If you haven’t noticed, all Americans are engaged in an even bigger game that means so much more than the Super Bowl. Our democracy is falling...
Race and class are part of the climate change tragedy. But here’s the thing about fire and smoke: They don’t discriminate. The Santa Ana winds, clocking...
Only former Vice President Al “Hanging Chads” Gore knows how it feels to lose the way Harris did and then have to maintain a sense of...
When I saw him, Carter was spry, quick-witted, and kind. The former president wore a bolo string tie anchored by an eight-stone turquoise clasp that dangled...
Giovanni was probably one of the most famous young African American women in the 1960s, known for her fiery poetry. But even that description is tame....
What’s happened in Syria has the potential of reshaping the politics of the entire Middle East. The U.S. can’t afford to sit back and do nothing....
Strongman politics is not for the weak. Here in the U.S., Donald Trump is testing how strongman politics could work in the world’s model democracy.
A Black, South Asian Indian woman from Oakland -- the first ever to be elected to the United States presidency. That was the headline of hope....
After manning the fry station in Bucks County, what will “McDonald Trump” do next? The Palabok and Chicken Joy at the Philadelphia Jollibee for the Filipino...
On Oct. 14, two people got sick at a Donald Trump Town Hall in Pennsylvania. But Trump seemed indifferent -- to either the people who fell...
Kamala Harris started the week with a bang. “I have a Glock, and I’ve had it for some time,” she told Bill Whitaker on the Monday...
Due to publishing deadlines, I regret I won’t be commenting on Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate. Why even bother watching? CBS, in an outright concession to the...
She’s still calling herself the underdog, but the biracial woman from Oakland, half Black and half Asian American, just changed the race for the presidency of...
Robinson’s claim of being a “Black Nazi,” is among his least offensive postings. He also writes that the Holocaust was a hoax, and that slavery is...
The Democratic National Convention (DNC) had rhetorical flourishes that still resonate. If you’ve ever been underestimated, ignored, or made to feel invisible by others who assumed...
Are ethnic media outlets like the Oakland Post simply providing information? Or do they represent a de facto social justice movement in California? Those were the...
“This is going to be a great week,” Vice President Kamala Harris declared in an unexpected early appearance that brought down the house on day one...
I know the Olympics are over. Consider this me just running through the tape. You know, the one at the finish line. (Remember as the 100-meter...
Remember Oakland five years ago when Kamala Harris invoked her Asian mother and announced a run for the presidency. And then came Iowa. She wasn’t ready....
In corners of America dominated by MAGA disinformation, the concept of identity politics is vilified. It goes hand in hand with the anti-DEI wave that’s trying...
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao must be wondering how can a convicted felon with 34 guilty verdicts be riding high, while she, an uncharged elected official, fights...
Big Dem donors and media are keeping alive a troubling narrative about last week’s debate: that Joe Biden isn’t fit to be president and should step...
The news of Trump’s historic 34 guilty verdicts are about a week old. Has it sunk in that the man who insists on being the Republican...
AANHPI is not a social term; it’s purely political, a Frankenstein acronym that reeks of inclusion, and yet there’s so much more of us we don’t...
How the nation’s first College of Ethnic studies came about, bringing together Latino, African American and Asian American disciplines may offer some clues as to how...