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Bonnie Pointer: Dead At 69
Posted June 9, 2020 from TMZ — Bonnie Pointer of Oakland's The Pointer Sisters has died ... TMZ has learned. The Grammy-winning Motown artist, who ... -
Flood opened the floodgates
From The Katy Trail Weekly — By David Mullen — My next-door neighbor growing up in Oakland was a short, Italian man named Frank Russo, ... -
Bay Rising: Oakland Music’s Moment in the Sun, 30 Years Later
Posted May 20, 2020 from The Ringer — By Rebecca Bodenheimer — On February 12, 1990, rapper MC Hammer released his third album, Please Hammer, ... -
A Message To Geoffrey's Inner Circle Friends And Family From Geoffrey Pete
Dear Friends And Family: Late last month, following both state and city orders and guidelines, and in the hopes we could help in slowing the ... -
a Graphic Novelist Follows the Bouncing Ball at Bishop O'Dowd
Posted April 6, 2020 from The New York Times — Review by Jerry Craft — Like “American Born Chinese” — his groundbreaking 2006 Y.A. debut, and ... -
VADA PINSON – UNDERRATED AND OVERSHADOWED
By Bill Gutman “Vada never got the recognition; he never got any recognition at all. But not one time did I ever hear Vada badmouth anybody ... -
Dorothy Pete: Her Life In Her Own Words
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 ... -
A Short History Of The Pullman Porters
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. ...
