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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pamela Daniels lost her left leg to a Van Hool bus. In September 2005, she boarded one of AC Transit’s expensive new Belgian-made buses in downtown Oakland. But as the 51-year-old library ...

Gentrification isn’t just the physical remaking of a neighborhood. A key part of the process is the renaming of spaces to make them more appealing for affluent newcomers. Very often this results ...

Thomas Espinosa noticed that there was something about the property at 4136 Rifle Lane in the Oakland hills that didn’t match city records. Behind a single-family home was a small backyard ...

Oakland Firefighters Say Their Department Is So Badly Managed, Ghost Ship Warehouse Wasn’t Even In Its Inspection Database ...

Renee Moncada-McElroy has an ageless beauty about her: Sitting at Geoffrey’s Inner Circle on a recent Wednesday, with braids coiled on top of her head, wearing tight jeans and a blue patterned ...

One giant fraud spawns ten thousand smaller frauds — that was one of the major lessons of the foreclosure crisis. A relatively small number of mortgage lenders issued millions of toxic home ...