The Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library is offering a free seed-saving class from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 30, to teach the community about how to successfully save seeds from produce you've grown (or would like to grow) in your garden.

Matú Feliciano is an elder. She knows it, claims it, understands it. The weight of it, the mass, the influence - the experience has power. 

More than 90 girls of color from around the Bay Area gathered at the inaugural G.U.R.L.S. Rock Summit Saturday, eager to learn and to be a part of a larger community. While entering the summit, I noticed that many of the girls were chit-chatting amongst themselves.

As recently as 1995, poetry used to be a bad word … at least in these parts.

Poetry was for sissies. It had the rather corny, outdated image of "roses are red and violets are blue ... ." As president of the International Black Writers & Artists in Oakland, Local #5, I vowed to change that image, even if I had to be a Black Elvis Presley and do it all by myself!

During the last eight years, there hasn’t been much to cheer about for Oakland Raider fans.  The one consistent bright spot over the past seven consecutive losing seasons? The Raiderettes.  Football’s Fabulous Females, as they are often referred to, have been a silver-and-black lining to the storm clouds that have covered the franchise since its last trip to the playoffs, way back in 2002.

It's Friday - time to let the hot blue flames lick you into a literary frenzy. And Femmes on Fire will take you there! 

Being one of a few women in a male-dominated rap music industry - in one of the most independent music capitols of the world - can be overwhelming. Not for singer-songwriter Netta Brielle.

Food always has a way of gathering people together, and oftentimes, uniting them as one – like family. This very concept is being used by local organizations, to feed mouths and ultimately to feed minds.

The West Oakland Education Brain Trust was established in 2009 to sustain and strengthen the varied assets of West Oakland families, community members and neighborhoods.

One person’s cast-offs are often another person’s treasures.

More than 40 residents attended a meeting last week to see two preliminary design concepts for a long-term road improvement project that would increase the safety on MacArthur Boulevard between Seminary Avenue and High Street.

The inwardly delicate nature of outwardly courageous people always surprises me, no matter how many times I notice it in myself and others. Philip Huang is fearless, balls out, practical cynicism.