Oakland City Council may decide July 5 whether to place measure on November ballot By Post Staff Oakland community leaders and activists, port workers and environmental...
By Brandon Patterson Last month, Oakland housing regulators announced that starting in July, landlords would be permitted to raise rents by up to 6.7% — the...
Special to The Post At the May 3 special meeting of the Oakland City Council, members approved a resolution introduced by Councilmember Carroll Fife directing 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 — Amid ongoing community outcry for police transparency and accountability, the updated contract with the Portland Police Association (PPA) includes employee recruitment and retention...
OAKLAND POST — “Releasing the final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) is a major milestone on our path to build a new waterfront ballpark district that will...
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP — Doris Topsy-Elvord's son Stephen Topsy said his mom’s legacy was greater in so many ways than the titles she earned at the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Civil Rights Lawyer Pamela Keith, an attorney at the Donald Temple Law Offices in Northwest Washington, D.C. and a former United States Navy...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We had a really strong group. The Hamilton County Democratic party picked a strong slate and we worked hard together, and we will...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Hundreds of years of Black blood spilled that fills the cup we drink from today,” said Councilman Keith Young, one of two African...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday approved an agreement between the city and Ensley District Developers, LLC to redevelop the historic Ramsay-McCormack building in...
OAKLAND POST — People across Oakland are reacting with shock and anger this week as news spreads that highly respected community elder Wilson Riles Jr. had...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — Developers are rapidly buying up properties along the Crenshaw corridor in anticipation of the completion of the Crenshaw LAX Rail Line that will carry...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The Los Angeles Board of Public Works today approved changes to a policy that would require people to obtain permits for planters, railings,...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — The bill, SB 58, introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would create a five-year pilot program beginning in 2022 that would allow...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Following backlash from a decision to rescind an invitation to civil rights activist Angela Davis, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) will get a...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — The City Council Aug. 27 approved the Cultural Arts Commission’s June 24 recommendation for an Art in Public Places project at York Field...
OAKLAND POST — African American contractors and construction workers are opposing a proposal that has been presented to the City Council requiring that all jobs on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We request the New York City Mayor and City Council do the same by renaming a block of Fifth Avenue after the former...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — The City Council voted Tuesday on an agreement with the Birmingham Jefferson County Transit Authority (BJCTA) to use federal grant funds to purchase...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — The Birmingham Promise Initiative, launched this summer to build pathways into quality jobs for Birmingham City School (BCS) students, came to a successful...
OAKLAND POST — On July 16, the Oakland City Council passed an ordinance that re-established the Cultural Affairs Commission. This legislation paved the way for the...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — More than two months after Mayor Randall Woodfin presented his fiscal 2020 budget and three weeks after the fiscal year began July 1, the...
THE AFRO — St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church/ Iglesia Episcopal San Mateo in Hyattsville, MD. is using books as a means of bringing education, entertainment and hope...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — The City Council June 28 approved millions of dollars to be spent on an enhanced homeless-outreach and street-cleanup operation recently touted by the...
