By Godfrey Lee Valencia Burton Horton, a real estate agent and broker living and working in Oakland, recently gave a reading on her book “Buddha International...
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Black Women Organized for Political Action PAC (BWOPA-PAC), California Black Women’s Collective PAC and Black women leaders throughout the state are calling...
By Richard Johnson The need to exercise the right to vote was and still is a long battle that has cost precious lives at every turn...
By Roohee Marshall Upon meeting Mr. Wilfred Ussery, the former national Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality who had gained the reputation of being an...
By Ben Jealous Right before our last national elections in 2020, thousands of Black voters in Detroit got a call from someone posing as a woman...
By Post Staff The Oakland Chaplaincy Program founded by Pastor Phyllis Scott, President of the Pastors of Oakland graduated 13 more chaplains on Oct. 8, with...
The Department of Education reported that the typical undergraduate student with loans graduates with nearly $25,000 in debt. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National...
Honors Region’s Most Influential Women Across Industries SAN FRANCISCO – Mother Jones’ Chief Operating Officer Jahna Berry will be recognized Oct. 13 as one of the...
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media LOS ANGELES – The nine member California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans convened...
Dr. Chris Jones, former head of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, a nonprofit organization based in North Little Rock, is running for governor of the state...
By Keith Burbank, Bay City News Eleanor Ramsey, president and CEO of the firm Mason Tillman Associates, has been creating change for Black people and other...
Mary Agnes English Sparrow was born in Beaumont, Texas, April 3, 1920. She graduated from Prairie View College, in Prairie View, Texas with a degree in...
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 Godfrey Lee The life of the late Mrs. Elberta Julia Eriksson, BCD, MFT, LCSW was honored at the Marin City Senior Center in Marin City...
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...
By Ben Jealous Truth is a threat to authoritarianism. Reading is a path to truth. That’s why the freedom to read is essential to the freedom...
By Tamara Shiloh It was the spring of 1964. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were preparing to launch a campaign...
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media A series of community Listening Sessions are being held statewide to help the nine members of the California Task...
By Post Staff This fall, Holy Names University (HNU) will award full-tuition scholarships to 20 Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) teachers who have demonstrated a commitment...
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget trailer bill approving $5 million in funding to the California State...
Solomon O. Smith | California Black Media For the first time in history, a Black woman, Sedalia Sanders, was honored by the League of California Cities...
By Pastor Alvin Bernstine The Reverend Marvin Webb represented the best of Richmond. He, in fact, embodied the best of Richmond and that’s how he showed...
By Emil Guillermo Tennis, anyone? In my Mission District neighborhood growing up, we had courts. But us kids always chose the adjoining basketball court. And in...
By Manny Otiko, California Black Media After Brandon N. Smith was imprisoned for the ninth time, he found himself at a crossroads. That’s when he learned...
By Aldon Thomas Stiles, California Black Media Nationwide, book banning is on the rise. It’s reached a 20-year high, according to the American Library Association and...
