Marking a decade of community gardening, about 225 people came from across the Bay Area to the Craneway Pavilion on Saturday, Oct. 3 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the non-profit Urban Tilth....

Five hours of sleep. Six hours of school. Two hours of community service because you can’t get into college unless you’ve raised money for a Third World country. Another five hours of homework because you thought you would be able to handle four AP classes. ...

Attorney General Loretta Lynch visited Richmond on Sept. 25 as part of a six-city tour. While she was here, she heard directly from young people about how to make improvements in the way police interact with the community....

Interview, RP Editors Editor’s Note: Richmond High School tutor Ivan Rodriguez helps more than 100 students who don’t speak English understand their teachers and get through high school. Most of the students are from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico...

by Karina Guadalupe Donald Trump’s comments about undocumented immigrants have opened the door for racism to come out of the closet — and remind us that it has always been there. But anyone interested in fact-checking his statements will find that they are just plain wrong. ...

From the Pulse News Desk Annual North Richmond Shoreline Festival The North Richmond Shoreline Festival returns for its 12th year from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Point Pinole Regional Shoreline park, featuring food, music, train rides, fire engine exploration, organized nature walks and bird watching led...

By Khalid Elahi After losing only four football games in six years as a coach, I've lost two games in the last two weeks. It made me realize that sometimes you learn more from losses than wins...

 YouthWire, Commentary, Various Authors, Posted: Sep 25, 2015 Ed. Note: The Pope’s visit to the United States comes as the U.S. Catholic Church is undergoing a dramatic shift driven in large part by demographic changes happening across the nation. Today’s Catholic heart of America lies in the West, in places like California’s Central Valley,...

Commentary, Claudia Gonzalez | We'Ced After years of litigation and protests, earlier this month California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation agreed to drastically reduce the use of solitary confinement in state prisons. But as prison and human rights advocates celebrated the victory, the legislature put on hold a bill that would...

By Melvin Willis Contra Costa County supervisors voted 4-1 on Sept. 22 to enact a new pilot program that -- pending matching funds from local hospitals -- would provide health care coverage to potentially thousands of undocumented immigrants for the next year....

Commentary, Keisa Reynolds Former tennis star James Blake was a victim of excessive force at the hands of a New York police officer. Blake was standing outside of Grand Hyatt Hotel, where he was staying for the US Open Tennis Championships, when he was unexpectedly knocked to the ground by a...

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