Representatives of social justice organizations and individuals announced a civil rights class-action lawsuit Thursday against the City of Oakland in the wake of police violence during...
As the worldwide demonstrations continue two weeks after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, the question is whether outrage will lead to real...
Marin County residents took to the streets June 2 in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis May 25, 2020. Like many of...
SURJ Marin (Showing Up for Racial Justice) conducted a car caravan on June 5, 2020, to protest the death of George Floyd and police brutality. Floyd...
As I write this column, there are two stay-at-home orders in effect in major cities across California due to sickness — one for the coronavirus and...
Bonnie Pointer, a co-founder of Oakland’s renowned Pointer, who shot to fame in the 1970s, has died. She was 69. Her death was announced in a...
The world recognized her as having possessed one of the greatest singing voices of her era. An Opera News reviewer for the Washington Post wrote: “The...
As mass protests continued across the state Tuesday, the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) called for lasting change in race relations — as well as reform...
Carl Robert Hampton, affectionately known as “Cowboy” to family and close friends, was born on February 7, 1942, in Gulfport, Miss., to the parents of Louis...
[George] Floyd’s murder sparked peaceful demonstrations in cities across the country, demonstrations that, in Minneapolis and a few other places, turned toward riots. Chauvin and his...