Bay Area and state officials lambasted both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Texas state government after the high court declined to approve an emergency petition...
With over 63,000 ballots counted as of September 2, Mia Bonta declared victory in AD-18 Special Election after earning a decisive 56% of the vote.
While a lot of establishments such as restaurants, movies, amusement parks and places where people gather were closed for the past 18 months because of COVID-19,...
As the race heats up, Elder has been on the campaign trail making his case and telling voters why he is the best candidate to be...
Four influential California Black women came together for a Facebook Live conversation focused on the Delta variant of COVID-19, the safety of vaccines and how they...
The lawmakers’ letter comes in the wake of a Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) most recent eviction...
In a culture that worships celebrities and amplifies their words and actions, the coronavirus pandemic has presented an opportunity for some to apply and others to...
Racial diversity among Bay Area elected officials increased during the 2020 election cycle, but new data shows wide disparities still exist across the region.
West County Friends for Diana Becton hosted a fundraiser on Saturday for the re-election campaign of Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton.
Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan, Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas, President Pro Tempore Sheng Thao, and Council Member Carroll Fife, in coordination with extensive community support, are...
She was a retired teacher, serving in Oakland at Horace Mann Elementary School for over 20 years. She was a member of North Oakland Missionary Baptist...
All ye news consumers are probably thinking more about Afghanistan in these last two weeks than at any point in the last 20 years.
Lucille Alicia Sharpe was born on April 22, 1921, in Hope Hull, a community outside Montgomery.
In an uncommon turn of events, friends of the taggers saw the Instagram post of the vandalism and alerted the taggers. The taggers reached out to...
The group is asking that the city “address delineate grave concerns centered on disparities that plague contracting opportunities for Black, minority and women-owned businesses. Further, request...
Millions of students are returning to in-person classes at California’s public schools, amid parents and teachers’ fears about the inability to vaccinate children under 12 and...
Elder blames Newsom for California’s homelessness crisis and the unaffordable housing market. According to him, Newsom is responsible for unreasonable COVID-19 restrictions and heavy-handed environmental regulations.
Diversity means we need to coalesce even more for common goals. No one group is dominant.
Pippin’s work, according to some scholars, depicted the Black experience in America “without an assumption of inferiority or attitudes of protest or satire acquired in defense...
Those numbers also determine how – and how much -- state and federal funding will be allocated to counties and cities in the state.
The fellowship affords her the time, Brown-Hinds says, to explore how to make the visualization tools and datasets needed for solutions-focused data reporting on racial justice...
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber launched the 2021 Ballot Bowl: Registration Rumble, an inter-collegiate competition organized to drive voter registration among students attending all of...
“On August 3 in Perris, California – a Riverside County city located about 70 miles east of Los Angeles -- Lincoln Cooper and Fortunate Hove Cooper...
Just in case Black businesses in the state are not aware, the California Legislature recently passed the $100 billion California Comeback Plan. It is the biggest...
Throughout America’s history, the majority of its political force has been white. But African Americans had often been involved in supporting roles such as advisors, legislators,...