Alameda County’s Santa Rita jail, run by Sheriff Gregory Ahern, has been the target of multiple lawsuits over jail conditions and has had the most in-custody...
Oakland Ballpark Project Part 3 By Tanya Dennis Oakland A’s President David Kaval was surprised to learn that concerns expressed by the original designers of the...
By Ken Epstein In a show of growing strength, Oakland teachers and longshore workers held simultaneous one-day strikes and rallies together on April 29 to stop...
By Tanu Henry, California Black Media Non-profit organizations across California will be able to apply for funding from a pool of cash created with an initial...
By Rev. Dr. Martha C. Taylor, The Oakland Post The late Fannie Lou Hamer said, “If I am truly free, who can tell me how much...
Black Mental Health pt. 2 By Tanya Dennis With the global COVID-19 pandemic, we knew the world would never be the same. For some, COVID-19 has provided...
By Post Staff A group of distinguished individuals joined the Small Business Association (SBA) and PayPal for a round-table discussion with California business leaders on small...
The Homegoing Celebration for Rev. Dr. Gillette O. James, Pastor Emeritus of Beth Eden Baptist Church in Oakland will be held Monday, May 16, 2022, at 11:00...
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 Aldon Thomas Stiles, California Black Media Last week, the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, San Bernardino County Workforce Development Board, and the Riverside County...
By Rebecca Kaplan California is facing a housing crisis with housing costs exceeding growth in wages, and inadequate housing supply, particularly for low-income households. In California,...
On Saturday, May 7 at 3 p.m., Four Seasons Arts will honor Founder Dr. W. Hazaiah Williams with a piano recital by Dr. Rochelle Sennet. The...
By Tanya Dennis There are over 58,000 children in California who are on welfare or probation supervised placement within the child welfare system. Michelle Chan, founder...
Gladys Green transitioned from this world in her home quietly surrounded by her loving family, on March 28. She was widely known as someone who lived...
By Makiah Hiley Known as “the hood alchemist,” Lilly Ayers founded and runs Oakland’s first Black woman owned crystal botanica, Queen Hippie Gypsy. Located in Downtown...
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media Contra Costa District Attorney Diana Becton, California’s only Black D.A., recently joined the state Attorney General Rob Bonta and...
The Xi Gamma Omega Chapter (XGO) of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. achieved a major milestone raising and awarding $40,000 in scholarships in honor of the...
New legislation from Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (AD-44) will be heard April 26 in the Higher Education Committee, Assembly Bill 1705, which will address remedial placement policies...
By Makiah Hiley A decade after the Oakland School for the Arts (OSA) opened class enrollment it is putting on its first all-Black theater production, Every...
A Fruitvale District Job Fair will be held Thursday, May 5, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. at the Fruitvale Transit Village. Aliza Gallo, of Strong Native Workforce and...
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...
THE OAKLAND POST — “Think about human error in bringing a ship of that size into the Port, and the potential with the turning basin located...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Because of the leadership of "Doll" Carter, the Forward Times newspaper reached a paid circulation of roughly 65,000 and is still one of...
THE CHICAGO DEFENDER — John Lewis was 25 when he marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten by state troopers who...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “When we invest in middle class America, when we invest in people who have to go to work every day, America does better,”...
