If you walked into any of the funky old blues joints of Oakland — Mile Hi Club, Esther’s Orbit Room, the Continental Club — throughout the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, you were likely to run into Lee ...

Two candidates running to be Oakland’s next mayor in April’s special election went head-to-head in a debate about how they would address the city’s most pressing issues. Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee ...