Sunni Khalid
News EditorSunni M. Khalid is a veteran of more than 40 years in journalism, having worked in print, radio, television, and web journalism.
He has worked for Time magazine, USA TODAY, The Wilmington News-Journal,The Baltimore Sun, and National Public Radio, where he was a diplomatic correspondent and the Cairo bureau chief.
During his career, Sunni has reported from more than 35 countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean on a number of breaking international stories. These include Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, the U.S. military intervention in Haiti, Israel’s Operation Grapes of Wrath in Lebanon and South Africa’s historic, first all-race elections in 1994.
Over the years, Sunni has also been a guest on several television and radio programs, including CNN, Al-Jazeera, ITN, Sky News and the Voice of America. He attended Howard University in Washington D.C. and graduated cum laude, majoring in print journalism. He also studied at the Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C., majoring in African studies and international economics.
More recently, Sunni helped establish the award-winning news department at WYPR-FM in Baltimore, where he served as managing news editor for nine years. Mr. Khalid was born in Detroit and raised in Highland Park, Michigan.
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A previously unsuccessful effort to lower the voting age to 16 in the city of San Francisco is once again underway -- led mainly by youth who aim to increase civic engagement and representation.
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Supporters of the effort to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price are taking every opportunity to pressure the county Board of Supervisors to call a special election as soon as possible.
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Monday, San Francisco lost one of the greatest social justice champions. The Reverend Cecil Williams, the co-founder of Glide Memorial Church, died peacefully at his retirement community. He was 94 years old.
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Eight projects in the cities of Oakland and Santa Cruz, and the counties of Marin, Monterey and Santa Cruz will receive nearly $55 million in state funds to help unsheltered homeless people move from encampments into housing.
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UC-Berkeley undergraduate student Cecilia Lunaparra is leading the race for Berkeley City Council's District 7 seat, which has been vacant since January following the resignation of Rigel Robinson, who stepped down after a community-led recall campaign and alleged threats.
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A looming operating budget deficit could spell layoffs for the City of Oakland, which may include the Oakland Police Department.
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CrosscurrentsLast week, the Oakland Athletics announced they are moving to a minor league park in Sacramento for the next three seasons. We bring you the inside baseball with the next episode of our new series, Foul Ball.
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Amid years of scandal, the womens-only Dublin Federal Correctional Institute is being closed.
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The union representing San Francisco's deputy sheriffs demanded assistance Saturday from the California National Guard to solve a critical staffing shortage in the county's jails.
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Oakland port officials on Thursday gave preliminary approval to change the name of the city's airport to "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport," despite San Francisco threatening a lawsuit over the issue.