Your mother dealt with things you can’t imagine. It was a different time when she was your age, with societal issues you’d never tolerate and rules...
Part I.“Poetic Pain” We are but African diasporic seeds sprinkled amongst the Earth. Reincarnations of our pasts’ past. Returned ancestars in the flesh roaming about the...
All the Fighting 90th Tuskegee Airmen wanted was an opportunity to serve. And in “Black Eagles,” the play by Leslie Lee and directed by L. Peter...
Celebrating the African American Community with Respect, Empowerment, and Joy What does fostering diversity and inclusion at a Fortune 50 company look like? It looks like...
The first American woman of any race to become a bank president was Maggie Walker. Her achievements and successes inspired African Americans to become self-sufficient entrepreneurs....
The Majestic Motown Soul Revue is back and it was spectacular. After a two-year hiatus, the annual event returned and again benefits youth in the Bay...
Dr. Joy DeGruy was the keynote speaker for “Supporting Women Caregivers, Women Serving Vulnerable Communities,” a one-day symposium held at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland last...
Event Marks Official Farewell for Longtime Greenlining Institute President Orson Aguilar The Greenlining Institute’s 26th annual Economic Summit in Oakland, “Reclaiming Our Time,” will feature a...
On Feb. 25, 2018, 14,000 people from around the Bay Area took over the streets of downtown Oakland to celebrate Black culture, creativity, resilience and joy—The...
Part 1 Ella Baker was 61 years old when her comrade, historian Howard Zinn, wrote in “SNCC: The New Abolitionists,” “Ella Baker is more responsible than...
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. held their 35th Annual California State Meeting in Walnut Creek at the Marriott Hotel. Themed “Walking in Greatness,” the event’s tagline...
February is a powerful month in the African-American psyche. It is Black History Month, and it includes Valentine’s Day. This is a time when we could...
The Northern California Zeta Sigma Council hosted their inaugural Founder’s Day celebration at the Doubletree Hilton in Sacramento on Jan. 19. Members of Zeta Phi Beta...
In 2020, Michael Tilson Thomas is turning over the San Francisco Symphony baton to Esa-Pekka Salonen, the much sought-after Finnish conductor/composer, who led the orchestra on...
What can make a 6-year-old and a 78-year-old spend their day together at the Richmond Recreation Complex? The answer is chess. In what may be the...
The “Black History Seven” is a phrase I created to reference the same people we talk about, read about, and focus on every year during Black...
Leave me alone. That’s what you’d like to tell just about everybody right now: go away. Stop talking to me. Don’t fuss, quit fighting, put away...
When photojournalist Wesaam Al-Badry, a first-year student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, went to rural North Dakota to photograph a Native American family struggling...
Richmond High’s inspiring young band director won an emerging educator award this month from the California Music Education Association, a recognition that doesn’t surprise his students...
Marriage? Not interested. Nope, you’ve tried it and it’s not for you. Neither is love, apparently, as evidenced by the string of awful dates you’ve had...
UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ announced the appointment of Cal Performances’ new executive and artistic director, with this letter to the campus: “It is my great...
Richmond artists are producing a national fine arts exhibition at the Marin Society of Artists in San Rafael that opens Jan. 10. Richmond residents Gail...
On view from Jan. 10 to March 28, “Inside Insights” will showcase some 100 works including original paintings, prints and sculptures by San Quentin inmates who...
Oakland’s Youth Poet Laureate program is a citywide effort to celebrate literacy through poetry and connect young writers to far-reaching opportunities. Each year the program accept...
May I have that, please? That’s what you say when you want something, and people are impressed by your manners. You’re a kid who never just...
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