Someone who takes our picture represents us. Trust always comes into play, acknowledge it or not. "Reflections in Black," connected exhibitions at three Oakland venues, from the Smithsonian ...

Using photos she culled from the Oakland Library's History Room, and from dozens of people who, like Veirs, grew up in the area, Mailman assembled a book that chronicles neighborhoods of the ...

Thousands of people gathered at events at OMCA, Mosswood Park, and downtown. But road closures and heavy police presence also ...

About 3,000 people packed the Oakland Museum of California Thursday for the sold-out, second annual Hella Juneteenth festival ...

Jo Ann Harris was surprised to learn there wasn't a thorough written history of the Oakland area in northeast Haines City. So she decided to write a book about the place where she was born and raised.

In a year marked by cinematic diversity, Oakland-born filmmaker Ryan Coogler has made Academy Award history as part of the first all-Black producing team to be nominated for the best picture award ...

An Oakland native who narrowly won the race to lead the city was sworn in as its 49th mayor late Monday morning in a ceremony at the Fox Theater.

When Topeka artist Andy Valdivia finished his “Our History” mural at the Marlo Cuevas-Balandran Activity Center in September 2012, he thought he had done a pretty good job of telling the story ...