CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Children and teens who are deaf or blind will have a great time this summer at an imagination camp designed just for them. Scheduled...
It was a sleepy South Carolina Saturday in mid-February. But Virginia Sanders was speaking, and the audience was rapt. “One might not have the power. But...
Nine months before Rosa Parks’ historic act of civil disobedience on a Montgomery, Ala. bus, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin also refused to give up her seat. Claudette...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The project represents the largest investment in a park improvement ever by the County of Los Angeles
Rev. Ray Williams, pastor of Morning Star Baptist Church, is sponsoring a call to action with a prayer breakfast at his church on Saturday, March 30...
A growing number of Oaklanders—joined by Senator Nancy Skinner—are calling on the State of California to cancel the balance of the $100 million loan that the...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Since 2013 the Colour of Music Festival has brought international, national, and regional classically trained black musicians of African descent to share their musical talents.
CHICAGO CRUSADER — Credit Dispute Cloud, LLC is an entirely new model of “credit repair” that empowers individuals to get a handle on, repair and maintain good credit.
At 1 p.m. on Sat. Feb. 16, the Oakland Police Commission (OPC) hosted a three-hour public hearing on policing in the homeless community at Taylor Memorial...
Teachers say: ‘Get up, get down. Oakland is a union town!” “Bargaining with the district has not — in two years — produced an agreement that...
Oakland Principals went to Sacramento this week to lobby state legislators to help solve the Oakland Unified School District’s financial crisis. The principals spoke to the...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — From bath oils and soft drinks to skin creams and coffee bars, everywhere you look, you can see what looks like the next hot...
Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced this week that she will be running for president in 2020. The theme of Harris’ campaign will be “For the people,”...
Marriage? Not interested. Nope, you’ve tried it and it’s not for you. Neither is love, apparently, as evidenced by the string of awful dates you’ve had...
A young developer in the Bay Area, oWow, is planning to unveil an emergent home typology to address the need for sustainable “workforce housing” in response...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Trump announced the deal 35 days into the longest-ever partial government closure that has left an estimated 800,000 federal employees without pay and...
The Chase Center will be the new home of the Golden State Warriors when it opens in September 2019. The center is a first-of-its-kind in San...
For couples looking to get married on Valentine’s Day, consider a romantic ceremony inside the picturesque and historic John Muir House in Martinez. In partnership with...
“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Taking place on the third Monday of January is the only U.S....
When the unmanned Apollo 6 rocket launched in the spring of 1968, it carried with it a camera that took images in space that had never...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The “Women in Power Town Hall” series provides a platform for leading women in policy and activism to engage listeners in a critical...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Storm-weary Southern Farmers now face fresh economic fears amid a political storm which seems to have no end in sight.
Alstom, the Mare Island based company and promoter of sustainable mobility, announced it had been awarded a three-year, $56.6 million on Dec. 4, 2018, by the...
On Sunday, Jan. 6, while the rains deluged with torrential force, people from all over Contra Costa County, San Francisco, Alameda County, and the Bay Area...
Subject to legal challenges under the California Voting Rights Act, “at-large” elections in Vallejo have been challenged as discriminatory. In an attempt to examine whether transitioning...