“David Johnson: In the Zone (1945-1965),” is an exhibition that is being displayed through January 6, 2023, at San Francisco City Hall. It will feature 65...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Throughout the years, the AFRO has been a leading voice in the Black community, serving as a reliable source of news and information...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — William Felton Russell was born on Feb. 12, 1934, in Monroe, La., and his family moved to West Oakland in 1942 when he was...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The story of the abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is familiar, as is the civil rights revolution that...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Clinical psychologist Dr. Brenda Wall said having to see media reports of horrendous devastation in Ukraine dredges up thoughts about similar violence to...
California’s AB 3121, signed into law in 2020, created the nine-member task force to investigate the history and costs of slavery in California and around the...
Congressman Norman Y. Mineta will forever be known as the man who got justice for the people incarcerated by the Japanese internment during World War II....
Gladys Green married her high school sweetheart George Green when he returned from World War II. The couple moved to Oakland in 1946 to escape the...
Probably not “mass killing,” of an estimated 1 million like Pol Pot in Cambodia in the 1970s. But considering China’s restrictions on Uyghurs having children, and...
Last year, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Los Angeles) wrote and introduced Assembly Bill (AB) 1007 that proposed the program and served as the basis for funding the...
According to a 2009 California Senate Joint Resolution (SJR-21), authored by former state Sen. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood), on the night of July 17, 1944, two transport...
The event will happen on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021, from noon to 3:00 p.m. at the Marin Gateway Shopping Center, 109 Donahue St., Marin City, CA....
Wenefrett ‘Wene’ Cecelia Phillips Watson became active in the Oakland Public Schools where her children attended school. She was appointed to the Oakland Museum Commission and...
The revitalization of Esther’s, and EB PREC’s mission, has a deep personal connection for Session, EB PREC’s executive director and a Black, third generation West Oaklander...
“Black homeowners in predominantly White neighborhoods are getting their homes appraised for far less than their neighbors,” Holden said. “It’s just another example of how bias,...
During its third meeting, California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans looked at reasons formerly enslaved Black people migrated to the...
Tribute to storyteller and park ranger Betty Reid Soskin marking her 100th birthday
Lucille Alicia Sharpe was born on April 22, 1921, in Hope Hull, a community outside Montgomery.
Regions in the southern, northern, and central part of the state (where many Black farmers reside) should be involved in the process, said Grills. The “listening...
A huge fan of the L.A. Dodgers, Turner was invited to try out for the Dodgers Minor System in the early 1950s and the ambidextrous Turner...
Assembly Bill (AB) 3121 moves descendants of enslaved Americans one step closer to getting restitution for centuries of free labor and legal discrimination that followed it,...
The East Bay Regional Park District Board of Directors is searching for a new name for the Park District’s 2,540 acre Concord Hills Regional Park that...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Clyburn noted that healthcare and other fraud has run rampant during the current novel coronavirus pandemic and, more than ever, African Americans are...
Of the atrocities in Germany during and after World War II, one caused by the U.S. occupation went largely underreported: thousands of children were born to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — I remember quoting Mama’s explanation of how she got the endearing title, though she had no children of her own. She had said:...