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...