Oakland
Dr. Javay Ross, a pediatrician and co-founder of the BLOOM: Black Baby Equity Clinic, conducts a health screening on Christina Dozier, 2, of Oakland, as Dozier sits on her grandmother’s lap on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital’s Claremont Clinic in Oakland, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) As a Black mother, […]
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By Magaly MuñozPost Staff During a Tuesday press conference held at the Oakland International Airport, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price unveiled six new billboards that are part of an initiative to fight human trafficking in the Bay Area. The billboards, funded by a grant from Gov . . .
The Oakland City Council’s decision to pass a resolution on Nov. 27 calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages, and condemning the “recent rise of Antisemitic, Islamophobic, racist, homophobic, and xenophobic attacks” in Oakland and elsewhere has led many to wonder why the city’s leaders chose to get involved. After all, […]
It’s Monday. A vibrant center in Oakland has nurtured disabled artists for nearly 50 years. Plus, how California became America’s contemporary music capital. The art world has opened up in recent years to women, people of color and Indigenous artists — groups that had not often gained fair recognition from mainstream museums and collectors. Now […]
Oakland drummer, songwriter and producer Paul Tillman Smith. Courtesy: Paul Tillman Smith With the California Hotel’s neon-lit marquee illuminating a downtown nightscape, the cover art for the new album “The Sounds of Oakland” could serve as a movie poster for an early ‘70s urban romance or neo-noir thriller. The giveaway, aside from the tagline “music […]
Downtown Oakland’s main thoroughfare will go under major construction starting in 2025 to make it much safer for pedestrians to cross the street, according to the city’s transportation department. OakDOT plans to build ‘bulb-outs” on nearly every corner of Broadway from 2nd Street at Jack London Square to 11th Street. Bulb-outs are sidewalk curb extensions […]
By Bishop Bob Jackson For Dailymail.Com 18:43 14 Aug 2023, updated 20:11 14 Aug 2023 Bishop Robert (Bob) L. Jackson is the Senior Pastor of Acts Full Gospel Church of God in Christ in Oakland My 72-year-old wife is talking about getting herself a gun. That’s how . . .
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Dozens of people attended a community meeting on public safety organized with District 7 Councilmember Treva Reid at the East Oakland Youth Development Center on Thursday. Reid and others called for the meeting following what they say is a recent increase in abductions targeting Black girls and women. According to Reid’s office, Black people accounted […]