By Maxim Elramsisy | California Black Media “This is my home, and with my whole heart, I’m ready to serve, and my pledge to you is...
By Tamara Shiloh It was June 5, 1966. James Howard Meredith (born 1933), on a mission to encourage Black voter registration and defy entrenched racism in...
By Keith Burbank | Bay City News Criminal charges will not be filed against the driver of the vehicle that hit and killed Alameda County Supervisor...
By Tony Hicks | Bay City News Foundation The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office is warning people about a scam involving phone calls from someone claiming...
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media A webinar hosted by ChangeLawyers, the American Constitution Society (ACS) Bay Area, and Equal Justice Society was held...
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland), the only Native American elected official in the California Legislature, has been working diligently...
By Emil Guillermo Don’t think for a second that Asian Americans are rooting to end affirmative action. You might get that impression as the Supreme Court...
By Emil Guillermo Congressional elections remind us why we live where we live. At least in the Bay Area. California, a safe Blue zone for the...
By Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media A wave of Black candidates in California are expected to win after Tuesday’s general election. Among them are...
By Ben Jealous One of the great joys of my life is teaching. I’m fortunate to teach classes on social justice at the University of Pennsylvania,...
By Sean Ryan Congresswoman Barbara Lee released a statement Tuesday night thanking the voters of California’s newly drawn 12th Congressional District for re-electing her to the...
By Edward Henderson | California Black Media Last week, the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom released a list of bills from the current legislative session that...
Alameda County Briefs By Melissa Male ECHO Housing will conduct a Homebuyer Education Workshop for tenants living in Alameda, Contra Costa, or Monterey Counties, or working...
By Ken Epstein Oakland school board candidates seeking to halt the annual ritual of closing neighborhood schools and years of cutting budgets for classroom programs are...
Progressive/Liberal Coalition Leads in City Council Races Results for District Attorney, Board of Supervisors and State Assembly Contests By Ken Epstein With thousands of votes remaining...
By Post Staff Community advocates and organizations are calling on members of the public to show up Monday morning at a Special Public Works Committee hearing...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire With the midterm election just days away, the District of Columbia-based think tank, The Sentencing Project, has released a new...
By Ken Epstein District 6 Councilmember and candidate for mayor Loren Taylor says he is in favor of office buildings, retail, and residential development on a...
These five leading mayoral candidates (pictured above) represent different approaches to solving Oakland’s complex challenges. All are capable of leading the City of Oakland, although with...
By Aldon Thomas Stiles, California Black Media In August, The Children’s Partnership hosted a mental health panel centered around the voices of young girls and women...
By McKenzie Jackson | California Black Media The “Stop the Hate. Spread the Love,” initiative spearheaded by California Black Media (CBM) and others, was introduced to...
By Kiana Gums, communications director for Oakland City Council District 6. Business leaders and city, county and state representatives gathered to celebrate the more than $1.7...
By Godfrey Lee As part of their drug awareness programming, the San Rafael Elks 1108 showed a film about former Marin County Chief Probation Officer Mike...
By Manny Otiko | California Black Media Wesley Brownlee, a Bay Area native, is being held on murder charges by Stockton police. He is a suspect...
By Post Staff No Coal in Oakland, a grassroots coalition of community, faith, and environmental justice groups are denouncing an attempt by coal terminal developers to...
