Girls in Tech - Los Angeles, CA

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Raiders finally ink Khalif Barnes

After a tumoultous on again off again flritation between the Oakland Raiders and Jacksonville Jaguars free agent offensive tackle Khalif Barnes, they have reached agreement one year deal.

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Inman: A's alienating fans with threat to leave Oakland

Wolff's opening line: "We have fully exhausted our time and resources over the years with the City of Oakland, dating back to previous A's ownership."Fully exhausted? OK, we catch the A's drift. Oakland is dead to them.If foam fingers came in the middle-finger variety, the A's just hoisted one from atop the Oakland Coliseum.

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Greatness at center an Oakland Raiders tradition

From the inaugural game in 1960 though three Super Bowl victories, a move to a new city, through the 1985 the Oakland Raiders started two men at center in Jim Otto and Dave Dalby.

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Monte Poole: Warriors' internal strife leads to chaos, collapse

More at Inside Bay Area: “BARON DAVIS, the former prince of Oracle Arena, makes his first appearance tonight as a Los Angeles Clipper in the facility where he once raised the Warriors from the dead.
For Warriors fans, the sight of Davis most assuredly will summon memories of the spring of 2007, when their favorite team blasted into the NBA playoffs for the first time since 1994 and, for two brilliant weeks, lit up the landscape.
"It's definitely like a homecoming," Davis said last week, anticipating his return to Oakland. "A lot of memories are there, and the adrenaline is going to be circulating. It'll be good to see a lot of familiar faces in the stands."”

Israeli forces shoot American activist Tristan Anderson

IWant Democracy Now -- US Consul General Says Awaiting Israeli Report on IDF Shooting of American Citizen

An American activist from Oakland, California was critically injured Friday when Israeli soldiers fired a tear gas canister directly at his head at the close of a weekly nonviolent protest against the wall in the West Bank village of Nalin. Thirty-seven-year old Tristan Anderson underwent brain surgery on Saturday, and parts of his right frontal lobe and shattered bone fragments were removed. He remains in critical condition. We go to the hospital in Tel Aviv to speak with Andersons partner, Gabrielle Silverman, and to Andrew Parker, the US Consul General in Tel Aviv.

Pastor Lucy Kolin from Oakland Community Organizations On CNN

Pastor Lucy Kolin - from PICO affiliate Oakland Community Organizations in California - appeared on CNN's Faces of Faith program to talk about PICO's "Recovery Express" cross-country caravan and what people of faith are doing to stem the tide of foreclosures.

Star Trek Movie: Where Are The Black Men?

There's a lack of Black men in the Star Trek trailers and director J.J. Abrams called and invited Tyler Perry to be in the movie to make up for the oversight