By Rob Bonta California’s housing crisis has become an out-of-control car rolling downhill and gaining speed. The ability of middle and low-income people to secure affordable...
From left to right: West Oakland Health Center Board member Gregory Nash, Board President Lloyd Ware, Board member Michelle Byrd, Board Treasurer Preston DuFauchard, Dr. Geraldine...
The second annual Buddy Montgomery Jazz Legacy Awards will be held Saturday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., at the Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St. in Berkeley....
Jeff Denson will teach a 6-week course beginning Wednesday, September 27 on ‘The Rise of Modern Jazz (1940-1959)”. During the 1940s and 50s, jazz transitioned from its role...
East Bay racial justice organizers convened an emergency press conference at Berkeley City Hall Thursday to criticize Berkeley are authorities’ “flawed approach” to addressing the white nationalists...
Congresswoman Barbara and other East Bay political leaders held a press conference at Berkley City Hall Tuesday to condemn hatred, bigotry and violence as local communities...
Top Row, Left to Right: Bill Whitaker, Sweta Vohra, Emily Taguchi, Durrell Dawson, Marjorie McAfee, Center: Shilpi Gupta, Bottom Row, Left to Right: Daphne Matziaraki, David...
By Jowel C. Laguerre, Ph.D., Chancellor, The Peralta Community College District Toward the end of his administration, President Obama introduced the investment idea of free...
Vernard Lewis, an urban entomologist whose work has had a lasting impact on insect pests around the world, has retired. UC Berkeley’s first African American entomologist,...
An art exhibition focusing on the train that carries up to half a million Central American migrants across Mexico toward the United States every year opened...
Youth Speaks, a world leader in youth development and spoken word performance, will host the 20th anniversary Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival from July 19- July...
UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare has won a five-year $3.4 million grant to fund recruitment, scholarship and research efforts in the school’s new Latino Center...
The University of San Francisco has announced an anonymous donor’s pledge of $1 million to help 10 African-American and Latino students from the East Bay attend...
Oscar Dubón, materials science and engineering professor and associate dean of equity and inclusion in the College of Engineering, has been selected as UC Berkeley’s next...
More than 200 community members attended a town hall meeting Saturday, June 17 where State Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), Assemblymembers Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) and Tony Thurmond...
Senator Nancy Skinner Recognizes Red Bay Coffee as Small Business of the Year State Senator Nancy Skinner honored Oakland’s Red Bay Coffee as small business of...
Over $35 million in funding was awarded to schools through a law authored by Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond)/ AB 1014 was signed into law last year...
Feras Fahed Abushaar grew up in Kuwait knowing precisely the damage that conflict could cause. Both his Syrian father and Palestinian mother had lost their...
By: Yasmin Anwar, UC Berkeley News Humans are not the only species to show a strong work ethic and scruples. UC Berkeley researchers have found evidence...
Featured writers will include Walter Mosley, Roxane Gay and Alicia Garza Over the weekend of June 3 and 4, the third annual Bay Area Book Festival...
Barbara Lee released statement this week, saying that President Trump’s proposed FY2018 federal budget “is, at its heart, a moral document.” “It puts on paper the...
Shown (L to R): Professors David Pearson and José Lizárraga, who nominated them, with award winners Arturo Cortéz and Nicola McClung. UC Berkeley photo by Christine...
“The American people deserve to know if President Trump tried to quash the FBI investigation into his campaign’s alleged collusion with the Russians. If true,...
Shown (L to R): Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, Assemblyman Rob Bonta and Oakland Education Association President Trish Gorham. Lawmakers, parents, educators, students, and community organizations joined...
Three Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) employees were recently recognized by the Alameda County Office of Education (ACOE) as 2016-17 Classified School Employees of the Year. Each year, OUSD...
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