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Wednesday morning the words “f**k black people” were found chalked on sidewalk outside the Otter Express. This follows an incident the night before where an African American student was called the N-word by a student she did not know who later claimed to be “joking.” The hateful words of Wednesday morning underscore that racial insensitivity is never a joke. Racism must never be taken lightly. By Thursday night, members from all racial communities came together in solidarity with the African ...

Documentation of the annual Spring Equinox celebration in Ancient Africa. Charting the sun, moon and stars help to provide the notion of measuring Black Agriculture, and a nationwide census. Black Agriculture in the 21st Century is the foundation of Black Culture and once the Black Agenda leaders embrace the wisdom from the "Garden of Eden" then we will move beyond a 3/5ths notion of "We Count" as a forecast enumeration of Census 2010....

The African Peoples Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) announces Uhuru Pies 2010, the 30th annual Uhuru Pies™ holiday sale fundraiser. From November 19 – November 24, Uhuru Pies will offer five gourmet pie flavors on sale for $12 - $20 each in Northern California. Join us this year as we roll up our sleeves, get busy! Attend the launch meeting on March 28, at World Ground Café (back room), 3726 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland California 94619. The launch meeting takes place from 10 am to noon....

" No Cuts, No Freeze, Education Must be Free!" Thousands of students, teachers and members of different communities all over California turned out for massive protests in different schools and colleges against education cuts, the most recent attack of the ruling class against the people of the United States. In Los Angeles, more than 3,000 protestors led by the UTLA and supported by different community organizations like ANSWER-LA and Not In Our Name Coalition marched from Pershing Square/Hil...

University of California, Santa Cruz— The protest held Wednesday afternoon, February 24, 2010 came in response to racially themed parties held at UCs San Diego and Santa Barbara, and in response to the state of diversity at UC Santa Cruz. REAL PAIN. REAL ACTION....

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed the community - more the community living in and around Hunters Point Shipyard. In the year 2000 there was a hazardous fire that raged for a month and the EPA failed the community. At Parcel A - Lennar a Rogue Developer to date has continued to bombard the community - backed by Mayor Gavin Newsom, the SF Public Health Department, the Mayor's Office of Economic Development and SF Redevelopment Agency for the last four years - plus....

McClatchy Newspapers based in Sacramento, California had little problem advertising the sale of enslaved human beings, on in the day. California Black Farmers continue to suffer the ongoing impacts from the "Last Plantation" United States Department of Agriculture. Bipartisan California Congressional leadership will weigh in on the proposed settlement of Pigford II. Consideration for ongoing systemic institutional racism in the #1 agriculture region in our nation may be year's away. Blac...

Three Oakland parking enforcement whistleblowers have come forward to reveal that the city has been issuing "courtesy notices" to some of its wealthiest residents in the Montclair and Broadway Terrace neighborhoods while everyone else has been getting actual parking tickets with fines up to $100. This is the result of a July 24th, 2009, directive by Ronald Abernathy, a senior parking enforcement supervisor. The cash-strapped city has been targeting its lower income neighborhoods to make up ...

At Johannes Mehserle's second pre-trial hearing in Los Angeles, the LA Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant again demonstrated against racist police violence in front of the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse. After the hearing, several community activists were individually interviewed by assorted corporate media, family lawyer John Burris gave a public statement and answered questions for the corporate media, and the LA Coalition held a press conference that included Los Angeles victims of p...

At Johannes Mehserle's second pre-trial hearing in Los Angeles, the LA Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant again demonstrated against racist police violence in front of the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse. Mehserle himself was rushed into and out of an underground parking garage in a black SUV with dark-tinted windows. Inside the court room, both of Mehserle's defense motions -- to reduce bail and to remove the Alameda DA's office from the case -- were denied by Judge Perry. After the he...