A diverse innovative group of youth has been selected to take part in VR Odyssey Spring Sessions, a grand leap CS / STEM program focused on...
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...
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...
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...
By Dirk Tillotson Many schools with strict discipline practice what they call a “no excuses” philosophy. The problem with many “no excuses” schools is that the...
Protester carrying a sign while marching in an anti-Trump rally in New York City in 2016. By Annie “Q” Sajid This past President’s Day, many anti-Trump rallies...
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor On the morning in the fall of 2015 when I heard about the argument and physical confrontation between former Black Panther chairperson...
By John Jones III50 years ago, Dr. King and our other social justice ancestors fought for African Americans to have equal rights and to claim the...
By Daktari Shari Renée Hicks, Psy.D. It is seldom directly recognized that rhythmic harmonious movement is the natural state of being. Evidence of this fact is...
From Africa in Transition, Blog Post by John Campbell Far from dissipating, African anger is building over President Donald Trump’s negative characterization of Africa on January 11. African leaders...
By Darin T. Wesley In Oakland, most electeds claim to play nice. But with whom? At whose expense? As rents skyrocket and affordable housing becomes a distant...
By Carol McGruder, Co-Chair, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council Federally adjudicated racketeers (aka Big Tobacco) finally started their series of court-ordered apologies to the American...
By Oakland Community Leaders There is a 13-to-1 racial wealth gap between the median White family and the median Black family in the U.S. You can...
By Jeremy Cloward, Ph.D. and Makenna McDonald In ancient Rome, Marcus Licinius Crassus was one of the richest men in Roman history and a member of...
By Jerome Horton Having sex with a person with the specific intent of infecting them with the HIV/AIDS virus is a felony punishable by imprisonment for...
By Anthony Rendon and Chris Holden Apparently, history makes some people uncomfortable. The facts make some people uncomfortable. Pressure from people with a limited grasp of...
By Alvina Wong After four months of organizing by Laney students, faculty, and staff, Chinatown and Eastlake residents, and Lake Merritt environmentalists, the Peralta Board of...
By Dirk Tillotson The meek will not inherit the earth in Oakland’s system of public school choice. Given the likelihood of school closings, they may inherit...
By Joshua Coello Do you ever imagine what kids from Oakland go through on a daily? Do you wonder if your house bills are paid? Well,...
By Diamond Raymond As we near the one-year since President Trump was inaugurated, I reflect on what resistance means to me. This year marked the first...
By Greg Dill If you have Medicare, you can protect your identity and help prevent health care fraud by guarding your Medicare card like you would...
On Sept. 13, the Oakland A’s announced their choice for a new baseball stadium with much pageantry. The A’s unveiled their desire to build a new...
In August, Uber announced that it’s probably not coming to Oakland after all and will likely put the former Sears building back on the market. Since...
By Dr. Yanira Cruz Hispanics are 50 percent more likely than whites to die from diabetes and liver disease. This gap could widen if lawmakers proceed...
By Elizabeth G. & Nathan N., members of OUSD Honor Band On September 25, 2017, most members of the Oakland Unified School District Honor Band knelt...
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