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Sacramento NAACP Celebrates 100 years & Advocacy
CLICK ON IMAGE to download special edition SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento Branch National Association for The Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), celebrating 100 years of service and advocacy, will...
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‘Ain’t I A Woman’ March Unites At State Capitol (VIDEO)
SACRAMENTO (CBM) – Black Women United a newly formed non-profit hosted the first Black Women’s March in Sacramento, July 15. Attendees marched from Crocker Park to the State Capitol and participants...
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Young Ladies Recognized As ‘Miss Black’ And ‘Miss Black Teen’ Sacramento
The new Black Queens of Sacramento. Savannah Sims, left, the daughter of Stephen Sims and Clarissa Wade, is Miss Black Sacramento. Imya Wade, right, the daughter of Rodney Price and Irish Price, is Ms....
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Sacramento gang crackdown brings 29 arrests, 211 seized guns
Modern weapon M4 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sacramento officials said Wednesday that they have made 29 arrests and seized 211 firearms as part of a crackdown on gang violence this month. The sweep was...
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City Council Holds Dialogue About Police-Involved Shooting
Ste’vonte Clark, the older brother of slain 22-year-old Stephon Clark, stands on a table in front of a packed City Hall Chambers during Tuesday night’s “Community Dialogue” with the Sacramento City...
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Sac PD Released Additional Audio and Video from Clark Shooting
SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento Police Department (SPD) on Monday released additional audio and video from the March 18 shooting death of Stephon Clark. The newly released material includes 23 in-car...
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OBSERVER Persons Of The Year — Stevante Clark
Stevante Clark, 26, stands in the backyard of his grandmother’s house where Stephon Clark was shot at 20 times by two Sacramento police officers. Clark rarely goes in the area since the shooting took...
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Students Walk Out Of Christian Brothers HS To Support Fired Principal
SACRAMENTO — Ofa Po’oi is a freshman at Christian Brothers High School in Oak Park and she loves what the school has to offer in terms of a quality education and the LaSallian values it teaches the...
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Living the Dream in Sacramento
(SACRAMENTO) – For some, the local March For The Dream is a yearly tradition, a trek they make along with their relatives, classmates, their churches or members of the social or community-based...
View ArticleSacramento Protests The Killing of George Floyd (VIDEO)
The OBSERVER was on the ground covering the Sacramento area protests over the murder of George Floyd. For ongoing coverage of the George Floyd case and community responses to it CLICK HERE
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Trump, Biden facing off on wildfires
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden are focusing the presidential campaign on the wildfire-scorched West Coast, with Trump meeting fire officials in California on...
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In Four Large Cities, California Homicides Increase
(CBM) – Los Angeles recorded over 300 homicides in 2020, a statistical high mark it had not reached in 11 years. Now, a little over a year later, the body count from that sharp homicide increase...
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In an effort to stress the importance of getting vaccinated, an area pastor...
Pastor Mark Meeks of City Church of Sacramento is strategically targeting ethnic groups in Oak Park and has volunteered his church as a vaccination site. Vaccinations started at City Church last...
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Sistahs on The Frontline: TANYA FAISON: A MODERN ABOLITIONIST
As president of the Sacramento Chapter of Black Lives Matter, Tanya Faison shut down one of Sacramento’s main highways in the wake of the police-involved shooting death of young father Stephon Clark...
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City Gets $1.8 Million For Cannabis Equity, But Issues Remain
SACRAMENTO – With issues still abound and inclusion slowly developing that would allow more local Black Americans in the industry, the City of Sacramento was awarded $1.8 million in state funding to...
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Sistahs on The Frontline: DR. FLOJAUNE COFER: A CHANGE AGENT
Flojaune Cofer was around eight years old when Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990. She’d seen the episode of the TV show “A Different World” that addressed Americans divesting from South...
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Del Paso Heights COVID Vaccine Clinic Puts Community First
While running a vaccination clinic in Del Paso Heights, Dr. Gina Warren was approached by a man who didn’t have an appointment. He told her that nine members of his family died of COVID-19. She got...
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Black Leaders, City Condemns Anti-Asian Violence
After repeated incidents in Sacramento and across the nation, the Sacramento City Council and Mayor Darrell Steinberg unanimously approved a proposed resolution to condemn and combat anti-Asian hate,...
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Questions Of Equity Cloud County COVID Vaccination Allocation
Since coronavirus vaccines became available in December, Sacramento County health officials have described their supply as “very limited.” As more people become eligible, there continues to be concern...
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Stephanie Bray To Leave United Way
Stephanie McLemore Bray, president and CEO of United Way California Capital Region, will leave her position in mid-April as she transitions to her new role as chief engagement officer for Seattle...
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