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The legacy of Jelvon Helton
November 6, 2010
Press reports don’t describe Jelvon Helton as a young San Francisco champion who was murdered while celebrating the Giants’ victory. Instead, article after article in the mainstream media simply states that a gang member was killed.
A Japanese Rosa Parks at King Garvey Co-Op?
June 11, 2009
The residents of Martin Luther King – Marcus Garvey Cooperative Square Apartments, Inc. (King Garvey Co-op), who are also the shareholders of this housing complex in San Francisco’s historically Black Fillmore district, known before redevelopment as “Harlem of the West,” are being intimidated into a fraudulent deal that would turn over nearly $100 million in their families’ assets to private developers with government connections.
The King Garvey Co-op housing crisis
October 10, 2007
In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the historically Black Fillmore district – since dubbed the “Western Addition” – underwent a massive phase of urban renewal in which block after block was literally razed to the ground to make way for redevelopment. The impact on the Black community was devastating.