Interim Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, Daisy Gonzales, held a media conference Feb. 1, focusing on current programs that benefit students and highlighting Black history month. Gonzales...

The Citizen, Peralta Community College District’s (PCCD) only student run publication, has filed suit against the district to compel the release of public records associated with multiple requests...

Oakland is about to launch a new pilot program: Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO) designed to replace the Oakland Police Department’s response to non-violent emergencies and...

In America, old people are seen as irrelevant - It doesn’t matter your race, religion or political party. We don’t count for much. With our social security, our homes bought for the price of today's...

It’s time for America to reconsider that our country, built on the bedrock values of liberty and freedom, is now torn apart in a fight between those who believe in an individual’s right to mask...

The shift from in-person to remote learning has led to an invasion of bots and “phantom students” who are taking advantage of Peralta Community College District’s enrollment system to fraudulently...

  Dr. John Maduko Pamela Rudd, Opinion Editor  Dr. John Maduko was interviewed on May 27 in front of the PCCD community via Zoom for the position of chancellor. Following some opening remarks,...

It’s been five months since the Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees approved multi-million dollar security vendor contracts for Zulu Community Protection Services (Zulu) and Community...

A year later and I sit on the deck of an Airbnb under a canopy of trees and rain clouds. This is the first time our book group has met since the pandemic broke. Aptly, we are reading H is for Hawk,...

Nearly one month after the Peralta Community College District awarded $6.2 million in contracts to four local security firms that would replace the Alameda County Sheriffs, public records requests...

This piece is part of a series that members of the Citizen staff wrote to share our stories and in response to comments that Trustee Linda Handy recently made about our newsroom. ~~~ The first...

Tuesday, November 3, 2020, is the California General Election. WHO CAN VOTE All US citizens and residents of California who are 18 years old by November 3, 2020, can vote.  If you have a misdemeanor...