Mayor Quan's Newsletter: Black History Month Events In Oakland
Blog entry by Oakland Local edi....
Last updated at Sat, 11 Feb at 4:32am.

from Mayor Quan's Newsletter:

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Civil Rights legends Zellner, O'Dell to speak in Oakland - Feb. 9

Article by Debi Mason.
Last updated at Mon, 6 Feb at 6:49am.

The next installment in the Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture Series will feature civil-rights activist Dr. Bob Zellner and Jack O'Dell in an evening of shared dialogue on the state of the current civil rights  and social justice movement and the lessons learned from the movement during the 1960s.

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Oakland Local's top news stories: Feb. 26 - March 4
Article by Tehea Robie.
Last updated at Thu, 10 Mar at 7:14am.

Were you so busy keeping up with Charlie Sheen’s antics that you forgot to read local news?

No worries, it’s easy to get drunk with celebrity-silliness. We forgive you. In fact, OL has the very thing to keep you from getting a #winning hangover.

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Black History Month Feb 18-28 offers LOTS to see, do right here in Oakland this weekend!
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Mon, 28 Feb at 5:33am.

 What's happening for Black History Month in Oakland during the second half of this month? There's lots to see and do:

Friday, February 18, 2011
Black History Month Extravaganza
6925 International Blvd. in the Black Wall Street District
6p.m., Free Admission

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Black History Salute: David S. Johnson, 'Photographer of the Fillmore' (Community Voices)
Blog entry by Corey Olds.
Last updated at Mon, 21 Feb at 4:48pm.

Besides being “the premier chronicler of mid-century African-American life in San Francisco,” David S. Johnson (b.

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Black History Month poetry reading at Joyce Gordon Gallery Feb. 19
Blog entry by Oakland Local edi....
Last updated at Thu, 17 Feb at 9:29am.

On Saturday, Feb. 19, at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, the Journal of Pan African Studies is sponsoring a Poetry Reading with Bay Area poets who are  published in the poetry issue of the journal and members of Academy of da Corner Reader's Theatre.

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Black History Salute: 'First Lady of Journalism' Belva Davis shares life in new book
Blog entry by Corey Olds.
Last updated at Tue, 15 Feb at 8:30am.

“That’s the most relaxed woman I’ve ever seen at being perfect,” philanthropist and entrepreneur Camille Cosby said upon seeing TV newswoman Belva Davis in the late 1960s.  

What Cosby saw others soon experienced when in 1967, Davis became the first black woman TV reporter and anchor west of the Mississippi at KPIX (San Francisco).

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Black History Month: Who are Oaklanders we need to recognize? (Commentary)
Blog entry by Reginald James.
Last updated at Tue, 15 Feb at 8:20am.

Editor's Note:  Eric Arnold's piece on Why we should (still) recognize Black History Month has sparked some great discussion.  This short essay by Reginald James is one of the responses--for more--and to koin the discussion, read Eric's article.

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