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= Oakland Sunshine (newspaper) = Oakland Sunshine is a weekly posted African-American newspaper from Oakland, California, which includes local, state and national news. It was founded and edited by John A. Wilds, the first African American civil servant in Oakland: city hall's custodian and night watchman. Wilds was the editor until at least 1908. The newspaper was a platform for the African American community in Oakland and played a significant role in the local media landscape until its operations ended in the early 1920s.