On December 5, at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, the William + Flora Hewlett Foundation hosted a panel discussing High Performance: The State of the...
The Paramount will be fully lit for a New Year’s Eve celebration with the 70’s Soul Jam, featuring The Stylistics, Chi-Lites featuring Marshall Thompson, William Hart’s...
Friends of Negro Spirituals invites the public to its free, wheel chair accessible, introductory celebration of its 20th Anniversary on Saturday, Nov. 3 from 1 p.m....
On Thursday, Oct. 18, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books will present “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart: an Evening with Alice Walker,” hosted...
The lives of Black women in American politics are remarkably absent from the shelves of bookstores and libraries. “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics” is...
Concert goers rocked the night away on Thursday at San Francisco’s AT&T Park with the band synonymous with Americana California; soft rock band the Eagles. Along...
A crowd watches and dances as MJ’s Brass Boppers performs at the Black-Eyed Pea Festival in 2016. Photo courtesy of Omnira Institute. “Laughin’ to keep from...
By Charles Curtis Blackwell Gentrification was in its early stages. Most of us not knowing it would escalate to what it is today, being the desecration of the...
(Left to right) Councilmember Lynette McElhaney, Issa Pointer, Ruth Pointer, Sadako Pointer, and Mayor Libby Schaaf celebrate 18 years of Art + Soul and honor the...
“It is easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.” – Nelson Mandela While the world was celebrating Nelson...
Left to Right – Civil Rights Attorney John Burris, Oakland to Yale Graduate Akintunde Ahmad and Producer Ephraim Walker. Photo by Brandon Aninipot. Oakland native...
A woman performs a traditional coffee ceremony of Eritrea and Ethiopia at Meaddi Club’s one year anniversary. Older adults from throughout Alameda County gather to celebrate...
International music leaders celebrated the “Roots from the West” program on July 1, at Allen Temple and gave the African American Heritage Hymnal to Per Oddvar...
Homegrown Heroes: Oakland A’s at 50 Honors three iconic players: Dennis Eckersley, Rickey Henderson (pictured above) and Dave Stewart. In celebration of the Oakland Athletics’ 50th anniversary...
The ladies of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. brought their blue and white along with The Color Purple to MetWest High School in Oakland in May...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened on April 26, 2018 in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. It is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy...
The Oakland Film Society hosted the 16th annual Oakland International Film Festival (OIFF) from April 3-7. The festival commemorated the 50th anniversary of the assassination of...
The Oakland International Film Festival will be held next week, Tuesday, April 3 through Saturday, April 7, featuring 65 films over the five-day period. This year’s main...
Photo Caption: Panelists of Airbnb’s “The Evolution of Black Travel” at MoAD, Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. (left to right) Janaye Ingram, Airbnb National Director of...
(left to right) Journalist, Al Jerome A. Chede and community advocate, Uche Uwahemu with honorees and keynote speaker, war crimes investigator, Hassan Bility, Massa A. Washington, a...
On Wednesday, February 28th San Francisco City Hall was filled to capacity with guests enjoying the Black History Month Cultural Experience. Hosted by Supervisor Malia Cohen and...
Dr. Gloria Arjona, a professor at California Institute of Technology, holds a hand drum she sometimes uses in her lectures on Black Mexican history. Photo by...
Delina Patrice Brooks is one of the choreographers whose work is being showcased at the 2018 Black Choreographers Festival. Photo courtesy of her web site. The...
Events every Saturday in February honor Black veterans of various American wars By Marco Frazier This year’s Black History Month theme is African Americans in Times...
Inspired by true events from 1944. A Dennis Rowe Entertainment and BRG New Arts Production, “Port Chicago 50” is a story of love for Country, the American...
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