Grant supports housing development, infrastructure, streetscape improvements; follows $2.39 million Prohousing Grant earlier in 2023 [Courtesy City of Oakland Public Information Office] The City of Oakland...
By Joe W. Bowers Jr., Edward Henderson California Black Media Black Women’s Group Tour on Economic Empowerment to Make Stop in Oakland The California Black Women’s...
By Joe W. Bowers Jr., Edward Henderson California Black Media Black Women’s Group Tour on Economic Empowerment to Make Stop in Oakland The California Black Women’s...
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media After being sworn in as Speaker of the California Assembly last week, Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) appointed two members of...
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media After being sworn in as Speaker of the California Assembly last week, Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) appointed two members of...
By California Black Media California’s chief elected education officer, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who is the first Afro Latino and second African American...
By Niara Savage, published in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, an NNPA member The promise of 40 acres and a mule An ambitious wealth-building initiative will provide 800...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Jackson, a renowned figure in the fight for civil rights, founded PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) in 1971 and established the National...
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media The California Hawaii State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (CA/HI NAACP) held its...
By Emil Guillermo On Juneteenth, there was a lesson for everyone in America when pro-slavery forces couldn’t prevent all of the U.S. from getting the truth....
By Richard Johnson A coalition of community volunteers distributed free meals to the unsheltered at the intersection of High Street and International Boulevard on June 10....
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 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...
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...
SAN DIEGO VOICE & VIEWPOINT — …because so many Black journalists were afraid of going on the record, I got to thinking about what Black-led newsrooms...
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 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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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...
