By Wade W. Nobles, Ph.D Co-Founder The ABPsi, Professor Emeritus SFSU As many of you know, 50 years ago, a small group of professional Black psychologists and students...
By Carol McGruder, Co-Chair, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council Federally adjudicated racketeers (aka Big Tobacco) finally started their series of court-ordered apologies to the American...
By Oakland Community Leaders There is a 13-to-1 racial wealth gap between the median White family and the median Black family in the U.S. You can...
By Jeremy Cloward, Ph.D. and Makenna McDonald In ancient Rome, Marcus Licinius Crassus was one of the richest men in Roman history and a member of...
By Jerome Horton Having sex with a person with the specific intent of infecting them with the HIV/AIDS virus is a felony punishable by imprisonment for...
By Rashidah Grinage December 13, 2017 saw the inauguration of the Oakland Police Commission, which resulted from the will of the 83 percent of Oakland voters...
By Alvina Wong After four months of organizing by Laney students, faculty, and staff, Chinatown and Eastlake residents, and Lake Merritt environmentalists, the Peralta Board of...
By Dirk Tillotson The meek will not inherit the earth in Oakland’s system of public school choice. Given the likelihood of school closings, they may inherit...
By Joshua Coello Do you ever imagine what kids from Oakland go through on a daily? Do you wonder if your house bills are paid? Well,...
By Diamond Raymond As we near the one-year since President Trump was inaugurated, I reflect on what resistance means to me. This year marked the first...
By Bobby Mardis Nestled in the quaint offices of Point Richmond is great grandmother and author Tamara Shiloh, whose sole objective is to increase the historical...
By Laney College President, Tammeil Y. Gilkerson, Ed.D. Last Thursday, I attended the world premiere of “FOR O.” – a play at Laney’s Odell Johnson Performing...
By Deja Osby Kassof When I was two and a half years old, I was placed in foster care, and at age four, I was adopted....
By Greg Dill If you have Medicare, you can protect your identity and help prevent health care fraud by guarding your Medicare card like you would...
By Tamika Brown Peralta Colleges (Berkeley City College, College of Alameda, Laney College and Merritt College) are seeking to close equity gaps and remove the economic barriers...
By Haqq Shabazz On every street, in every public meeting, weekends and weeknights, people are talking about the lack of affordable housing and the resulting displacement....
By Congresswoman Barbara Lee Health care is a basic human right. No matter where you live or how much money you make, you should be able...
On Sept. 13, the Oakland A’s announced their choice for a new baseball stadium with much pageantry. The A’s unveiled their desire to build a new...
In August, Uber announced that it’s probably not coming to Oakland after all and will likely put the former Sears building back on the market. Since...
By Katherine Lugar, President/CEO American Hotel & Lodging Association; Lynn Mohrfeld, President/CEO, California Hotel & Lodging Association, and Kevin Carroll, Executive Director,Hotel Council of San Francisco The hotel industry is growing both nationally and...
By Dr. Yanira Cruz Hispanics are 50 percent more likely than whites to die from diabetes and liver disease. This gap could widen if lawmakers proceed...
By Tim Karas, College of Alameda President Beginning your education at a community college and then transferring to the University of California (UC) System or California...
By Elizabeth G. & Nathan N., members of OUSD Honor Band On September 25, 2017, most members of the Oakland Unified School District Honor Band knelt...
By Rob Bonta Imagine yourself a high school senior, enjoying fall sports, hunkering down for the toughest part of the semester, around the beginning of October....
By Tammeil Y. Gilkerson, Laney College President In the wake of the disasters that are plaguing our sister states and countries around the world, students, faculty,...
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