By Armond S. Robinson At its meeting on Feb.18, the Oakland City Council passed a resolution declaring March 8-15 Hepatitis C Awareness Week, calling on residents...
It was about this time last year; I was driving and listening to one of the music radio stations in Phoenix, Ariz. The host of the...
America’s gun culture costs lives and feeds our fears. Consider the most recent injustice in Florida, the verdict in the Michael Dunn case, and the most...
By Dan Siegel I am announcing my support of the campaign organized by Local 1021 of the SEIU and a coalition of community organizations to increase...
I love Arizona! Yeah, you heard me right. I’m a native – almost born, raised product of the 48th state in the Union. So, of course,...
“I’m a football player, and I’m gay.” With those words, Michael Sam, an All-American defensive end from the University of Missouri, demonstrated courage far beyond that...
As a little boy, after many awkward collisions with grownups while walking on the sidewalk, I was taught to walk to the right in order to...
By Kitty Kelly Epstein The Common Core, like many U.S. education reforms, sounded good when it was first discussed. It was explained that children across the...
By Howard FullerBlack Alliance for Educational Options This piece is being written in celebration of National School Choice Week It is extremely important for all of...
Blacks are being played for fools when the term Black History Month is being referred to as, “African American History Month”, due to political correctness. Black...
By Joan Davis After five incredible years as President and CEO of the Richmond Community Foundation, I am stepping down from this position at the end...
February 17th, 1937, twelve construction workers fell to their deaths while attempting to remove scaffolding from underneath a platform on the Golden Gate Bridge. On the...
As I went from event to event Monday celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King, I was struck by both the tribute and the distortion. The...
To avoid an international incident, my driver and guide finished their lunch and we resumed our trip. Up to that point, no one had ever...
After a coalition of San Francisco voters rejected a waterfront condominium project across from the ferry building last November, a battle is now brewing over the...
I am headed to Khe Sanh firebase by taxi from the city of Hue to the mountains of Vietnam close to the Laotian border. It is...
Many of the Vietnam veterans who return to Vietnam speak in terms of paying homage to their brethren whose lives, limbs, and sanity were lost in...
Every once in a while, we will have an encounter with a person that goes beyond meeting someone for the very first time and from that...
News headlines such as “Knockout Game Suspect Charged with Hate Crime” could prove detrimental to black urban youth. With the perception that ‘young black men in...
By Chris Jackson When I worked for the state legislature, a member once told an overly ambitious guy that there are those who get into politics...
By Thomas A. Kennedy America is home to 21.2 million veterans – men and women who were willing to risk their lives for our country. Unfortunately,...
Vietnam 2013 In 1965, I remember talking to a classmate when I was 14 yrs. old about the Vietnam war. Even then we were speculating about...
By D. Demond King Shouldn’t there be a requirement for legislators to adhere to the laws they make? Is it unreasonable to expect that elected officials...
By Allen Jones As a Black homosexual who has lived in The City since 1960, I have observed the blatant marginalization and disrespect of Blacks by...
Thanksgiving Day — a day of family gatherings to give thanks for our many blessings — has evolved into a day of turkey and football, as...
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