We Will Not Incarcerate Our Way Out of This

People Are Liberating Public Spaces to Fight the Criminalization of Poverty By Cat Brooks How many times have you walked by an unhoused neighbor and told...

COMMENATY: Integrity Matters. Honesty Matters at Oakland City Hall

By Treva Reid In my short tenure as a councilmember, I can tell you that integrity and honesty are missing at City Hall. As your next...

Training Youth on How-2 End Hostilities

By Richard Johnson The idea of How-2 end violence has its origin in the bowels of prison. The idea was the result of the principled thinking of those...

San Bernardino County Voting to Leave California; Establish 51st State

Manny Otiko | California Black Media On Nov. 8, San Bernardino County voters will be presented with a choice on their ballot — leave the state of...

OPINION: Law enforcement is what we do to people. Public safety is what we do with people.

By Gregory Hodge As a mayoral candidate, I want to see Department of Violence Prevention’s (DVP) current budget of $28M doubled to $56M. That would allow...

Supes ‘Excited’ About Proposed Workforce Housing For Teachers, County Employees

By Katy St. Clair, Bay City News Foundation The perennial issue of affordable housing in Marin County went before the Board of Supervisors on Sept. 13...

Learn about Changes Coming for November Election

Sept. 29 online workshop to explain Marin’s new vote center model Courtesy of Marin County The Marin County Elections Department will host a virtual public workshop...

Jurors Who Take Public Transit Can Now Be Reimbursed Following Bill Signing

By Thomas Hughes, BCN Foundation A bill to allow California jurors to be reimbursed for using public transportation was signed into law Sept. 15 by Gov....

COMMENTARY: Have We Grown Numb to the Sound of Gunfire?

By Rev Phyllis Scott, President of the Pastors of Oakland Last week, as the Pastors of Oakland and the NAACP held a prayer vigil seeking proactive...

Gov Newsom Signs Several Bills to ‘Strengthen’ Cannabis Laws

By Bay City News Governor Gavin Newsom on Sept. 18, signed several measures that he says will strengthen the state’s cannabis laws, expand the legal cannabis...

OP-ED: Interfaith Faith Council of Alameda County Laments Gun Violence in Oakland

By Rev. Jim Hopkins, ICAC Co-Founding Board Member and Rev. Ken Chambers, ICAC Founding President The headline in the September 20, 2022, East Bay Times read,...

Fighting an Unjust System, The Bail Project Helps People Get Out of Jail and Reunites Families

Hundreds of thousands of individuals locked up in jails almost daily — many find it challenging to pay bail By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior...

IN MEMORIAM: Honoring Henry Fuhrmann, Self-described “Hyphen Killer.”

By Emil Guillermo Are you African American? Or African-American? Filipino American? Or a Filipino-American? Asian American? Or Asian-American? What’s the difference? That line between words. You...

COMMENTARY: City Councilmember Thao Announces $2 Million Investment to Revitalize Parks in East Oakland

By Sheng Thao, Oakland City Council President Pro Tempore On Tuesday I had the pleasure of joining Assemblymember Mia Bonta, Pastor Billy Dixon Jr., and community...

California Cities are Pilot Testing Guaranteed Basic Income Programs

Manny Otiko | California Black Media Guaranteed basic income isn’t a new idea. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr talked about the idea of low-income people receiving...

Cal Black Chamber of Commerce’s Biz Summit 2022 Offers Opportunities to Bid on Contracts

Antonio‌ ‌Ray‌ ‌Harvey‌ ‌|‌ ‌California‌ ‌Black‌ ‌Media‌ The California Black Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc. (CALBCCF) is offering “game-changing opportunities” for mini micro, micro, and small...

Barbara Lee Hails Pres. Biden’s Pledge of $6 Billion to Battle AIDS, TB and Malaria

By Sean Ryan Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) applauded the Biden Administration’s announcement on Wednesday of $6 billion in new funding for the Global Fund at the...

Oakland Parents Join Statewide Coalition to Protest State-Imposed School Closings

Protesters shut down meeting of Gov. Newsom’s state-funded nonprofit agency By Ken Epstein Parent Voices Oakland and other Oakland community groups this week joined with parents...

PRESS ROOM: EPA Administrator Regan to Join Leaders of Civil Rights, Environmental Justice Movement for Significant Announcement in Warren County, North Carolina

NNPA NEWSWIRE — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan will be joined by significant figures from the civil rights and environmental justice movements,...

September 26 | Governance at the Local Level | The Conversation with Al McFarlane

Congressman Al Green Holds National Slavery Remembrance Day with Rev. Al Sharpton as Guest Speaker

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Maintaining an accurate account of our history, and history in general, is essential for the present as well as for posterity, as it...

Black Millennial and Gen-Z Voters Chime in On Issues Important to Them Leading Up to the November Midterm Elections

NNPA NEWSWIRE ±— The 2022 midterm elections will definitely cast a major light on the future of this country, and with recent decisions surrounding education, healthcare,...

Minneapolis Northside Urban Coalition September Meeting

September 23 | The Conversation with Al McFarlane – The Healing Circle

September 22 | Conversaciones Con Carmen – Featuring Al McFarlane