Equal Rights/Equity
Kaplan Wins City Disparity Study
Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity Study will examine city’s practices of contracting with Black- and women-owned businesses Mayoral candidate…
New Restaurants: Does Their Workforce Looks Like Oakland?
Posted in Business, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Labor By Post Staff Like a lot of Oaklanders, Professor Kitty Kelly Epstein, likes to…
Attorneys Burris and Chanin Meet with Community to “Sustain” Police Accountability
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety By Ken A. Epstein Two leading local civil rights attorneys, John Burris and Jim…
Councilmember Noel Gallo Calls for Support for Migrant Children
Posted in Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Immigrant Rights, World News By Ken A. Epstein Councilmember Noel Gallo, who represents the Fruitvale District, is…
Two More Measures on November Ballot? Why Not Police Accountability?
Posted in Elections & Voting Rights, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety By Ken Epstein When a community coalition sought the city council…
Council Members Kill Police Accountability Measure
Posted in Community, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety, Politics By Ken A. Epstein A push by a community coalition asking the Oakland City…
OPD Close to Full Compliance on Court-ordered Reforms
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety But the department still has much work to do to “institutionalize” progress By Ken…
Larry Moore’s Three-Decade Fight for Justice
Posted in Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety “This adversity has made a stronger individual out of me, and I continue fighting…
Educator Denise Saddler Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Posted in Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity By Post Staff Dr. Denise Saddler, former principal and administrator in the Oakland Unified School…
Defeating Strom
Posted in Commentary, Community, Equal Rights/Equity The year we saved the Voting Rights Act By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor By the fall…