‘Against All Odds’ Film Showing at Marin City Library on April 18

By Godfrey Lee The Marin City Library, located on 164 Donahue St., will show the film “Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class”...

VP Harris Unveils $1 Billion African Investment During Historic Continent Visit

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Vice President Kamala Harris’ historic trip to Africa continued with the launch of global initiatives on...

Food Insecurity, Hunger Expected to Soar After Cuts to Extra SNAP Benefits

By Barrington M. Salmon NNPA Newswire Food security advocates, policymakers, and others had been warning of the dire consequences to those most in need if Congress...

14th Annual Powerful Women of the Bay Luncheon

By Carla Thomas The 14th Annual Powerful Woman of the Bay Luncheon was held at Scott’s Pavilion in Jack London Square on March 30. The event...

Barbara Lee’s Former Staffer Expelled from Tennessee Legislature

By Post Staff Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who’s also running for the United States Senate seat presently held by Dianne Feinstein, blasted the Tennessee House Republicans...

OP-ED: The Tennessee Three: A Page Out of the Playbook of History

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Representatives Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), Justin Jones (D-Nashville), and Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville) took to the Tennessee House floor to stand in solidarity with school...

CALMATTERS: California May Change Its Mental Health Funding: Why That Might Cut Some Services

By Kristen Hwang CalMatters For the second time in as many years, Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing for major reform of California’s mental health system, this...

With Women Imprisonment Rising, Black Females Still Feel the Brunt of America’s Mass Incarceration

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Three years ago, the National Black Women’s Justice Institute partnered with the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and The Sentencing Project...

State legislatures ignore the will of the people. The Tennessee Three.

Mass Shooting at Louisville Bank Heightens Gun Control Issue

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The shooter, who police believe had a connection to the bank, is dead, and authorities are working to establish the motive behind the...

Republicans Feeling Heat in Tennessee as Councils Poised to Re-Seat Ousted Legislators

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The expulsion of the two Democrats, who vociferously called on their colleagues to act on gun control after the latest school shooting in...

Kamala Harris Leads Tennessee Rally, Backs Ousted Lawmakers

LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Harris received wild applause and several standing ovations as she told a crowd at Nashville’s historically Black Fisk University that the so-called...

Reparations: Experts Compute Hundreds of Billions Owed to Black Californians

By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media Economists advising The California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans have developed economic formulas...

Officials, Community Show Up to Celebrate Distinguished Honorees for the 14th Annual Powerful Women of the Bay Awards Luncheon

In Celebration of Women’s History Month The 14th Annual Powerful Women of the Bay Awards Luncheon in recognition of Women’s History Month was held on March...

The Struggle Dr. King Gave His Life For

By Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com) – This week in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated leading a bold effort to teach America an urgent...

Hundreds Still in Emergency Shelters as State Waits on Federal Storm Disaster Declaration Request

By Eli Walsh Bay City News More than 300 residents in Santa Cruz County remained in emergency shelters on Monday due to recent storm damage as...

Federal Judge Refuses to Suspend Injunction Against Encampment Sweeps

By Joe Dworetzky Bay City News Citing a misguided legal maneuver by city attorneys, a federal magistrate judge late Monday denied a motion by the city...

‘Extremely Disturbing’: City Audit Reveals Mayor’s Office of Housing Has $482 Mil in Unspent Funds

By Olivia Wynkoop Bay City News A San Francisco supervisor is calling for a hearing to find solutions to problems within the city’s affordable housing production...

Nashville Residents Protest Gun Violence; 3 Democratic Lawmakers Faced with Expulsion

ATLANTA TRIBUNE — GOP lawmakers filed three resolutions Monday, one each seeking the expulsion of Reps. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, Justin Jones of Nashville and Justin...

Rep. Pearson and ‘Tennessee Three’ Drawing Support

TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — Deidre Malone, president of the National Women’s Political Caucus Tennessee, noted that Johnson is the group’s past president. “These three advocated for gun...

Kareem Jabbar Brings Books to Oakland and Tech Champs

Oakland Tech’s Girls Basketball team and the Oakland High Boys team received major support and recognition for being on top of California’s High School sports world...

Chris Rock. Justice Department and Breonna Taylor case.

S. F. NAACP Clarifies Statement on $5M Payouts: Reparations Should Be Cash Payments, Plus ‘Investments’

By Antonio Ray Harvey and Manny Otiko, California Black Media The San Francisco Branch of the NAACP is engaged in a public information blitz to clarify...

S. F. NAACP Clarifies Statement on $5M Payouts: Reparations Should Be Cash Payments, Plus ‘Investments’

By Antonio Ray Harvey and Manny Otiko, California Black Media The San Francisco Branch of the NAACP is engaged in a public information blitz to clarify...

Commentary: Affirmative Action’s Death Knell Now Loud and Clear

By Emil Guillermo Was the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg — the man who could make history as the first prosecutor to indict a former president —...