Oakland is once again in an uproar over a fatal police shooting of an African-American man. In 2007, it was Gary King Jr. In 2009, it was Oscar Grant. In 2010, it was Derrick Jones. In 2011, it ...

For forty years, the Bay Area Consortium for Quality Health Care, a private nonprofit, has provided medical services to low-income and uninsured people at sites in Oakland and Berkeley. With ...

The troublesome history of Oakland's most prominent Black Muslims -- and the political establishment that protects them.

1978 In October, an alternative weekly promising to be a home to literary journalism appeared in the East Bay during an unprecedented blizzard of hard news. The season culminated in the horror of ...

Buried on the web site of major West Coast developer SunCal Companies is the story of a little girl named Courtney Faye Smith. Courtney has spinal muscular atrophy and cannot play on area ...

Oakland’s Poorest Neighborhoods Will Be The Most Susceptible to Flooding Due To Climate Change And Sea-Level Rise ...

Jennifer spent the better part of 2009 in a hospital due to a stomach condition called gastroparesis. According to the Sacramento resident, that’s where she contracted Clostridium difficile (C ...

For La Chondra Rhymes, growing up with sickle cell meant hiding her disease — and silently suffering through the pain that came with it. Rhymes said her aunt, who became her legal guardian after ...

Beyond the berets and rifles: Preserving the full truth of the Black Panther Party involves archiving an invaluable cache of materials.

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Eddy Zheng has hundreds of supporters, an army of lawyers, the governor's okay, and a new wife. So why does homeland security want to deport him?

Javier Arango can still feel the bullet lodged against his spine. It paralyzed him instantly and is a reminder of the war he’s managed to survive. But this battle wasn’t waged in Kandahar or ...