President Barack Obama visited the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma on Thursday, July 16, becoming the first sitting president to visit a...
A national hip hop competition, Jack’N for Beats, is searching for the hottest unsigned MC to crown as this year’s winner with a $10,000 grand...
The United Urban Warriors Society is hosting its first annual Native American Walk for Sobriety in Richmond on Saturday The two-hour long...
By Margaret Gordon After making a commitment to keep the forthcoming bulk terminal coal free, the developer has conducted a deal behind our backs...
Sakurako Fisher, chair of the National Board of the Smithsonian Institution, will serve as a co-chair of the Smithsonian Institution Capital Campaign, David J....
Laney College, Merritt College, College of Alameda and Berkeley City College – the four community colleges that make up the Peralta Community College District...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee introduced legislation this week along with Congressmen Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) that could make solar energy more...
Oakland-born vocalist E.C. Scott specialized in performing songs popularized by other artists – Etta James, Nancy Wilson and Al Jarreau among her favorites – during...
Courtesy of USF News USF computer science students and alumni are helping disabled patients stand and walk again with therapeutic video games that build...
McClymonds High School, the school of champions and home of the original Warriors, is celebrating its 100th anniversary next week with a series of events that...
Almost six weeks after the shooting death of Demouria Hogg, the Oakland Police Department and the City of Oakland have not released information related to the...
The San Francisco Foundation (TSFF) announced on Tuesday that it is donating $34 million to a number of Oakland nonprofit community organizations, a gift of an...
By Brenda McCuistion Travis Credit Union hosted “Mad City Money “at Richmond Police Athletic League (RPAL) for high school students on June 22. ...
As human trafficking continues to oppress young children in the Bay Area, the issue is now becoming a serious concern in Marin County. Between...
In a confidential legal opinion issued in February to the City Council, Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker told councilmembers that their plan to sell the East...
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was sworn in as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Outgoing president Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, appointed her as head...
Marin City Community Development Corporation (MCCDC) held a 4-week boot camp for 12 men who have undergone intensive training under the auspices of the Laborers’ Community...
San Francisco, CA – The Giants returned home to an unusual schedule. They flew from Washington, D.C. this morning to San Francisco to start a six-game...
Over 300 community members rallied before Galería de la Raza, an art gallery in San Francisco’s Mission district, on Wednesday where an LGBT mural depicting two...
Amid the rainbow-clad crowds cheering at this year’s San Francisco Pride Parade arose a mass of Black Power fists. They belonged to the Bay Area contingent...
By Paul Rockwell I first met Kelly Carlisle at the Acta Non Verba Youth Farm in East Oakland. The quarter-acre garden is located in Tassafarango...
By Troy Williams California Lawyers for the Arts and the William James Association, in collaboration with the University of San Francisco (USF), recently hosted a...
The city’s law enforcement leaders are under fire following the release of a report by the W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI) indicating that African-Americans in San...
By Richard Wembe Johnson, Folsom Prison There have been some new positions taken with regard to changing the laws that would allow some prisoners the...
By Quenajonay Frazier, Green & Gold Fremont High will no longer be Fremont High after next year — it will be called Innovation School of...