The recent approval of recommendations by California’s reparations task force marks a significant step in addressing historical injustices inflicted upon black residents of the state. The proposed compensation package, which could amount to $1.2 million per eligible individual, aims to acknowledge and rectify the enduring impacts of slavery and systemic discrimination. Formed in the wake of... 

After five blacks were shot by their fellow blacks in Oakland, California, a black mob over 1,000 blocked the ambulance from taking the injured to the hospital. As a result, one of the injured died. The laughing black mob was celebrating Juneteeth. The blacks surrounded the ambulance, climbed on top of it, were “twerking” (dancing) and laughing while their fellow blacks were bleeding to... 

No food for white devils, only for black angels, courtesy of Jews elected as your mayors. A program to give $500 monthly checks to low-income families of color in Oakland, California, has been criticized for explicitly excluding the 10,000 white residents living in poverty in the city. The lottery system, funded by private philanthropists, will see the no-strings-attached checks go to households with... 

The “weekend cops” beat is not the most glorious job in journalism, but it is the easiest. All you have to do is check into the newsroom, grab a portable scanner, go to breakfast, visit the cop shop, ask a few questions, check the police blotter, eat lunch, scribble a few paragraphs about a car accident, then meet your fellow scribes for an after-work libation. But you do have to do one... 

At least 33 people lost their lives in the inferno which destroyed a California artist space on Friday night, Oakland mayor has confirmed. UPDATE: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf confirmed at a press briefing that the death toll had risen to 33. She said that a criminal investigation team has been deployed and inspectors are at the scene. Schaaf added that the humane removal of victims is the city’s... 

Oakland’s director of emergency services, scans a monitoring screen at the Domain Awareness Center. Earlier this week, the Oakland City Council voted to approve the second phase of a $10.9 million surveillance center that would enable the City to engage in widespread warrantless surveillance of Oakland residents who have engaged in no wrongdoing whatsoever. This is a terrible blow to privacy. The... 

Police in Los Angeles and Oakland clashed with pockets of violent protesters intent on wreaking havoc following the verdict in a high-profile court case that saw the killer of a black youth declared ‘not guilty.’ A number of protesters were taken into police custody Monday night after the LAPD declared an unlawful assembly shortly before 10 pm on Monday night in the Crenshaw district. The scene... 

Cops allowed Trayvon demonstrators to seize control of major street for three hours. One of the questions to emerge out of last night’s unrest in Oakland, where crowds protesting the George Zimmerman verdict turned violent and seized control of a major street for three hours, is why police withdrew from the area and allowed drivers to be terrorized. According to a report by ABC 7, protesters had... 

Less than a week after SWAT police went house to house ripping families out of their homes during broad daylight in the manhunt that ensued following the Boston bombings, other police departments have seemingly taken a police state cue and followed suit. Yesterday it was reported that FBI agents and local police SWAT along with the California Highway Patrol conducted a “massive sweep” of Oakland... 

Oakland police officers fire tear gas to control a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters near City Hall in downtown Oakland, California. Oakland police used tear gas against protesters marching on the streets of the city on May 1. ­According to witnesses police arrested at least two protesters and used tasers against them. Police ordered protesters out of the street after firing the tear gas and... 

Police in Oakland, California, have used tear-gas and flash-grenades as a 2,000-strong Occupy Oakland march turned violent, with some protesters claiming that rubber bullets were also fired into the crowd. At least 400 people were arrested. Initially, authorities had said 200-300 people were detained. But later the figure was revised to over 400 arrests, reports Reuters citing the Oakland emergency... 

An anti-corporatism protester carries a cardboard replica of the US President Barack Obama near Zuccotti Park in New York on October 24. Anti-corporatism protesters in New York plan to close down Wall Street by holding a street carnival to mark their campaign’s extension into its third month. Protesters plan to force the closure of Wall Street, US financial center and home to New York Stock Exchange,... 

Thousands of anti-corporatism protesters join a general strike organized by 'Occupy Oakland' in the western US city on November 2, 2011, to protest at police brutality. Thousands of anti-corporatism protesters have taken to the streets in the western US city of Oakland as the country’s ‘Occupy’ movement gains momentum. “Huge, enthusiastic, crowds are swirling through downtown... 

Young black males around the country are graduating at much slower rates than their white counterparts, according to a national educational study released Tuesday. The graduation rates for black males in Oakland mirrors the national numbers in this report. But this is a problem Oakland educators are working diligently to solve. There is a crisis in Oakland schools. The graduation rate for black students... 

A horrifying incident was witnessed by people in Oakland on Saturday, including an off-duty police officer. The officer saw a man shake a toddler violently and then hurl her into oncoming traffic. She was run over near Lake Merritt. The incident happened at around 5:30 p.m. at 5th Avenue and 15th Street. Witnesses say they are having a tough time recovering from what they saw. “It was shocking....