The Reparations, Power, and Healing Convening in Oakland drew hundreds of Black leaders, students, and business owners to ...

OAKLAND, Calif ... located heavy industry and truck corridors around the area’s historically Black neighborhoods, according to a sitting city planner and documents reviewed by The Washington ...

These days, as many Black residents have left amid ... the community changed dramatically. Entire neighborhoods were bulldozed as West Oakland was surrounded by highways. An elevated BART train ...

Work on the Grove-Shafter Freeway, Interstate 980, near 14th and Brush Streets in Oakland on April 23, 1979. The Interstate 980 construction tore through historically Black neighborhoods.

Carolyn Johnson remembers her East Oakland childhood with both nostalgia and sorrow. There were the bustling small businesses and public parks she often went to, but the neighborhood was also ...

Oakland's Blackout Market gives needed boost to local small business 02:53 Small business owners are coming together in Oakland Friday and Saturday to create a marketplace on one of the busiest ...

But soon, the tiny space with a large history will once again sling hot dogs, its new tenant a prolific entrepreneur who ...

Barbara Lee is inaugurated as Oakland's 51st mayor, set to tackle the city's budget, public safety, and housing. She is the ...

that home — and all of Greater Bronzeville — represent the promise of Black neighborhoods in Chicago. Greater Bronzeville — Douglas, Grand Boulevard, Kenwood, Oakland and Washington Park ...