A Bay Area newlywed couple, Kevin Weston and Lateefah Simon, has started a national effort to register 1,000 African Americans as possible bone marrow donors and...
By Carla Thomas Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi thanked her supporters recently at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio celebrating over 25 years of service, speaking with...
By Ashley Chambers Local government officials are responding enthusiastically to a New York law passed this week expanding a ban on assault weapons, making the state...
The Richmond Branch of the NACCP has announced that an award established to recognize individuals demonstrating acts of non-violence will go to Councilman Corky Booze (right),...
Chevron has announced that its 2012 Fuel Your School program has paid out $958,739, benefitting 960 local public school classroom projects and impacting 111,925 students in...
Commentary By Kia Croom On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., along with 53 members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Alabama...
SEEDS Community Resolution Center is partnering with Berkeley Adult School to offer community conflict resolution services and mediation training. The Spring 2013 training SEEDS Executive director...
Former U.S. attorney general Ed Meese says President Obama will risk impeachment if he goes too far on gun control. A fellow at the conservative Heritage...
By Danielle Savage Lifelong Medical Care center’s Community HealthCorps is presenting its first “We Dream: A Community Health Fair” this coming Monday, on Martin Luther King,...
The life of Joel Overall, whodied last week at 64, was celebrated by more than 1,000 in arousing “home-going” funeral service at Shiloh Christian Fellowship. Affectionately...
Clergy met with Councilmember Libby Schaaf recently to support a plan, authored by her and Councilmember Larry Reid, to hold additional Oakland Police Academies and to...
By J. Douglas Allen Taylor Are some members of Oakland City Council becoming disenchanted with Phil Tagami’s development of the Oakland Army Base? At least one...
By Post Staff Hundreds of protesters filled Oakland City Council chambers this week to oppose spending $250,000 to give a short-term contract to nationally recognized police...
Oakland Post staff members Adam Turner and Carla Thomas visited the Chauncey Bailey Memorial Exhibit at...
By Kitty Kelly Epstein In light of Oakland’s increase in homicides in 2012, the Oakland city administrator is asking the City Council to hire as a...
Courtesy of Reuters President Barack Obama proposed a new assault weap-ons ban and mandatory back- ground checks for all gun buyers this week as he tried...
By Danielle Savage Gaylynne Hudson, a laid off teacher who lives in Oakland, was facing immediate foreclosure of her home. With the help of friends who...
By Jesse Brooks The public is invited to participate in a conversation at the Bay Area’s first public showing of PBS’s Frontline documentary “End Game: AIDS...
By J. Douglas Allen Taylor While the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department is not required by federal law to hold suspected immigration law violators for pickup by...
By Jesse Jackson When President Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, his hand will rest not only on President Abraham Lincoln’s Bible, but...
Darrell Carl Burton, a former PG&E employee and a mentor to children, died Wednesday, Jan. 9. He was 68. Burton graduated in 1963 from Lincoln High...
About 50 middle school students from the East Oakland Leadership Academy had the opportunity last week to hear a performance by classical violinist and violist Nokuthula...
The award-winning Oakland Youth Orchestra is opening its season with a winter concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27 at Holy Names University in Oakland. The...
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