Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee has endorsed Senate Bill 79, legislation that would legalize multifamily housing near major transit ...

Lee appeared in Minneapolis on Monday at the kickoff meeting for the Democratic National Committee, which is gearing up for battle with the Trump administration ...

Democratic Mayor Barbara Lee of Oakland, California, boasted Monday during the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting ...

Despite her relatively lower public profile, Lee has stayed busy — primarily in her mission to reform Oakland’s wonky system ...

OAKLAND — City leaders were on high alert Thursday after a mass arrest by federal immigration authorities in East Oakland ...

President Donald Trump has previously floated the idea of sending the National Guard to Oakland to bring down crime in the ...

President Trump has warned he might send the National Guard to other cities. The Black mayors of those cities vow to push ...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and a handful of other local leaders on Thursday denounced President Donald Trump’s recent ...

Members of the African American Mayors Association started noticing last year declines in violent crime in their cities.

Rep. Barbara Lee is the new mayor of Oakland after losing the U.S. Senate last year. She was sworn in on May 20.

Barbara Lee’s mother, Mildred Parish Massey in a college age photo from the 1940s. Massey was one of the first kids integrated into the El Paso schools, the community where Lee grew up.