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 Godfrey Lee A special screening of “California’s Forgotten Children,” a film about children who were victims of sexual exploitation and human trafficking, was shown at...
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 McKenzie Jackson | California Black Media In October, the Greater Sacramento Urban League (GSUL) received its biggest donation in the civil rights organization’s 54-year history....
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...
By Tamara Shiloh In 1965, a select group of Black students participated in a summer school program funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and held at Harvard...
By Bishop Garland Hunt With less than a week before the midterms, crime and justice remain hot topics used to gin up voters and get out...
By Port of Oakland Communications Office The Port of Oakland hosted a congressional supply chain stakeholder meeting this week in Jack London Square. The event was...
By Aldon Thomas Stiles | California Black Media On Monday, Oct. 17, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the COVID-19 emergency in California will end Feb. 28,...
By Ben Jealous Art can be a powerful tool for social change. Sometimes that threatens people in power. Right now, some of America’s greatest artists are...
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By Emil Guillermo | Post News Group Of all the eligible voters in our country, just 10% actually do, according to a recent Unite America Institute...
By Ben Jealous Like so many of us right now, I’ve got Georgia on my mind. As I write this, I’ve just gotten back from meeting with Black...
By Brandon Patterson A federal appellate judge on October 21 temporarily blocked the Biden Administration from cancelling student debt in response to a lawsuit filed by...
By Ken Epstein | Post News Group Buried in a draft plan for future housing in Oakland, submitted to City Council by Mayor Libby Schaaf’s Administration,...
By Tamara Shiloh During the early 19th century, pieces of mail and packages could only be posted at the town’s post office. For many, this meant...
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Black Women Organized for Political Action PAC (BWOPA-PAC), California Black Women’s Collective PAC and Black women leaders throughout the state are calling...
By Brandon Patterson President Joe Biden recently announced major federal action on marijuana reform, declaring that he was initiating pardons for all federal convictions for simple...
By Brandon Patterson President Joe Biden recently announced major federal action on marijuana reform, declaring that he was initiating pardons for all federal convictions for simple...
By Maxim Elramsisy | California Black Media On October 13, President Joe Biden and Congresswoman and mayoral candidate Karen Bass visited the site of the future...
By Maxim Elramsisy | California Black Media On October 13, President Joe Biden and Congresswoman and mayoral candidate Karen Bass visited the site of the future...
By Richard Johnson The need to exercise the right to vote was and still is a long battle that has cost precious lives at every turn...
By Roohee Marshall Upon meeting Mr. Wilfred Ussery, the former national Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality who had gained the reputation of being an...
By Ben Jealous Right before our last national elections in 2020, thousands of Black voters in Detroit got a call from someone posing as a woman...
