20 Nov

Many nonprofits will see an increase in gifts from individuals over the next few weeks. Some will be from faithful annual donors. Others may respond for the first time to your year-end appeal. Still others will feel an emotional tug on their heart strings and impulsively give online. As you...

17 Nov

A 21-year-old Native American activist from Richmond was chosen from among thousands of applicants to go to the White House this summer. Isabella Zizi, a Northern Cheyenne, Arikara and Muskogee Creek Native, attended the first-ever White House Tribal Youth Gathering on July 9....

12 Nov

The traditional Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, was brought to life November 1 and 2 at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond...

12 Nov

A new report linking processed meat to cancer hits close to home in Richmond, where fast food is easy to come by. Writers Ronvel Sharper and Karina Guadalupe say this new information makes them want to change their own eating habits. But it won’t be easy....

09 Nov

Closed for nearly a year and a half, the Richmond Swim Center at 4300 Cutting Blvd., next to Kennedy High School, has reopened. Classes will resume in 2016....

08 Nov

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a report with information that many of us—but certainly not enough—already knew: having herpes is very common. WHO estimates two-thirds, or 67 percent, of the population under 50 years old are living with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). ...

06 Nov

So what do you do when everybody's scared and everybody's got a gun? Good question. And what do I say to the kids who are smart enough to look at everybody else and see that everybody else's justification--to protect themselves--is pretty much the same as theirs?...

04 Nov

Her heart rate starts rising. Her hands begin to sweat and shake. She paces back and forth. “I feel like something is going to happen to me but nothing is really there,” she says. “[I tell myself,] ‘There is nothing wrong. It’s okay. This is just your body being weird again.’” This...

02 Nov

District officials are hoping the merger of two West Contra Costa schools into a new high school with more academic and behavioral resources will give students the edge they need to succeed. But the move in September to combine Gompers and North Campus continuation high schools into the new Sylvester...

02 Nov

Nota del Editor: El tutor Iván Rodríguez de Richmond High School ayuda a más de 100 estudiantes que no hablan inglés entender a sus maestros y sobrevivir la high school. La mayoría de los estudiantes son de El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y México....

27 Oct

African immigrants in the Bay Area are upset that many of them have to go through a secondary review process in order to apply for a California driver’s license under AB 60. But DMV officials say the reason some countries don’t appear on the list of acceptable passports has to do...

26 Oct

For Kerry Walls, carrying the weight of a decade-old drug related felony was exhausting. A recent call to the Contra Costa Public Defender’s office offered a ray of hope. Walls was told he was eligible to have his two drug-related felonies cleared through California’s Prop 47, a measure passed last...

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