Month: August 2015

Volunteers distributing backpacks to children

OUSD Gets Ready for Start of School – Monday, Aug. 24

Posted in Community, Education/Schools/Youth Oakland, other districts, struggle to hire in face of teacher shortage Oakland Natives Give Back provided…

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Voting Rights Restored to Thousands of Californians

Posted in Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, voting rights By withdrawing a challenge to the voting rights of the formerly incarcerated and some…

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Post Publisher Calls for New Voting Rights Movement

Posted in Elections & Voting Rights, Equal Rights/Equity, voting rights By Post Staff  Fifty years ago, Post Publisher Paul Cobb went…

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Remembering Post Founder Thomas L. Berkley

Posted in History and remembering, Media Thomas Lucius Berkley, 1915–2001, was founder and publisher the Post News Group, as well…

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Colorful Oakland mural depicting community scenes

Oakland Awards Nearly $1 Million in Public Arts Grants

Developers Sue City Over 1 Percent Arts Requirement The Alice Street Mural located at 14th and Alice…

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Developer Loses Financial Backer for East 12th Street Luxury Apartments

By Post Staff UrbanCore Development has lost it financial backer after the City of Oakland agreed to…

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Diversity Within OPD Still Falls Short

Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Oakland Job Programs, Police-Public Safety Disparities in hirng of Asians, Blacks and Latinos; Blacks most underrepresented By…

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OPD Efforts to Recruit African Americans Yield Meager Results

Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Oakland Job Programs, Police-Public Safety By Ashley Chambers and Dakotah Jennifer Recent efforts by the Oakland Police…

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Eighth Anniversary of Assassination of Post Editor Chauncey Bailey

Posted in Community, History and remembering, Media By Ken Epstein Post News Group Editor Chauncey Bailey was murdered Aug. 2, 2007…

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McClymonds High’s Centennial Honors 100-Year Old Alum, Reignites Fight Save School

Posted in Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Gentrification, History and remembering, Media By Ashley Chambers The oldest known living graduate of McCylmonds High School, Inez Gray-Harvey,…

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