Amendments will increase funds for public safety, fire services, housing, cultural affairs, and park upkeep By Post Staff Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas, joined by members...
By Ken Epstein In the wake of a national search, the Oakland Police Commission has hired Mac Muir to become the new executive director of the Civilian...
By Y’Anad Burrell As Father’s Day is upon us, three Black clergymen have published a book of prayers that have worked for them as they navigated...
By Tamara Shiloh A memoir written by the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre has assured that her testimony before the U.S. Congress two years...
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media The California Reparations Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans will hold its last in-person meeting on...
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media Two bills aimed at equipping K-12 students with the ability to discern between accurate and false news — and...
By Godfrey Lee Arif Khatib and Pete Elman are promoting and selling their book “Remember Their Sacrifice – Stories of Unheralded Athletes of Color.” They hosted...
By Sean Ryan Representatives Barbara Lee (CA-12) and Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) on Tuesday introduced the “Moneyball Act,” legislation that would require the owners of any professional...
By Linda Parker Pennington On Tuesday, June 12, First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden, visited a packed and jubilant house at Manny’s, to support her husband’s presidential...
Thao seeks to boost crime reduction and hire a new chief. By Ken Epstein The City of Oakland’s leadership is seeking to beef up police presence...
By Chuck Finnie Celebrated annually on June 19, Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day and Freedom Day, is an observance of the effective end of slavery...
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of 250 years of legalized enslavement of Africans in the United States. Long before the federal government...
Berkeley’s 36th Annual Juneteenth Festival on Sunday June 18 commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Family entertainment is the focus of all Berkeley Juneteenth cultural...
By Ben Christopher CalMatters Late last fall, a Southern California developer dropped more than a dozen mammoth building proposals on the city of Santa Monica that...
By Black Information Network | Chicago Defender Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush has introduced a bill calling for $14 trillion in reparations for Black Americans to...
By Carla Thomas On Friday, June 2 Big Picture Lving Day will be celebrated with a series of virtual events designed to improve the life of...
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By Ken Epstein An outpouring of community supporters – young, old, jazz lovers, environmentalists and committed Oakland partisans – spoke out at a recent Planning Commission...
Join Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb to discuss the uptick in crime and violence in District 1 and across Oakland. Representatives from the Oakland Police Department...
By Kathy Chouteau | The Richmond Standard UniverSoul Circus kicked off its Bay Area run under the Big Top at Hilltop Mall last week with the performances...
By Emil Guillermo During the pandemic, I was in a group of Asian American storytellers based in the Bay Area on a weekly Zoom call when...
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By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia A new study shows that after some progress, the number of deaths and years of possible...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Nola Brantley of Nola Brantley Speaks states, “America’s wider culture and society has consistently failed to address the abduction and kidnapping of Black...
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