01 Oct

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...

01 Oct

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...

25 Sep

 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,...

24 Sep

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...

23 Sep

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....

21 Sep

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...

18 Sep

By Keisa Reynolds After dreaming at a young age of opening a local business, longtime resident Liz Gonzalez finally opened Ritzy Reuben, a hair and beauty studio in Point Richmond. “It’s very rewarding to open a business in the city I grew up in. I am [trying] to bring something...

18 Sep

News Report, Nancy DeVille Richmond’s controversial rent control ordinance has hit a snag after the California Apartment Association submitted more than 7,000 signatures opposing the plan, a move that blocked it from becoming law....

16 Sep

The seventh annual Spirit & Soul Festival returns to downtown Richmond on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m....

11 Sep

By Ronvel Sharper The RYSE Youth Center in Richmond was filled with electric energy last month when over 200 people came out to enjoy free food and entertainment by local rappers, dancers and spoken word artists at its sixth annual Back 2 School Summer Jam....

10 Sep

News Report, Viji Sundaram | New America Media A California health watchdog put e-cigarette manufacturers on alert on September 2, warning them that if they don’t recall the products they have sold on the California market within 60 days, they could be sued....

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