NNPA NEWSWIRE — Given the fact that today in America, Black Americans and other communities of color are being told to shut up, stay asleep, don’t...
Charles W. “Chuck’’ Cherry II of Daytona Beach, a fierce advocate of the Black Press and a longtime warrior for social justice, died on Saturday, July...
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media The California Hawaii State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (CA/HI NAACP) held its...
By Emil Guillermo On Juneteenth, there was a lesson for everyone in America when pro-slavery forces couldn’t prevent all of the U.S. from getting the truth....
By Jeremy McCants On Tuesday, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao released her new budget proposal, and the City Council will begin its review. This is a critical...
By Ken Epstein Several hundred people attended a rally last Sunday on the steps of the Alameda County Court House by Lake Merritt and live on...
By Megan Tagami CalMatters California high school students will be required to pass an ethnic studies class to graduate, starting with the class of 2030. That...
By Carla Thomas The atmosphere was fully charged at the 25th annual Madam C.J. Walker Business and Community Recognition Luncheon and Empowerment Forum held by the...
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Congressman Raul Ruiz (D-CA-25) last week introduced bicameral legislation to create the “César...
By Mark Allen Cu Bay City News Outside of a Seafood City Supermarket in Milpitas, a crowd of young Filipino-Americans gathered last weekend to commemorate the...
By Dr. Phillip Gardiner It’s hard to believe that with the amount of damage that the tobacco industry has inflicted on the Black community, that there...
By Daisha Williams Post News Group Intern Like many other cities nationwide, Oakland was heavily impacted by Tyre Nichols’ death on January 10 in Memphis, Tenn., three...
By Kathy Chouteau | Richmond Standard The Richmond Art Center (RAC) has announced its lineup of three winter exhibitions, including Art of the African Diaspora, Connected Always and The Remembrance...
By Emil Guillermo Oakland, with its new Asian American mayor, is one of the most diverse cities in America. How many times do you think Mayor...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Ferrell will use the funding to attend conferences for school counselors to discover best practices in the field and plans to send two students...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Ben Crump, the renowned civil rights attorney and freedom fighter, elicited the night’s biggest applause when he accepted the newly minted Justice Icon...
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....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Vernice Miller-Travis said that it’s her job to analyze data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of national priorities. In that way,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "As RTM360 we have been able to do some great work on behalf of amazing clients. But it felt like with the watershed...
By Post Staff Oakland Vice-Mayor Rebecca Kaplan will introduce a resolution on Sept. 20, 1:30 p.m. to the Oakland City Council urging the Women’s National Basketball...
By Emil Guillermo This past week we saw the celebration of Juneteenth come alive with coincidence. On the second year since it became a federal holiday,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This last primary election showed that some of us were keeping ourselves from voting. There are 55 million unregistered Americans eligible to vote,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In Los Angeles, CA, Bishop William J. Barber, II said “The same people that are blocking laws that uplift the poor are the...
The City of Sausalito commemorates Juneteenth with a production of “Words That Made the Difference: Brown v. Board of Education,” a play written and directed by...
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...
