As a City Council member back then, I supported Measure X and the notion of an independent mayor. I was wrong.

Last year, Oakland voters recalled Mayor Barbara Lee’s predecessor, Sheng Thao, in large part over boiling frustrations about ...

Lee already made two of her most important hires weeks ago: her chief of staff is Miya Saika Chen, who previously worked for former Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas. The mayor also hired Justin ...

In her first public statements about the bill’s deep cuts to health care and food aid, Lee explains why she stayed quiet ...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Barbara Lee has always stood apart, a matter-of-fact renegade with a long list of firsts. In high school, she was the first Black student to integrate her Southern California ...

Mayor Lee, who campaigned on her record of leveraging federal resources, has so far remained silent about a bill that could ...

OAKLAND — The country was still six decades away from recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday when Barbara Lee first moved from El Paso, Texas, to Southern California, where she had to ...

Rep. Barbara Lee says this would be Shirley Chisholm’s message to Kamala Harris and Democrats today Lee, a Chisholm mentee, reflects on the enduring legacy of the history-making congresswoman on ...

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Rep. Barbara Lee’s (D-CA) time in Congress might be coming to an end, but a group of Oakland’s top elected officials are hoping she will pivot and run for mayor. The self-described group of ...