Rap music has long been a voice for struggle triumph and everyday life, but one Oakland record label is using it to create something deeper.

Billie Joe Armstrong spent most of last summer slamming the Oakland A’s in protest of their impending move to Las Vegas. Now, the Green Day frontman has found a new East Bay baseball team to throw his ...

A new and colorful smashburger joint has opened in West Oakland, and it is proving popular already.

The Oakland Ballers on Wednesday announced that two Bay Area music icons were joining the team's ownership group with the ...

On this date in 1990, Oakland rap superstar MC Hammer released his third studio album, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ’Em, through Capitol Records. Fueled by the massive success of “U Can’t ...

An organization dedicated to the academic development of Black youth records a profanity-free hip-hop album Their West Oakland studio is located in an historic area once dubbed 'Harlem of the West ...

Named after the iconic 1987 Oakland hip-hop track from Too Short, “Freaky Tales” is the latest film from Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the husband-and-wife directing team behind “Captain Marvel.” ...

Rap music has long been a voice for struggle triumph and everyday life, but one Oakland record label is using it to create something deeper. 24-year-old Alonzo Henderson is doing something you don ...