A public banking forum is scheduled for Monday at City Hall The Oakland City Council this week passed a resolution authorizing a public bank feasibility study,...
Sheryl Grant, executive director of Global Women’s Leadership Network with 2017 graduate Jumoke Kassim of Nigeria. Photo by Carla Thomas. The Global Women’s Leadership Network (GWLN)...
Oakland City Council members are moving forward with a proposal that would close a loophole in the rent law that allows unlawful evictions. The Community and...
Oakland City Council meeting in June 26. Photo on Facebook by Cat Brooks. In an act of civil disobedience, Oakland residents, city workers and community shut...
The Greenlining Institute has announced its strong opposition to the nomination of former OneWest Bank CEO Joseph Otting to be Comptroller of the Currency. Greenlining noted...
Mrs. Annie Small, Mrs. Gustava Wilson, Mrs. Rodessa Battle, and Beatrice Lino McMurray – Four women who worked at the Marin shipyards during WWII – were...
Photo credit: Meaghan M. Mitchell/Hoodline Sitting on the couch one night watching television, Richard Washington had an idea that would change his life. He was...
A coalition of labor, economic justice, community-based, and civil liberties organizations are supporting lawmakers’ unveiling of details to reform California’s money bail system – a system...
Bay Area job seekers are invited to two job recruitment events to learn more about multiple positions at Tesla, the energy-efficient car company. ...
By Kirsten West Savali, The Root Since the first iteration of slavery transformed into its more contemporary forms—Jim Crow, mass incarceration, redlining, employment and education...
Although the new law is not effective until July 1, 2015, employers in California will need to begin carefully reviewing any sick leave or paid time...
Local business people packed into the grand ballroom in Oakland Marriott City Center last Friday to hear Mayor Jean Quan, Mayor-elect Libby Schaaf and a...
In keeping with its commitment to supporting Richmond community-based agencies, Laconia Development LLC has donated $5,000 to the Richmond Steelers.
By Curtis O. Robinson, Sr. “Behold, these are the wicked; and always at ease, they have increased in wealth.” Psalms 72:12 As the dollar continues...
Like a lot of Oaklanders, Professor Kitty Kelly Epstein, likes to check out some of the new restaurants that are opening up in our city She...
Some new and diverse businesses are coming to Oakland to create jobs and strengthen our economy. First up Sears sold the former Capwell building at 20th...
Ujamaa (pronounced oo-Jah-mah) means cooperative economics. It is an African Kwanzaa principle that focuses on building Black businesses to create Black economy to further the development...
North Carolina — once poster child for the New South — now displays the nightmares spawned by the Tea Party right no longer restrained by the...