By Post Staff An out-of-town developer is trying to build a 40-story high-rise in the middle of Oakland’s Black Movement Arts and Business District against strong...
By Paul Cobb As the publisher of the Oakland Post, I am disappointed with recent mainstream media coverage and editorials trying to make tabloid news out...
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...
By Gregory Hodge Housing is a human right. In the wealthiest region in the wealthiest country, our shortcoming is obvious to anyone who has taken just...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — Le Ondra Clark-Harvey, Executive Director of the California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies, explained that call centers have 98% effectiveness in...
By Edward Henderson, California Black Media As the ink dries on the California state budget recently signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, many special interest organizations are...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The study published by the Washington, D.C.-based Violence Policy Center, revealed that in 2019, the United States recorded 7,441 Black homicide victims. African...
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media Black women running for political office on every level across the state of California showed up strong during the...
By Zack Haber A recent closure of a homeless encampment near the intersection of MacArthur Boulevard and 106th Avenue has prompted Homies Empowerment, an East Oakland-based...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), 298,000 girls went missing in 2019 in the United States. The center...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In addition to working on some of the most high-profile cases in the U.S., representing the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — CNN reported that Black women in the United States are more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than any other demographic –...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Not only does obesity impact 1-in-3 Americans, it also takes a disproportionate toll on communities of color since almost half of Black Americans...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Many residents in DC share the conviction that we must do far more to lend a hand to the thousands of individuals —...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Our families often live in households without food or water at times and now we have this pandemic. Some families rely routinely on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — When we decided to establish our new headquarters as a living building and began to explore what it takes to do so, we...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “One of the key pillars of a democratic society is the freedom to stand up and speak out, and we fully support the...
