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Posted March 3, 2021 from Face 2 Face Africa — Tobago-born actor Winston Duke is set to play celebrated Jamaican nationalist Marcus Garvey in an upcoming movie for Amazon Studios ...
Posted March 2, 2021 from Shadow And Act — Shadow and Act has learned exclusively from studio sources that Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing an upcoming Superman feature film from DC ...
Posted March 2, 2021 from The Guardian — Exits of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell sparked backlash from inside and outside the company Google will change procedures before July for ...
Posted March 2, 2021 from The Guardian — US Soccer has apologized for a 2017 policy that banned kneeling for the anthem. But the issue won’t officially be settled until ...
Posted March 1, 2021 from Shadow And Act — The Golden Globes reaps the harvest of its ill will. According to Deadline, the awards show's ratings are an all-time low ...
Posted March 1, 2021 from BBC News — Since December, more than 600 students have been abducted from schools in north-west Nigeria, highlighting a worrying development in the country's kidnap-for-ransom ...
Posted March 1, 2021 from The Guardian — The US supreme court will hear a case on Tuesday that could allow the court’s conservative majority to deal a major blow ...
Posted March 1, 2021 from The Guardian — The US Soccer Federation’s athletes’ council removed one of its members Sunday, a day after he made a speech at the federation’s ...
Posted March 1, 2021 from CNN — Opinion by Marc Bayard — Last week, President Joe Biden's nominee for US trade representative Katherine Tai -- a well-seasoned trade expert with ...
Posted March 1, 2021 from Al Jazeera — Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo became the world’s first recipient of a coronavirus vaccine from COVAX, a global scheme to procure and distribute ...
Posted March 1, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed — Former UNC system board member worked for DeVos-aligned school choice group and backed controversial Silent Sam agreement. Now faculty and alumni ...
Posted March 1, 2021 from USA Today — On Jan. 27, LeBron James quote-tweeted an article about Georgia’s proposal to limit absentee voting, which had keyed Democratic victories in the ...
The first talking picture ever made was 1927's "The Jazz Singer." For this historic event, the producers chose a film in which Al Jolsen appeared in his familiar racist and ...
Otis was a world-renowned musician, composer, and band leader of Greek heritage who grew up around Black Folk in his native Berkeley, integrating himself into the Black music genre that ...
Voting with your pocketbook is one of the best ways to effect change in a capitalist society. The U.S. is home to roughly 2.5 million black-owned businesses, according to the ...
Voting with your pocketbook is one of the best ways to effect change in a capitalist society. The U.S. is home to roughly 2.5 million black-owned businesses, according to the ...
Voting with your pocketbook is one of the best ways to effect change in a capitalist society. The U.S. is home to roughly 2.5 million black-owned businesses, according to the ...
Scenes from the day Crowds lining up outside waiting to be served Geoffrey Pete and Oakland attorney John Burris, one of our most loyal and longtime supporters Geoffrey Pete thanking ...
Annual Complimentary Thanksgiving Feast at Geoffrey's Inner Circle 2018 Version Sponsored this year by Oakland and NBA basketball stars Antonio Davis and Aaron Gordon Click on images to enlarge
By Joan Tarika Lewis Copyright 1999 To understand the significance of Geoffrey's Inner Circle is to examine, Africa’s story, our-story and history. Why is this important and what does this have to ...
MATRIARCH OF BLACK BERKELEY FAMILY MARKS 90TH BIRTHDAY — From the Berkeley Daily Planet Newspaper, March 9, 2004 — One of the great modern California folk myths is that African-Americans ...
African American Museum & Library at Oakland oral history interview with Dorothy Reid Pete discussing her family’s history in the Bay Area and her integration of the Oakland YWCA. Dorothy ...
Herman Pete was a star student athlete in the 1930's, first at Alameda High School and then later at Marin Junior College, excelling in both football and baseball. Pete attended ...
Frank Robinson, a trailblazing figure who was Major League Baseball's first African-American manager and one of its greatest players during a career that spanned 21 seasons, died Thursday after a ...
Posted February 7, 2019 from ESPN — Frank Robinson, the first African-American manager in Major League Baseball and the only player to win MVP in both leagues, has died at ...
Coach George Powles speaks with McClymonds High School basketball players Frank Robinson and Brady Hord. January 8, 1953. Legendary McClymonds High School coach George Powles provided some last minute tips ...
Posted August 3, 2018 from The New York Times Ron Dellums, the son of a longshoreman who became one of America’s best-known black congressmen, a California Democrat with a left-wing ...
Memorial video first presented May 9, 2019 at memorial services for Congressmember Ron Dellums at the Metropolitan African American Methodist Church in Washington, D.C.
Ron Dellums, Congressman/Mayor, West Oakland Elder/Pioneer, and my childhood friend Ed Howard the Producer/Director Filming RonDellums in 1971 in his first campaign to be a congressman and at DeFremery Park. ...
Posted February 18, 2021 from The Oaklandside — By Amir Aziz — Residents, activists, city officials, and community leaders gathered in West Oakland on Wednesday to dedicate a three-block section ...
Oakland native Dennis Pete pictured at right in Los Angeles Times article during demonstration on the steps of the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland.
Dennis Pete is one of the older brothers of Inner Circle owner Geoffrey Pete. During the late 1960's, when the Black Panther Party was forming and recruiting young militant Black ...
It is a fact of American life that when African Americans dominate the landscape in a particular endeavor, they often find that the rules are suddenly changed midstream in order to ...
Oakland Civil Rights Attorney John Burris is known for his high profile courtroom battles but another passion is mentoring youth. Originally aired February 14, 2018 on KTVU Click here to ...
John Burris casts a long shadow both in person and in civil rights law. In 2005 and 2009 he was named one of Californias leading 100 attorneys by the Los ...
Posted May 10, 2019 from the East Bay Times — Ruth Beckford, the legendary dancer, choreographer and Oakland community activist, died May 8 of natural causes. She was 93. Beckford ...
June 1, 2010 East Bay News Group Esther Mabry, owner and namesake of legendary Esther’s Orbit Room in West Oakland, where blues greats such as B.B. King, Lowell Fulson, Al ...
Statement by Geoffrey Pete on the death of Edwin Hawkins The richness of a city is defined by the historical nature of its culture and people. Without these enduring markers, ...
Harold "Slim" Jenkins was an African American entrepreneur and owner of the renowned Slim Jenkins Supper Club in Oakland, California, made popular during the 1930s to 1960s. Jenkins was born July 22, 1890 ...
Reid's Records of Berkeley and Oakland is one of the founding institutions of the Oaktown Sound. INTRODUCTION By Betty Reid Soskin The Story of Reid’s is the story of many ...
Reid's Records of Berkeley and Oakland is one of the founding institutions of the Oaktown Sound October 6, 2010 NPR Music "I learned to read record labels before I learned ...
Posted January 14, 2021 from Outrider — From her first days in Washington, her policy outlook stemmed from Black revolutionary ideas and street activism, something you’ll almost never find in ...
Posted March 4, 2019 from the newsletter of the African American Library & Museum of Oakland — By Marco Frazier The end of February, beginning of March marks the anniversary of ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oakland native Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American film director and screenwriter. His first feature film, Fruitvale Station (2013), won the top ...
Minstrel Shows were a form of entertainment that included white actors in "blackface". These actors were portraying African-Americans and used stereotypes to label them as unintelligent and not to be ...
From the February 9, 2020 The Guardian — It was the era of apartheid in South Africa, the civil rights movement in America and women’s liberation in Britain. And they ...
Posted September 8, 2020 from In The Balance — Susan Lambert talks with Betty Reid Soskin about fighting injustice, following your truth and making every moment count in this beautiful ...
The point of our video is not to promote racism or to make fun of this issue, but to show how pervasive and institutionalized racism was in our culture just ...
They were overworked, underpaid and demeaned, but generations of porters on the Pullman Palace Car Company helped promote the rights and futures of African Americans. From The History Channel — ...
Posted July 31, 2020 from The Guardian — By Barack Obama — In a transcript of his remarks at the congressman’s funeral, the former president calls on Americans to follow ...
"Minstrel" was America's original entertainment form, and arguably its most racist. In its beginnings in the 19th century, white groups put on elaborate shows supposedly modeled after Black speech and ...
Posted September 7, 2020 from Tidal — By Lee Mergner — There’s a young man, Aidan Levy, who is writing a biography on you. How are you going to feel ...
Posted February 9, 2020 from The New Yorker — By Richard Brody Some of the best offerings in 2016 New York Film Festival were documentaries. The festival opened with Ava DuVernay’s ...
Oakland's Edwin Hawkins Singers As directors of music at their Berkeley church, the Ephesian Church of God in Christ, Edwin Hawkins (b. August 1943, Oakland, California, USA) and Betty Watson ...
The Natural Four Artist Biography by Andrew Hamilton From allmusic.com The Natural Four began their quest for stardom in Oakland, CA, in the mid-'60s, landing their first deal with a local outfit ...
Oakland's own Rosie Gaines is an American singer and musician. After releasing her first album Caring, she was hired by Prince as a singer, vocalist and keyboard player for the ...
Ise Lyfe (pronounced "Ice Life"), born Isaac Patrick-Francis Brown, is a spoken word and hip-hop artist as well as an educator, community organizer, and activist in his native Oakland, California. He won ...
Artist Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine While hip-hop was consumed by the hardcore, noisy political rap of Public Enemy and the gangsta rap of N.W.A., Digital Underground sneaked out of Oakland with their bizarre, funky homage ...
Posted May 20, 2020 from The Ringer — By Rebecca Bodenheimer — On February 12, 1990, rapper MC Hammer released his third album, Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt Em. Thanks to ...
Artist Biography by John Bush Born in Los Angeles, but an Oakland resident by the age of 14, Too Short was the first West Coast rap star, recording three albums on his own ...
Clinton Park is an Oakland neighborhood in the flatlands just east of Lake Merritt. In 1955, Clinton was home to one of the first federal urban renewal projects in the ...
“When I took the [manager] job in Cleveland, there was little time for me to think about repercussions. I made the right move, though. The barrier was broken, and if ...
Don Barksdale was the first African American to play on the U.S. Olympic basketball team. Unfortunately, the pro's did not allow black players at that time so he had to ...
Professional baseball player Rickey Henderson set the single-season and career records for stolen bases over his 25-year Hall-of-Fame career. “Yes, I'm a hot dog. Yes, I'm a showman. But remember, ...
From SimplyBasketball.com Many fantastic hoopers have their roots in NorCal. All-time NBA greats like Bill Russell and Jason Kidd grew up in the Bay, setting a foundation for the current ...
Oakland native Damian Lamonte Ollie Lillard (born July 15, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college ...
From The Katy Trail Weekly — By David Mullen — My next-door neighbor growing up in Oakland was a short, Italian man named Frank Russo, a wealth of information on ...
Published on September 11th, 2015 on ballislife.com by David Astramskas Wiki will tell you his birthday was yesterday but Demetrius “Hook” Mitchell has today as his birthday on Facebook so I’m wishing ...
Wikipedia Brian Keith Shaw (born March 22, 1966) is an American retired professional basketball player and former head coach for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He ...