oakland to not do business with financial institutions that have direct investments in the Dakota Access Pipeline...
About 1,000 supporters of “Day Without a Woman,” International Women´s Day rallied Wednesday afternoon at Oakland City Hall. Photo by Ken Epstein Thousands of Bay Area...
Do you have a basic legal question but couldn’t find anyone who could provide an answer? Do you need to talk to an experienced attorney? Do...
MobilizeGreen, a nonprofit that seeks to help young people find careers in the green economy, held a job fair last Friday at Oakland City Hall, co-hosted...
By Hannah Lukanuski My first day of teaching fourth grade was two years ago and it was a whirlwind of energetic joy and panicked mistakes. Luckily,...
The 24th Annual Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame Luncheon and Awards Ceremony will be held April 1 in Pleasanton. Twelve local women representing the region’s...
Shola Adisa-Farrar returned home to debut her new CD, “Lost Myself” last month and once again this week. The two gigs were sold out at...
By Green the Church Booker T. Washington (April 5, 1856-November 14, 1915) founded Tuskegee University in the state of Alabama on July 4, 1881. In the controversial “Atlanta Compromise” he called...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a senior member of the House Budget Committee, released a statement this week slamming President Trump’s government spending outline as a “morally bankrupt...
By Ashley Nash Center for Elders’ Independence (CEI) participant Anthony Fleming joined staff and seniors recently at the center’s Josie Barrows Center for a Black...
The Art Of Living Black, a well established Bay Area Black Artist’s Exhibition and Self-Guided Art Tour, is hosting open studios at several locations in the...
Sister Makinya Sibeko-Kouate, a popularize of Kwanzaa, educator and radio host, died on Feb. 4 at the age of 90. Born on July 1 to Turner...
Faith leaders and community leaders are coming forward to express the solidarity of Jews, Muslims and Christians – in Oakland and across the nation – in...
Students at Coliseum College Prep Academy, a public high school in East Oakland, celebrated Black History Month last Friday by putting an assembly for the entire...
By Carroll Fife, Oakland Justice Coalition March 7 could be a record day for Oaklanders. That is the day that the Oakland Council will vote...
Maybelle Louise Broussard, a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority for 84 years, died on Feb. 9. She was 102. Mrs. Broussard was born March...
Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) introduced AB 918, the ‘California Voting for All Act,’ which would be the first of its kind in the country to provide...
The Oakland City Council this week unanimously passed a Resolution urging the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) to divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)....
By Brandon Aninipot This past Sunday, a few of MACK’s State Championship football players, cheerleaders, and other students from the OUSD Alternatives in Action Program...
Bobby Seale, who co-founded the original Black Panther Party 50 years ago, is scheduled to take part in two Black History Month events in Richmond next week,...
The Greenlining Institute’s new building provides space to several community organizations Last Friday, The Greenlining Institute hosted a grand opening event at its newly renovated building...
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