By Jovanka Beckles & Rebecca Kaplan We write as leaders who have endorsed Pamela Price for Mayor, and who have endorsed Cat Brooks for Mayor, to urge...
Mayoral Candidate Pamela Price (standing second from left) with a group of volunteers who helped clean Oakland steets. “We need to stop the illegal dumping...
Volunteers, making phone calls and talking to voters, join Desley Brooks’ campaign for re-election to Oakland City Council for District 6. The Oakland Post endorses Desley...
Assistant Pastor Jaqueline Thompson provided opening remarks at the mayoral forum on Sept. 19. Photo by Sue Taylor. Mayoral Candidate Saied Karamooz raised a point that...
Oakland resident Georgia Taylor will celebrate her 101st birthday on Sept. 13. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to parents Monroe and Pearlie Younger, she is one of...
This week, the City of Oakland released a new Cultural Plan, its first in thirty years. Titled “Belonging in Oakland: A Cultural Development Plan,” the document...
Gema Quetzal Cardena is interviewed by Sacramento TV station, KCRA. Oakland Unified School District senior Gema Quetzal Cardenas has been sworn in as the sole student...
Councilwoman Desley Brooks has refused to take a position on whether or not the city should adopt a policy which is called a “Project Labor Agreement”...
Oakland mayoral candidate Cat Brooks announced this week that her campaign contributions have surpassed $100,000 in grassroots donations. “Oakland is ready for leadership that can unite...
Parents and teachers protest last school year against cuts to programs and layoffs at school sites. Photo by Ken Epstein. The State of California is set...
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has promised to expedite funding for a faith-based proposal to utilize church parking lots for tiny homes and safe car parking for...
Left to right: Alicia Jones,Jordan Hicks, Che’ron Mize, Imani Packwood Scott,Freda Jackson,Ester Westbrook,Tonya Berry, Rev. Ora Hicks (Minister Tree Of Life) Pastor Phyllis Scott( Founding Pastor,...
By Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland The public banking Feasibility Study commissioned by the City of Oakland was released to the City Council and the...
The East Oakland Congress of Neighborhoods holds a Town Hall meeting Aug. 29 at Allen Temple Baptist Church to build community power to fight the toxic...
By Eric Arnold The Mercury News (August 12, 2018) reports that as a candidate Libby Schaaf promised that 28 percent of the housing built in Oakland...
Marco Senghor, owner of Bissap Baobab, is charged with obtaining citizenship illegally. He has pleaded not guilty. Photo courtesy of Mission Local Marco Senghor, owner of...
Carroll Fife, a longtime Oakland activist, speaks at a rally in support of proposition 10, the Affordable Housing Act, which would repeal the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Rental...
“The level of indifference (Mayor Schaaf) has shown to (homelessness) has been, until very recently, stunning,” says Pamela Drake in her blog. By Pamela Drake It’s...
The Oakland Post contacted the Mayor’s Office Wednesday morning seeking comments on allegations that Mayor Libby Schaaf has been “indifferent” to Interfaith Council of Alameda County’s...
The Oakland Post is endorsing Clarissa Doutherd for Oakland Board of Education in District 4, a candidate who has the experience, energy and commitment to take...
A crowd watches and dances as MJ’s Brass Boppers performs at the Black-Eyed Pea Festival in 2016. Photo courtesy of Omnira Institute. “Laughin’ to keep from...
Local faith-based organizations have stepped up to help create a solution to the human rights crisis posed by the City’s failure so far to effectively respond...
(l to r) Mayoral candidates Libby Schaaf, Nancy Sidebotham, Cat Brooks and Saied Karamooz. Last Thursday evening, the first debate of the 2018 Oakland Mayor’s race...
From now until September 14th, families pursuing affordable homeownership are invited to submit pre-applications for brand new single-family homes in East Oakland. These homes are the...
Melissa Welch, MD, MPH, a Bay Area leader in managed care, long-term care, and cultural diversity, has been named Chief Medical Officer for Center for Elders’...