When news broke about Facebook collaborating with data mining companies during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, it may have broken the dam. Now almost...
Yes, prisoners are in prison, right or wrong, but that does not mean they should be allowed to die from something that possibly could have been...
Happy 77th Birthday Post News Group Publisher Paul Cobb. Mr. Cobb was a young civil rights activist in 1965 drawn to voter registration battles in Selma,...
Wearing their crowns together, the Smith family say they are affectionately known as “The Bay Area Royal Family,” doing fellowship and inviting families to learn, grow...
For the last six years, First Presbyterian Church of Oakland at 27th and Broadway has been aiding the needy and unhoused through their food ministry. On...
Children are often taught that it is better to give than to receive. That is just what Quinten Jones, a seven-year-old from Oakland, CA did for...
Judicial elections are non-partisan and one would hope less fraught with politics-as-usual tactics. But in the contest for No. 2 seat on the Alameda County Superior...
In the summer of 2019 Mayor Libby Schaaf announced plans to construct a safe RV parking site for unhoused residents living along Wood Street in West Oakland...
What started out to be a protest against a purportedly racial-bias incident on the shores of Lake Merritt near the Cleveland Cascades in April 2018, has...
In a virtual press conference on Aug. 6, legislators announced Assembly Bill 767, which will make it easier for victims of violence, including by police, to...
August 6 is the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. If the constitutional amendments passed after the Civil War — the 13, 14 and 15th...
Activist and former Berkeley mayoral candidate Mike Lee died at age 64 of complications related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease early in the week of Aug....
Internet technology, which has changed the way we communicate, is estimated to generate global economic wealth totaling more than $7 trillion. In an era where the...
A happy mix of Oakland Street Academy staff and parents planned the school’s approach to distance learning together at an evening Zoom meeting. It was not...
Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden Jr. chose California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. Let’s go win this, @KamalaHarris. pic.twitter.com/O2EYo6rYyk — Joe...
Late Post Editor-in-Chief was murdered while walking to work in Oakland on Aug. 2 — 13 Years Ago Chauncey Bailey was editor-in-chief of the Post Newspaper...
On July 31st, Vallejo Police officers found a racially-charged obscenity, along with other offensive language, spray-painted on the building occupied by Vallejo City Councilmember Hakeem Brown....
At the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida on July 25th, in what has been called a “wubble” (women’s bubble) the WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) kicked...
On July 28, Gov. Gavin Newsom reappointed Tia Boatman Patterson executive director of the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA), a role she has served in since...
The San Francisco Fire Dept. was established in 1866 and it took almost 90 years before the first Black firefighter, Earl Gage Jr., was hired in...
Educators in Marin County are still very cautious about the reopening of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are also concerned about the recent school reopening...
For the first time in California, a local government is partnering with a private company to provide free charging for electric vehicle drivers without spending taxpayer...
During the late 19th century, elevators were constructed in a way that required a person to manually open and close its doors. Residential and commercial buildings...
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) is taking initiative and working with the city and vendors to prepare for full-time distance learning for the upcoming Fall semester...
Dr. Eric Bishop was recently named the seventh Superintendent/President of the Ohlone Community College District and the first Black president in the district’s history. While some...