Equal Rights/Equity
Black Students Demand School District Take Steps to Reduce Racism at Berkeley High
Posted in Berkeley, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Ferguson/Black Lives Matter, Labor, Racial profiling By Ken Epstein In the wake of a racist, violent threat and…
Oakland School District’s Catalog Promotes Charters That Exclude Special Needs Students
Posted in Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity By Ken Epstein The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) for the first time has included…
Anger Grows in Wake of Police Killing of Mario Woods
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling Video reveals six officers shot man with knife up against the wall By…
In Face of Community Pressure, D.A. Drops Case Against Black Friday 14
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Ferguson/Black Lives Matter, Racial profiling By Post Staff Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley finally dropped criminal…
Community Objects to Privately Funded OUSD Enrollment Reform
Posted in Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Labor By Ken A. Epstein Members of the Board of Education and community activists are raising…
Berkeley NAACP Calls on BUSD to Investigate Discrimination Against Employees, Students
Berkeley High School By Ken Epstein Manour Id-Deen, president of the Berkeley NAACP, met recently with Berkeley…
Oakland Steps Out for Faith with a Joyful Noise
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Community, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, History and remembering, Housing/Foreclosures, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling On Saturday, Nov. 7, churches and community…
Racism in Berkeley Schools “Has Been Tolerated for Too Long,” Say Community Leaders
Posted in Berkeley, Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Ferguson/Black Lives Matter, Responsive Government Berkeley High School students walked out of school Nov. 5 after a…
New Biography of Loren Miller, Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist
Posted in Arts and Culture, Equal Rights/Equity, History and remembering Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights…
Gentrification Threatens Oakland Churches and Artists
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Community, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Oakland Job Programs, Racial profiling, Restorative Justice Coalition of faith-based, housing and cultural groups…