“We must take advantage of every opportunity we get, and all do our part to ensure that our unhoused residents have a safe place to sleep...
Don’t ever forget that the judges who are willing to sacrifice reproductive freedom are usually just as eager to allow states to restrict voting rights. The...
“During her 30-year career in public service, Supervisor Chan had been a staunch advocate for children, families, the elderly, affordable housing, and health care for the...
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...
Social justice lawyer Janani Ramachandran is a runoff election for State Assembly District 18, which will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 31.
We cannot afford to be complacent and watch like spectators as our rights are rolled back, our interests are ignored, and our power is discounted. This...
Top health officials and medical experts joined on August 18 to announce that booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine will be available beginning on September 20.
Fortunately, there are solutions on the table. President Biden has formed a Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States to study ideas for...
The U.S. Justice Department has joined a series of whistleblower lawsuits alleging that Kaiser Permanente engaged in a years-long scheme to defraud the federal government out...
State officials announced July 26 that health care workers and state employees will now be required to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or get tested regularly if...
The main office is located at 9925 International Blvd., Oakland, CA, 94603 and they can be reached by calling 510-777-1177.
Kaiser Permanente is the first hospital in the East Bay to offer the program through a partnership with the Cleveland Cord Blood Center
Public health officials are partly attributing the recent spread of COVID-19 to the more contagious Delta variant of the virus, which recent data shows makes up about 35.6%...
Health system commits $10 million in community grants, announces sweepstakes ahead of July 4 goal
“The biggest hardship that we’re facing right now is really getting the governor to support investments to community-based organizations to focus on health equity and racial...
The group also offers housing and health care resources in Solano County for the homeless and low-income youth.
“This is alarming,” said the Rev. K.W. Tulloss, president of the Baptist Ministers Conference of Los Angeles and Southern California. “People were already leery. But we...
Last week, the CLBC also threw its support behind another woman of African descent who is also familiar with that body, Mia Bonta of Oakland. She...
Richardson hit the ground running responding to the COVID-19 pandemic four days after being sworn into office by Newsom. She is responsible for 11 state departments...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Collectively, they argue that too often, insurance companies refuse to cover emergency services, and either patients are forced to pay bills they cannot...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — We must not forget the many ways that Black bodies were used for medical experiments, from the use of Black women's genitalia to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Minority and low-income Americans suffer from a significant lack of access to quality health care. They are also more likely not to have...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — We are in the biggest crisis this country has seen in a long time. Alabama is in its biggest crisis in a long...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Forty-five’s hostility to poor people is reflected in reductions in Medicaid, food stamps, and the CHIP program, which provides health care for poor...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Democrats turned out in record numbers for Super Tuesday as many are citing their desire to remove President Trump from office as a...