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....
23 Aug
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....
08 Aug
How Hate Reaches a Tipping Point – Mexicans on the Menu
You’d see this phenomenon in prison. A guy in H-Unit would get beat down real bad with a heavy weight belt and get sent to the hospital with eye damage...
05 Aug
Fourth Friday Transforms Unity Park
Tacos Tacos y Tacos! owner Walter Williams started thinking about opening up a pop-up taco stand last December, and during May’s Fourth Friday in the Park celebration at Unity Park,...
