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The city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, planned several events in honor of Black History Month.
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Morning spring practices, grueling summer workouts and a competitive fall camp filled with newcomers and established veterans alike have finally led to this.
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The Rev. E. E. Cleveland, minister of the church, told a story about a man trying to get a cool drink of water from a spring muddied by a dead hog. “You never get a cool drink of water until you get the hog out of the spring … You must get the hate out of your hearts,” he urged.
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I — like Chancellor Carol Christ and Vice Chancellor Oscar Dubón Jr. — am a staunch supporter of free speech and honor the university’s commitment to this constitutional right. I wish to suggest, however, as the university moves forward, that administrators devote an equal commitment of time, money and energy
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In a new development in a 2010 murder case, defendant Coleon Lee Carroll pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Feb. 22.
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Sylvia McLaughlin, a lifelong Berkeley environmental activist whose work helped preserve the integrity of the San Francisco Bay, passed away in her home Tuesday. She was 99.
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Berkeley chef and local food activist Alice Waters was honored by President Barack Obama at the White House as a recipient of a National Humanities Medal on Thursday.
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The 1980s were a golden age of merchandising. Giants such as Hasbro and Bandai rolled a juggernaut of plastic toys into the market and cleverly backed them with television shows that could sell the toys without being commercials. Kids watched the shows and then clamored for Transformers, for Strawberry Shortcake
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Twentyfourth Street was barren. Two 25-foot photographs pasted on the side of the New Parkway Theater in Oakland were torn asunder. Their faces incomplete, half-formed, had been disfigured by the rain, the tattered remnants swung idly to and fro, like paper pendulums signaling the apocalyptic end of an uproarious revolutionary
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UC President Mark Yudof announced Tuesday that he will launch a systemwide investigation into policing protocol on all 10 UC campuses in an effort to identify and amend policy in respect to protests. Yudof said he intends to provide a comprehensive report of what happened Nov. 18 at UC Davis,
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