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Freedom Bus rolls into Kennedy High
John F. Kennedy High School students, parents and teachers got a first-person history of the Freedom Rides when Alameda Contra Costa Transit District’s Freedom Bus rolled up at the school Thursday....
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Part 2: North Richmond’s inauspicious beginnings
The North Richmond of today emerges from a history marked by bad reputation, bad luck and, often, bad intentions.
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David Gray: Intrepid intern makes mark at City Hall
City Council office intern David Gray has used his small opportunity to make a big impact in Richmond.
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Fred Jackson, North Richmond leader, dead at 73
As odes from well-wishers flow from Washington D.C. to the Bay Area, North Richmond mourns one of its greatest products. Fred Jackson was born in rural Mississippi and came to the Bay Area in 1950....
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A North Richmond tribute to the man, the ‘Fred Jackson Way’
As one of the dozens of buoyant well-wishers put it Thursday night, these services didn’t have the feel of a funeral – there was too much joy in the room.
View ArticleBudget cuts cut court interpreters
After the Contra Costa Superior Court decided last month to adopt a plan that cuts $7 million from its annual budget, it will no longer pay for interpreters in domestic violence cases beyond this fall.
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City Council Election 2012: Nat Bates
In the summer of 1975, Richmond Councilman Nat Bates received a call from Ben Brown, a Democratic campaign organizer in Atlanta. Brown needed Bates’ support rallying African American voters behind his...
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‘The War at Home’ debuts in Richmond
As a high school theater student, Michelle Wells was told that there was no place for the type of stories she wanted to tell. So she left her hometown and traveled around the world. Now, back home in...
View ArticleRichmond’s former prisoners get out the vote
This year, California had the largest number of people registered to vote in the state’s history, with nearly 20 million ready to hit today’s polls. Formerly incarcerated people in Richmond, some of...
View ArticleMike “Racoon Eyes” Kinney: Sobriety as a Native American
“Culture is prevention,” he says. “Many native people have turned to alcohol because of the inability to grieve and address the historical trauma of losing their culture, language and spirituality....
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