Richmond native Déja Bryson will appear at Yoshi’s in Oakland on Sept. 8at 7 p.m. at a benefit for the “Lend a Hand Foundation” and “Ladies...
Local writer Robert “Fleetwood” Bowden is making his debut as a director, working on a new documentary on McClymonds High School’s championship girls’ basketball team. McClymonds...
[embedplusvideo height=”400″ width=”550″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/19XjmgY” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/XjXvb98uOf0?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=XjXvb98uOf0&width=350&height=300&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep1219″ /] Along with Too-Short and E-40 to Mac Dre and Keak-Da-Sneak, Mistah FAB (born Stanley Cox) has played a...
24 hours, 12 shootings, 10 injured, 3 dead. Oakland has become a war zone, a modern day battlefield where children are toting guns instead of books....
Lynette Gibson McElhaney is the newest minority member on Oakland’s city council. Representing District 3, a large portion of her district is West Oakland, an area...
A one-day conference to empower parents to close the education gap, “Creating a 21st Century Village,” will be held Saturday, Aug. 31 from 8 a.m. to...
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), an advocate for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is taking every opportunity to educate the community on how this health reform will...
[embedplusvideo height=”280″ width=”500″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/128adw8″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/FybBPQQrnEg?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=FybBPQQrnEg&width=500&height=280&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep7303″ /] The California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce (CAHCC) kicked-off its 35th annual convent in Downtown Oakland. The 3-day conference...
While home foreclosures in Oakland have fallen in past few months, the city has seen an increase in the numbers of Notices of Default, which means...
Spectrum Queer Media will kickoff the 2nd annual Oakland Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transexual and Questioning (LGBTQ) Pride Film Festival with a celebratory “gay-la” opening, Wednesday, Aug....
Hours after the city celebrated “National Night Out” – an annual national movement against crime – a double homicide early Wednesday morning claimed the lives of...
[embedplusvideo height=”281″ width=”450″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/191Og3L” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/8yNRf8t0Mvk?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=8yNRf8t0Mvk&width=450&height=281&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep3167″ /] Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) made a visit to La Clínica de La Raza health center in Oakland this...
The Oakland Public Library has selected 17-year-old Obasi Davis as the new Youth Poet Laureate for the City of Oakland. Davis emerged as the best of...
Underground Treasures has won the 2013 Best of Oakland Award in the Women’s Clothing Stores category by the Oakland Award Program. Underground Treasure offers one-of-a kind...
More than 200 family, friends, and community members gathered on Tuesday at McNary-Williams-Jackson Mortuary to pay their respects to 8-year-old Alaysha “Ladybug” Carradine. Alaysha was at...
Community members are responding angrily as news has began to spread that City Council President Pat Kernighan has called a special City Council meeting to reprimand...
David Glover and OCCUR’s reputation as a champion for low-income residents and neighborhood revitalization in Oakland made him and his staff natural partners for building a...
The world was stunned last Saturday when jurors in the George Zimmerman murder trial returned with a verdict after only 16 hours of deliberation. Zimmerman was...
8-year-old Alaysha Carradine was at a sleepover with two other children and their grandmother in the Dimond District neighborhood when gunfire struck the apartment’s front security...
African American high school students can be seen walking to 1746 Broadway Ave. in downtown Oakland headed to a summer program. But instead of being taught...
At the City Council’s Rules and Legislation Committee meeting on last Thursday, Council President Pat Kernighan requested a special council meeting to censure Councilmember Desley Brooks...
In the future, when people talk about the extra difficulties in getting things done in Oakland city government, they may bring up the Army Base tenant...
Last month, the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act and put the rights of voters of color at risk. This week, Oakland residents can step...
Gina Hill, the new principal at the Oakland Emiliano Zapata Street Academy, remembers that while she was growing up in Cincinnati, she attended schools that had...
By Ken A. Epstein A city council committee last week began a discussion of limiting or eliminating the right of landlords to raise rents to cover...
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