WAVE NEWSPAPERS — The county’s plan to retrofit an immigration detention center in Lancaster as a women’s jail,seems likely to be abandoned in its current form.
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — Sherlyn Haynes’ only child, Christopher DeAndre Mitchell, was killed by a Torrance police officer weeks before Christmas.
Photo by Sarah Carpenter. City workers represented by SEIU 1021 walk off the job Thursday afternoon after six months of fruitless negotiations with the City. As Mayor Libby...
A subdued crowd of about 200 people gathered in front of Oakland’s City Hall to protest last Friday’s verdict in the case of the policeman who...
As dozens of athletes across the country are joining 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in his national anthem protest, one group of young protestors has grabbed the...
Three Oakland pastors are taking the lead to bring together interfaith religious leaders to participate in coordinated faith community actions next month at statehouses across the...
Over 20 Latino-owned food trucks led a mobile march down International Boulevard in Oakland Monday – from 46th Avenue and International to City Hall –disrupting traffic...
Oakland’s City Council has voted to enter into an Exclusive Negotiating Agreement (ENA) with UrbanCore and East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. to build 252 market...
Over 100 local residents barricaded the entrances to the Oakland Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Development Summit on Friday morning, March 18, demanding an end to...
By Tyler Kingkade and Travis Waldron, the Huffington Post University of Missouri system president Tim Wolfe announced Monday that he would resign, amid calls...
By Stacey Rodgers On Friday, May 1 – International Workers Day, otherwise known as May Day, about 2,000 people came together to march and protest...
Over 100 people joined a roving protest this week to demand that Emeryville businesses release video footage related to the police shooting of Yuvette Henderson. ...
After months of rallying the community in the Jobs Not Jails campaign, organizers with the Ella Baker Center in Oakland and nearly 100 community members peacefully...
Edwin Kindzeka Moki, ASSOCIATED PRESS YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Thousands of Cameroonian youths marched through the capital Saturday to show support for the military’s battle...
Samantha Masunaga, L.A. TIMES PASCO, Wash. (The Los Angeles Times)—Several hundred people marched through the streets of Pasco, Wash., on Saturday to protest the fatal...
JALEESA JONES, USA Today (USA Today)—#BlackLivesMatter will soon be more than just a Twitter hashtag for students at Dartmouth College. The school will offer a course this...
Victor Blackwell and Devon Sayers, CNN VALDOSTA, Ga. (CNN)—A jury found Kendrick Johnson’s parents and five other family members guilty of misdemeanor charges related to a...
Victor Blackwell and Devon Sayers, CNN VALDOSTA, Ga. (CNN)—A jury found Kendrick Johnson’s parents and five other family members guilty of misdemeanor charges related to a...
Over 300 Jews, joined a few non-Jews, marked Chanukah, the holiday of liberation, by taking over the streets of downtown San Francisco, marching, praying, laughing, and...
Medical students from more than 70 schools across the country on Wednesday protested racial profiling and police brutality through the social media initiative #WhiteCoats4BlackLives. Hundreds of...
Following a decision by the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors to table a sales tax that would have helped save embattled Doctors Medical Center (DMC)...