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 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...
If eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day is supposed to bring good luck, then Oakland will be having a tremendous lucky day on Sept. 24,...
By Post Staff Oakland is featured in a powerful new film, “Bottled Spirits,” premiering at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival on Sept. 2. Three Black artists who...
APTP Activist Slams Gov. Newsom’s ‘CARE Courts’ Plan By Maria Schindler On Saturday, several local organizations kicked off their plan to end the growing housing and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I wanted to use this list as an opportunity to elevate some films that may have been undervalued or overlooked for a variety...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — There are many advantages and disadvantages to gentrification, but many poor people will be displaced, and this is a reality of doing business...
You could say the tailoring business is in Julius “Eddie” Lofton’s blood. As the owner of JC Lofton Tailors in Washington, D.C., he’s continuing a family...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Opportunity Zones were created as a component of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in December of 2017. Their purpose is...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to a March 2019 study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), more than 135,000 Black and Hispanics around the nation were...
THE BURTON WIRE — Artist Shanequa Gay’s immersive, site-specific exhibition LIT WITHOUT SHERMAN celebrates Atlanta’s historic West End neighborhood. Integrating a mix of mediums, the exhibit...
SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Holding signs saying “Protect our right to stay” and chanting “Housing is a human right,” residents of Oakland’s California Hotel, the...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — More than 300 passionate community members attended a standing-room-only town hall meeting May 22 to oppose the passage of state legislation that could...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — The migration of well-to-do millennials, empty nesters and others into cities and the exit of working-class people and/or people of color is a...
OAKLAND POST — The panel tackled issued such as gentrification, mass incarceration, and immigration. Congresswoman Lee noted that this year marks 400 years since the first African...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “According to the National Fair Housing Alliance, individuals filed 28,843 housing discrimination complaints in 2017,” said Waters. “Under the Trump Administration, fair housing...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Although cheaper than Hollywood or Koreatown, for the community of Inglewood, that already suffers from inequality issues, the price for housing is not...
DALLAS POST TRIBUNE — Rep. Johnson filed House Bill 4394 in order to clarify that Texans who lose their homes due to economic development in their neighborhoods...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Memphis 3.0. is a proposed land use and development plan envisioned as a 20-year road map. With several dozen North Memphis residents on...
ATLANTA VOICE — Atlanta is accustomed to having company. People come from all over and leave with a touch of this infamous city.
Gentrification can have negative effects on the health outcomes of Black residents in Washington D.C. The CDC says that gentrification has many health implications that contribute...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — It’s only in recent years that researchers, physicians, pediatricians, academics and others have begun to drill down to ascertain what, if any, health...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The Neighborhood is a comedy starring Cedric the Entertainer who grows skeptical about a new white neighbor, played by Max Greenfield, who just...
THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — NASHVILLE, TN — The Haynes-Trinity Neighborhood Coalition protested a grease and oil disposal business Tuesday at the Metro Police North Precinct building...
By Erick Johnson (Chicago Crusader/NNPA Member) Downtown Chicago is set to explode with construction. In the next several years, the city that gave birth to the...
