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Nearly five-decade-old nonprofit overcomes financial hardship to host its 51st parade and festival ...

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Blood & Money Part One: The Violence Olasunkanmi Onipede should know a little something about torture. An immigrant from Nigeria, he left behind a country that by 1994 had fallen under the iron hand ...

One giant fraud spawns ten thousand smaller frauds — that was one of the major lessons of the foreclosure crisis. A relatively small number of mortgage lenders issued millions of toxic home loans in ...

As he tells the story, David Brock’s life changed profoundly one day during his sophomore year at the University of California at Berkeley. On that day, he began a journey that would eventually lead ...

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In 2011, Jessica Hollie, an Oakland native who goes by the name Bella Eiko, was a Chabot College student and award-winning speaker in the parliamentary debate league circuit when the Occupy Movement ...

In Alex Abramovich’s new book, Bullies: A Friendship, Trevor Latham, president of Oakland’s East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club, destroys a bus stop on Telegraph Avenue with a large ax. Glass shatters ...

At the back end of a two-acre nursery lot in Oakland’s Sobrante Park neighborhood, where 105th Avenue dead-ends into Highway 880 and Lisjan Creek (otherwise known as San Lorenzo Creek) twists north on ...

hen the great Islamic spiritual teacher and poet Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi died on December 17, 1273, in Konya in present-day Turkey, men from five different faiths followed his bier in tribute. The ...