By Lee Hubbard The women of Bethel AME Church will honor first lady, Florence Boyd the wife of Pastor J Edgar Boyd, with a luncheon Saturday July 16. The luncheon will take place at Bethel at 916 Laguna Street at Browning Fellowship Hall, with the theme being “Women Honoring Women.” “We thought this [...]
By David Scott Who gets called when someone gets shot? Who is first on the scene with the medical team to minister and console gunshot victims and their families? Ministers are called to provide pastoral duties in emergencies alongside the triage medical teams and law enforcement officers. In recognition of the role pastors play in [...]
By Post Staff When the court announced that 43,000 prisoners would be given an early release there were some mixed responses such as “A rapture, not a capture, for prisoners?” or, “Have mercy, what can we do to help them help themselves?” But the Center Point Oakland Day Reporting Center (Oakland DRC) has some answers [...]
By Paul Cobb Singer Freda Payne is related to Oaklander Ann Williams. They age first cousins. During Payne’s recent performance at Yoshi’s San Francisco, she with her Oakland extended family for dinner, fun and reminiscing. Ann’s mother Ozeree Farley Williams and Freda’s father Samuel Farley are sister and brother who hail from Winnfield, Louisiana. Ann’s [...]
By Jesse Allen-Taylor The release of the latest U.S. Census figures sparked a lot of buzz about the sharp decline of African-Americans in the City of Oakland. Missing from the discussion-but in some ways just as important-is the withering away of African-Americans from Oakland’s past. In the officially recognized version of Oakland’s past, at least. [...]
