Your dream job is still a job. You still must be there on time, look presentable and be ready to go. You can love the work...
“The legacy of Jim Crow is not just a legacy in Alameda County. It's real. It is what is happening and how (the system is) operating,...
VOICE & VIEWPOINT — What can those of us who see what is coming and disagree with the new order the Conservative Right has in mind,...
One year ago, on June 12, 2023, my husband of 35 years was picked up by a van at our house in Oakland. It was the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Reparations United holds that the Evanston Restorative Housing Program is a crime-based claim for apartheid housing policies, and as crimes against humanity, with...
SAN DIEGO VOICE AND VIEWPOINT — So, where can teachers see accurate and empathetic representations of the struggles, successes, and joys of teaching Black kids in...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As a former history teacher and student of history, I’m deeply concerned by the dark efforts at work to silence these stories. The...
The California Endowment’s (TCE) mission is to expand access to affordable, high-quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the...
For generations, affirmative action has been a powerful means of lowering barriers to education for historically marginalized and underrepresented students of color. At its core, it...
This week in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated leading a bold effort to teach America an urgent lesson: racism is not just...
Although California Senate Bill 357 was intended to alleviate arrests of willing sex workers under anti-loitering laws, it opened up a Pandora’s box loophole that hinders...
Last week, Assemblymember Corey A. Jackson (D-Riverside) introduced Assembly Bill (AB) 742, legislation that would prohibit the use of police canines for arrests, apprehensions and crowd...
The members of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans are preparing the pretext for recommending a modern-day Freedmen’s Bureau...
Last week, Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles) the chair of the Assembly’s Committee on Elections introduced Assembly Constitutional Amendment 4 (ACA-4). The legislation proposes amending the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Black Press has been the primary voice of the Black community for 196 years. It informs those who are frequently forgotten or...
While A.I. technology is making massive strides, it is still limited to processing massive amounts of data based on parameters set by the programmer, according to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — It’s unfair to take up spaces that should be for people at the lake and give them to folks from Alameda. I’ve called...
Sometimes friends have to hold friends accountable.
Ideally, voting rights should be a nonpartisan issue. Congress repeatedly passed extensions of the Voting Rights Act that were signed by Republican presidents. But right-wing politicians...
Dr. Robert Parris Moses, a Harlem native who became one of the architects of Freedom Summer, died at his home in Hollywood, Fla., on July 25....
Here’s why dozens of Texas lawmakers are in Washington, D.C. this week.
Investigators are still going through video and social media documenting the attempt to disrupt congressional affirmation of President Joe Biden’s victory. Just six months ago.
The 450-page reader focuses on Black dating and male and female relationships, a subject that has been a large focus for his weekly podcasts over the past four years....
Our Black newspapers are now celebrating 194 years of being the keeper of the flame of liberty and the source of information in “our” struggle for...
A huge fan of the L.A. Dodgers, Turner was invited to try out for the Dodgers Minor System in the early 1950s and the ambidextrous Turner...