After years of escalating and brutal displacement driving millions of Californians into poverty or homelessness, today, the California legislature this week passed Assembly Bill 1482 (Chiu)...
More than 120 Ladies In Red from Oakland, Stockton, Sacramento, Manteca, Fairfield, American Canyon, Berkeley, Richmond, Vallejo, Hayward, El Cerrito, Roseville, Texas, Arizona and New York...
Questions are being raised by members of the community whether city staff, funds and resources have been improperly utilized to support Oakland Promise, an education nonprofit...
In the midst of a growing homeless population in Alameda Count and as numbers have even doubled in Oakland, city staff is threatening to cut off...
On Sept 11, the Oakland Public Works Department plans to destroy about 20 small homes that residents who can’t afford sanctioned housing have built and currently...
Dozens of bay area groups and organizations as well as large crowds of unaffiliated people are protesting outside of ICE’s San Francisco federal building everyday around...
The 1950s and ’60s were the height of the Civil Rights Movement, but it was preceded by decades of direct action and struggle. The end of...
The Interfaith Council of Alameda County is hosting a regional meeting focusing on housing, homeless solutions and best practices. Refreshments will be served. Thursday July 11,...
Social Services Agency, District Attorney’s Office Lead Special Event at County Fair Alameda County’s leaders are marking Elder Abuse Awareness Month by recruiting the entire community...
The conflict between Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration and city workers is intensifying after Oakland officials declared an impasse in negotiations with two major employee unions just...
A huge mural honoring the life and legacy of Oscar Grant was officially unveiled last weekend, 10 years after he was killed on the platform of...
Dalvin Butler, an Oakland native and aspiring college administrator, recently graduated from the Rossier School of Education at University of Southern California (USC). Butler, 27, earned...
We can now celebrate that Mr. Leonard Powell, a longtime resident of Harmon Street in Berkeley, has been able to return to his home of over...
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and the County Board of Supervisors are facing a growing furor from Oakland residents and community groups demanding an independent audit...
The Arab American Foundation presented their 2019 Award for Individual Achievement to former Berkeley Mayor Gus Newport at their annual Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards...
God on Wall Street In 2017, Drew Gilpin Faust, then President of Harvard University, drew national acclaim when she presented to the academic world a conference...
God on Wall Street In an overwhelming move towards racial justice, the undergraduate student body at Georgetown University voted to pay reparations to the descendants of...
Could it get anymore California? Probably not. At the governor’s unveiling May 9 of his sweeping $213 billion revised budget for the 2019 – 2020 fiscal...
As the 2018-19 Oakland Unified School District’s (OUSD) academic year winds down in the wake of an historic teachers’ strike, Oakland educators, students, and their supporters...
Children and families gathered for a rally Wednesday in Oakland to call attention to the injustice of the bail and pretrial detention system as part of...
Uber drivers around the world are logging out of the company’s app to protest its compensation policies ahead of a blockbuster public offering. Strikes occurred on...
Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration this week released its proposal for the city’s $3.2 billion, two year-year budget for 2019-2021, which must be approved by the end...