By Troy Williams A few days ago, I was introduced to a group of Black Greek letter organizations. Initially, I assumed the organization was...
By Darrel Carey Once again we see the new population of Oakland attempting to run the political and economic agenda of Oakland and specifically, in...
By Richard Wembe Johnson, Folsom Prison The senseless demented forces that propelled that young white man to slaughter innocent Charleston, S.C. Black churchgoers, while praying...
By Troy Williams California Lawyers for the Arts and the William James Association, in collaboration with the University of San Francisco (USF), recently hosted a...
By Richard Wembe Johnson, Folsom Prison There have been some new positions taken with regard to changing the laws that would allow some prisoners the...
By Gwen Moore The life of a man with schizophrenia, 31-year-old Dontre Hamilton, ended after he was struck by 14 bullets from a Milwaukee...
By Jesse Jackson Not unlike the four little girls killed in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, today the nation and the world...
By David Sayen People ask me all kinds of questions about Medicare. One of the most frequent concerns is whether they should sign up for...
The City of Oakland has many reasons to be a leader on racial justice and social equity. In order to ensure that Oakland makes improvements that...
By Dan Siegel Dismissing Dylann Storm Roof as simply a crazy bigot is a big mistake. He may be both, but so were Hitler and...
By Congresswoman Barbara Lee An article in the recent Post Newspaper, “Oakland is Losing Its Racial, Age and Economic Diversity,” highlights the growing crisis of...
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.” Ecclesiastes 4:9 (KJV) “And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand...
Last month at the graduation ceremony of Tuskegee University, a historically Black college, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke candidly about the racial barriers facing African Americans...
They teach our children, drive our buses, clean our streets and deliver our mail. They staff the government and make it run. Their public-sector jobs are...
By Rebecca Kaplan In recent years, we have suffered from the cyclical epidemic of responding to problems by aiming at the wrong targets. Some...
By Cornell William Brooks, President/CEO, NAACP How many more lives of unarmed Black men and women, tragically and senselessly killed by police, will our nation...
By Omar de la Cruz Having spent my entire life in Oakland, I know the many faces and channels of the city. As a resident...
By Yahya Munsar, winner of the John George Award “Black Lives Matter” – we’ve heard it many times, but what does it actually mean?
Los Angeles just voted to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. The nation’s second-biggest city joins Seattle, San Francisco and little Emeryville,...
By Aminah Cherry, MD According to various reports, depression affects 1 in 10 people throughout the United States. This condition, and other diseases affecting mental health...
By Umair Vaid Assembly Bill 420 was signed on September 27, 2014 by Governor Jerry Brown, making California the first state in the nation to...
By Richard Johnson, Folsom Prison Letters Incarceration can be a very difficult and demanding situation for anyone. But there is potentially a bright side if one...
By Barbara J. Thomson Despite BART board policy to contract with small local businesses, the Board of Directors at their April 9 meeting voted unanimously...
Two-thirds of the people who live in Oakland are not white and Oakland has a long history of struggle for racial justice. Yet the situation...
Oakland is internationally recognized for supporting humanitarian causes and opposing police brutality. The city continues to be on the forefront through hip hop artists who are...
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