By Pastor Phyllis Scott Special to The Post It was like any other Monday. I would, like many Oaklanders, get up, have my coffee and prepare...
By Millie Cleveland In 2018, after Oakland police officers, guns, and cruisers amassed to respond to a “dark-skinned” homeless man asleep with a gun nearby, Joshua...
By Emil Guillermo “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation,” begins Martin Luther King Jr.’s...
By Kathy Chouteau | Richmond Standard Richmond Promise teamed up with Tech Exchange to host a laptop distribution event for college-bound scholars at the Richmond Main Public Library...
Hate Crimes Are Domestic Terrorism By Honorable Sandré R. Swanson The premeditated killings of three innocent, non-suspecting, African American citizens in Jacksonville, Fla., last Saturday was...
By Ken Epstein Several lifelong NAACP members, including Black Business Round Table host Doug Blacksher and civil rights attorney Walter Riley, held a press conference this...
By Tanya Dennis Part 2 Rise East is a $100 million privately funded initiative that will rebuild Black neighborhoods in a 40×40 block area is East...
By Richard Johnson Under the warm rays of the sun, Stanley “Mista” Cox orchestrated his annual back-to-school backpack giveaway at the 44th and Linden Park in...
Rise East is a $100 million privately funded initiative that will rebuild Black neighborhoods in a 40 x 40 block area of East Oakland over 10...
The Richmond Standard The local food bank’s bi-monthly distributions at Richmond Civic Center will transition from drive-up to walk-up services starting on Oct. 12. The final...
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By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the “Ebony Alert” bill to help locate missing Black youth and Black women in...
Race, Israel, and the U.S. By Kitty Kelly Epstein | Special to The Post The world watches while Palestinians and Israelis struggle, and now Israel prevents...
Adapted from the New York Times Everybody has an opinion. For some individuals and institutions, like colleges and universities, the question becomes whether or not those...
By Solomon O. Smith | California Black Media The California Latino Legislative Caucus (CLLC) celebrated its 50th anniversary with a black-tie event at the Orpheum Theatre...
By Antonio Ray Harvey, Lila Brown and Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media California State University student workers announced on Oct. 4 that the...
By Antonio Ray Harvey, Lila Brown and Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media On Oct. 7, Gov. Newsom’s office announced that he has signed...
By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA Newswire Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last three survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 102 on...
By Katy St. Clair | Bay City News California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed multiple housing bills aimed at tackling the state’s lack of affordable...
By Conway Jones Wilfred Tibbs Ussery celebrated his 95th birthday with his family and friends on Oct. 8 at Geoffrey’s Inner Circle in Oakland. Dr. Paul...
By Chuck Baker | 100 Black Men Cardiovascular health, or “Heart Health,” is important for everyone, but for African Americans, it’s a matter of life or...
By Post Staff Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price is opposing petitions filed by two men who were convicted of multiple murders, including the killing of...
By Family Support Advocates Special to The Post Desiree Davis was only 17 years old when she was senselessly murdered in North Oakland 14 years ago...
Part 4 By Tanya Dennis Roots are deep in Deep East Oakland. The Roots Community Health Center was founded in 1998 in Deep East Oakland at...
Special to the Post Mrs. Mildred Aristide, former first lady of Haiti, will speak in Oakland on Saturday, Oct. 21 The event, sponsored by the Haiti Action Committee,...
