Ethnic Studies advocates in Los Angeles won a school board resolution recently that makes ethnic studies a part of the graduation requirements. Possible courses include African-American...
Many people are aware of Oakland’s growing restaurant industry. However, Oakland is becoming the center of more upstream food production. With transportation access and empty...
By Joi Smith, Laney College student In my community, it is hard to make friends, but losing them is easy. I look out for those...
When Mayor-elect Libby Schaaf gave the Post/El Mundo News Group an exclusive interview Thursday pledging to involve and “include robust community participation” around jobs and minority...
The year is 2014 and our Nation is still struggling with systematic oppression and racial disparity. The systems that persist span across several aspects of life...
“ A Democratic ticket is the clear ticket that we should be voting on, regardless of who said what or did this – that shouldn’t...
Libby Shaaf was elected as Oakland’s new moderate mayor because she offered reasonable substantive, practical solutions to many problems facing Oakland, rather than sniping at her...
Tuesday is Election Day and it is time to vote. If you fail to show up, your vote still counts, but in support of those you...
By Walter Riley and Anne Weills Many of the mayoral candidates are contributing to widespread apathy about the upcoming election by refusing to say anything...
By Max Anderson QUESTION: Big Soda is spending millions of dollars to defeat Measure D. What is your personal connection to this issue? Long before...
By Curtis O. Robinson, Sr. “Behold, these are the wicked; and always at ease, they have increased in wealth.” Psalms 72:12 As the dollar continues...
The existing Citizens Police Review Board and Community Policing Advisory Board are under the authority of the City Administrator. This past June the Coalition for Police...
I have watched with intense interest our national, state, and local politics. As Richmond prepares to vote for a new mayor and city council, a few...
By Jorge Rosales, Laney College Student I remember being paid $5.75 an hour at my first job as a host at Hobee’s, a brunch restaurant in...
At a recent event in support of Measure D, which would place a one-cent per ounce tax on sugary drinks, Councilman Laurie Capitelli insisted that local...
By Janice Ewing It has recently been suggested that a feeling of harassment or hostility towards us exists at some of the senior centers here in...
“Why does death have to stop love? It doesn’t stop people from voting in Chicago?” ~ Jarod Kintz We have all heard the humorous quips about...
By Vicki Alexander Just last week the nephew of my housemate died of complications from diabetes. He was just 29 years old. He was an avid...
I’m proud to say that Oakland is at the forefront of the national minimum wage movement, according the San Francisco Chronicle, and this November, there is...
By Norman La Force Sometime soon, the Oakland City Council must decide whether to take 53 acres of beautiful free public parkland away from the public...
Ferguson, MO City motto since 1894: PROUD PAST, PROMISING FUTURE: On August 9th of this year unarmed 18 year old Michael Brown was fatally shot by...
“I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come, get...
By Jovanka Beckles In the civil rights era we knew that to make progress and be treated with dignity, we’d have to stand up against taunts,...
I freed a thousand slaves, I could have freed a thousand more if they knew they were slaves. ~ Harriet Tubman We have explored our facts...
It was with a heavy heart that I watched the events unfold in Ferguson, Missouri. You hear it in the news – another young African American...
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