For the last eight years, the Oakland Raiders have lived in the basement of their division. But fans are still loyal to this team. A report from The Black Hole.

OPT (Oakland Parents Together) and Councilmember Nancy Nadel’s office are spearheading a supply drive to benefit students at several schools. Can you help?

It’s been 90 years since the passage of the 19th Amendment, and Oakland’s Congresswoman Barbara Lee took a moment to reflect on the significance of the moment.

On August 28, 2010, girls of color take center stage at Oakland City Hall. Attorney Raye Mitchell and Sheryl Grant describe the day-long program offering an exciting day that will change minds, change lives and quite literally, change the world. Listen here to the KPFA Morning Show interview with Aimee Allison aired on August 16, 2010.

Comedian Kamau Bell comes back to Oakland with his multiculti crew at The New Parish on Thursday. He’s blowing up and will open for Dick Gregory this weekend. See him while you can.

A recent move to hire Ebonics translators by the US Drug Enforcement Agency revives a national debate that started in Oakland in 1996.

The late summer heat has forced branches of the Oakland Public Library without air conditioning to close.

Media outlets reported today that local broadcast legend Dave McElhatton has died at the age of 81 in Southern California. His remarkable, half-century career emcompassed twenty-five years as a radio announcer at KCBS Radio, followed by an additional twenty-five years as a television anchor for the CBS-5 news. An Oakland native, “Mac” graduated from Fremont [...]

Nothing beats a classic hip hop show and MC Hammer brought it to the Art and Soul Festival in downtown Oakland this weekend.

Young founder of “Oakland Food Connection” shares his passion to fight the social inequality of inadequate access to nutritional food in the “flatlands”