Following Complaint, ‘Comalli’ Still Burns Hot
On most days, Martin Gonzalez works outside his home at the corner of Amador Street and Solano Avenue in Richmond doing something he never thought he would be - cooking...
14 Oct
13 Oct
Allegro Brings 25 Years of Dance to Richmond
The Allegro Ballroom and Club Dancing celebrated its 25-year anniversary on Sept. 28 by opening a brand new 12,000-square-foot facility at 12012 San Pablo Ave. in Richmond....
23 Aug
Local Happenings: September 2019
The official groundbreaking ceremony for the RYSE Commons, featuring music, live performances and food, will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, at 205 41st Street, Richmond....
21 Aug
Block Party Brings Services to the People
As the summer sun set over the Richmond sky, Jenna Galvan-Speers gave U.S. military veterans information about benefits available to them....
19 Aug
Remembering the Victims: Cops Have Killed 107 Black Californians Using Deadly Force Since 2015
In May, less than a week after the Assembly approved the landmark bill that Black Legislative Caucus chair Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) authored, police officers in Walnut Creek, a suburb...
19 Aug
California Now Has One of the Strongest Police Use-of-Force Laws In the Country
Today Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law one of the strongest measures in the country intended to deter police officers from killing civilians while pursuing criminal suspects....
17 Aug
Te’s Corner: Waking Up, Staying Awake
No matter how conscious your mind, if your heart and soul are not alive with love, being awake could drive you mad crazy....
16 Aug
Panel Talks Immigration, white supremacists, Shootings
In the wake of more domestic terrorist attacks, U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier held a town hall meeting in Richmond to discuss immigration issues....
15 Aug
Q&A With Richmond Based Artist Marjé
Marjé Kilpatrick is a 23-year-old Richmond-based spoken word artist and performer. “Groomed by melodies, rhythm, poetry, and expression,”...
13 Aug
Immigrant Advocates Oppose New ‘Public Charge’ Rule
Opponents of the Trump administration’s new "public charge" rule are hoping lawmakers or a lawsuit will block it before it’s implemented, as immigrant advocates say it could prevent millions of...
13 Aug
Working, But Still Homeless, in California
When Coleen Sykes Ray started an organization with her daughter in 2015 to help homeless women, the Stockton, California resident had no idea she, too, would be homeless four years...
13 Aug
Video Games Blamed for Mass Shootings Yet Again
The recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton again left people searching for answers. President Donald Trump and others blamed the violence on video games, invoking a decades-old trope...
11 Aug
Journalists Lament Big Tech’s Footprint on News
The tech industry is eating the newspaper industry’s lunch and skipping out on the bill, according to current and former news executives, reporters and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier, who spoke on...
11 Aug
Benefitting from Mad City Money
In high school, I learned some financial literacy skills, like how interest works, how to fill out tax paperwork, and how insurance can cover different things. I spent about half...
08 Aug
Tulsi Gabbard says U.S. Needs Diplomacy, Not War
Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard says the U.S. needs far more sophisticated worldwide diplomatic efforts and a far less aggressive U.S. military stance....
