Sex trade survivors, frontline service providers, humanitarians, abolitionists, human rights activists, and women’s rights advocates are advocating to end sex trafficking and the sexual exploitation of...
Approximately 200 people gathered in front of San Francisco City Hall on May 1, to protest the stay-at-home measures put in place to slow the spread...
Pediatric surgeon Ala Stanford and 30 other doctors in Philadelphia have taken COVID-19 testing to people after getting calls from family and friends worried that they...
The health departments of six Bay Area counties issued a joint statement this week announcing they are extending shelter-in-place orders through the end of May to...
What happened to living for the weekend? Where did hump day go? When will sports return? When will these kids return to school? Where can I...
Prior to COVID 19, Oakland had experienced a housing crisis for years, a crisis that has taken new proportions as the general public is expected to...
In just a short period of about 4 months, the coronavirus became a worldwide pandemic affecting almost every country on the globe. The speed with which...
Oakland educators are joining with community groups to ask teachers and other members of the community who have the financial means to contribute all or a...
Not many people in the world imagined World War III would be against an invisible enemy, but all will agree Americans are fighting for their lives,...
On his way to work, a doctor was told to “go back to f—— China.” An Asian nurse delivering medicine to a sick patient was spat...
As if having to monitor their blood sugar wasn’t enough of a concern, people with diabetes are more likely to develop complications from coronavirus. It is...
It is often stated in the Black community: “when the country gets a cold, we get pneumonia.” The genesis of this saying is unclear, but the...
The ravaging and rapid surge of the coronavirus, known as COVID-19, has altered the lives of nearly everyone globally. From mandated sheltering-in-place orders to the thorough,...
Interim City Administrator Steven Falk today announced temporary changes to city government functions this week in accordance with the Alameda County Health Officer’s order for all...
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads to the Bay Area, resources are being made available to provide help to the most vulnerable populations, which include the unhoused,...
San Francisco, CA – The San Francisco Foundation announced today that it has launched the SFF COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund. The fund will provide support to...
Following the example of the Italian government, California lawmakers are pushing for legislation that would provide rental relief and order a temporary suspension of mortgage payments...
It is only when we experience mental illness in the family that we learn how little we understand about it and how little we know about...
Most of us do not pay attention to being bombarded daily by an accumulation of subtle toxins that steadily contaminate us. It’s becoming more and more...
As states and communities rush to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products linked to vaping, Carol McGruder races from town to town, urging officials to...
Latina mothers living in the United States experienced a significant jump in preterm births in the nine months following the Nov. 8, 2016, election, according to...
Do you want to improve the quality of your life? Who doesn’t? Jonathan ‘Fitness’ Jones has the answer. He says it is never too late to...
Following in San Francisco’s footsteps, Richmond is considering a ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes. At its meeting Tuesday, the City Council is expected to...
When the first cell phone went on the market in the U.S. in 1984, it was big, clunky and very expensive. The Motorola DynaTAC sold for...
All locations tested during wet winter months received A grades Water quality was good to excellent last summer at all Marin County beaches according to a...