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 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 Loren Taylor The same playgrounds I grew up on in Oakland aren’t safe for my kids today. The Town deserves better, and it starts with...
By Ben Jealous Truth is a threat to authoritarianism. Reading is a path to truth. That’s why the freedom to read is essential to the freedom...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Breonna Taylor should have awakened in her home, as usual, on the morning of March 13, 2020. Tragically, she did not. She was...
Night Out for Safety and Liberation Events Held in More Than 50 Communities Across the Country Photos courtesy of Ella Baker Center, photography by Brooke Anderson...
By Tanya Dennis The Anti Police-Terror Project was formed by a hodge-podge of organizations led by community activist Tur-Ha Ak; nurse, Asantewaa Boykin; poet, Michael Walker,...
Courtesy of Marin County A new phone number for behavioral health crisis needs will soon launch nationwide. Instead of dialing 911, people should call 988 to...
By Emil Guillermo If you were celebrating on the Fourth of July, you have to be troubled on the fifth, sixth, seventh, and all the rest...
By Mariano Contreras The results of the June 7 primary election sent a message to Sheriff Gregory Ahern: Alameda County residents wanted change and desired reform....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — One published report said the individual carried a grudge against Kavanaugh because of the leaked draft of an opinion by the U.S. Supreme...
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...
THE OAKLAND POST — The A’s have set their sights on Howard Terminal, located in West Oakland’s industrial zone, and the heart of the Port of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Ahmaud Arbery was denied the opportunity to define his own legacy, but America, we have the power to ensure that it is one...
POST NEWS GROUP — Florence McCrary, a member of the Violence Prevention Coalition Family Support Advocates, representing mothers who lost children to violence in Oakland said,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — On "Let It Be Known" on January 27, four Black journalists, including this writer who served as Fairfax’s communications consultant, had an hour-long...
OAKLAND POST — California’s updated guidance differs from the CDC’s in one important way. The state is recommending that people who quarantine after a positive diagnosis...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Blacks and Asians may not have done anything at the level or speed as the Times expected to happen over the past year....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Parents have very legitimate concerns about violence in schools, increased bullying, and a lack of mental health resources,” Keri Rodrigues, co-founder, and President...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The filing comes a little more than one year after the December 5, 2020, encounter initiated by police officers with Army Lt. Caron...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Many of these murders are modern day lynchings and the evidence is swept under the rug. Ahmaud Arbery’s death was a case where...
NNPA NEWSSWIRE — Authorities said LaDexter Pelt, 25, of Green County, Alabama, and John DuBose Jr., 20, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, boarded a flight after Pelt celebrated...
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Local pastors across Georgia and Florida and the nation are mobilizing to attend the trial. Besides Jamal Bryant in Atlanta, pastor Jeffrey Dove...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison pointed to police departments like Newark and Camden, New Jersey, which achieved similar changes to great success. In...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "So, understanding that you're taking something that has been legal for a century at least, just for the sake of conversation, and criminalizing...
