Tan DaGod was hosting the launch event for her beauty supply store, Glamor Beauty, when the incident occurred, according to authorities.
Oakland city council member Treva Reid revealed that out of 1500 people missing in total throughout the city, 400 were Black women.
Ayesha shared that inspiration for the concept came from the desire to provide the community's children with the resources needed to feel energized and academically engaged.
A sculpture honoring the life of Breonna Taylor was smashed in what many believe was a racial attack in downtown Oakland.
John Lee Cowell, 29, will live out his life behind bars for the tragic fatal stabbing of Nia Wilson, an 18-year-old Bay area teen.
(News One) — When you watch much of the news coverage on the reaction to the Oscar Grant/Johannes Mehserle verdict, you hear more about the looting, vandalism, and so-called “rioting,” creating this sense of a violent and destructive atmosphere. Even though some of the news coverage has stated as an aside the rally started off peaceful, […]
(Jack & Jill Politics) — Local news ABC7 is saying that 75% of those arrested for stirring up trouble were from outside the Oakland area. The police are calling them “anarchists”. The people of Oakland are peaceful and it only takes a few people to agitate and inflame tensions. Businesses were attacked despite the Grant family’s […]
(MercuryNews) As Your Black Muslim Bakery teetered on financial collapse in the spring of 2007, Yusuf Bey IV bragged that robbing an East Oakland drug dealer known for wearing white suits and driving a Mercedes-Benz would net the business a $500,000 windfall, his half-brother, Yusuf Bey V, testified Monday. When Bey IV led four of […]