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by Cecil Brown We were at the Oakland Ballroom, 1723 on Franklin Street, on a Friday night in Oakland, California....

A closer look at philanthropy’s role in mass incarceration by Donald ‘C-Note’ Hooker In a bold move, the Mellon Foundation recently...

“Working people forced these programs into existence. They expand or contract depending on our overall strength. When we’re strong, they cover more people with better benefits. When we’re not strong, they get cut.” - Michael Lyon, SF Gray Panthers

Launched in 2018, the Medically Tailored Meals pilot program was designed to help Medi-Cal patients with congestive heart failure...

As part of the Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS) ongoing commitment to engaging in innovative work to improve...

On hearing the news, Williams sounded at once relieved and at a loss. “I just told my neighbor the other day: ‘I hope it’s not a Black lady. Her life is gonna be upside down.’” 

Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, covers one in three Californians, including more than 50 percent of the state's youth. In...

With impending school closures, broken promises for affordable housing development, and a plan to replace hard-fought community benefits with an unvetted “Silicon Valley of the north,” San Francisco continues its unrivaled track record of racist city planning and development.

Although Donnie Robinson and the Kings of Cali clubhouse have moved from San Francisco County to Solano County, they are still reaching back and connecting to the Bayview Hunters Point community – building, riding and working together.

For Black activists and organizations advocating for racial justice in California, Project 2025 could mean increased surveillance, harassment and legal challenges.

This isn’t just about money. It’s about reaffirming the essential role that journalism plays in our democracy.

Inclusion and recognition celebrated at 49ers Preseason game

“Working people forced these programs into existence. They expand or contract depending on our overall strength. When we’re strong, they cover more people with better benefits. When we’re not strong, they get cut.” - Michael Lyon, SF Gray Panthers

Launched in 2018, the Medically Tailored Meals pilot program was designed to help Medi-Cal patients with congestive heart failure by reducing hospital readmissions and...

As part of the Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS) ongoing commitment to engaging in innovative work to improve the maternal health care landscape,...

A closer look at philanthropy’s role in mass incarceration by Donald ‘C-Note’ Hooker In a bold move, the Mellon Foundation recently...

The concept, Black August, grew out of the need to expose the glorious and heroic deeds of those Afrikan women and men who recognized and struggled against the injustices heaped upon people of color on a daily basis in America.

A notorious prison system, Alabama’s is the most overcrowded in the country, operating at over 168% capacity

Kwame is being unjustly held in RHU (solitary confinement) as retaliation and harassment for his affiliation with community improvement organizations.

In every state across Turtle Island, we have outside people doing Revolutionary Nationalism and abolitionist work. In every single prison we have Political Prisoners and Politicized individuals doing the work and resisting their captivity. PLM is to unite those people.

Red Onion State Prison officials want to keep what happens in these dens of racism and corruption secret and go to every extreme to silence those who aim to expose them.

The medical community must acknowledge the underlying oppressive violence that our community, our loved ones are suffering. It is state violence that is so important.

“Sekou Odinga lived to manifest ... the need to resist in order to overcome white supremacy and capitalist-imperialism, the scourge of the planet. Long Live the warrior spirit of Sekou Odinga.” - Jalil Muntaqim

Police and guard abuse is not and has never been about a few bad apples doing wrong. The entire legal system is structured to enable and protect abusers so they suffer no consequences for their offenses.

Despite Lennar’s claims that grading was completed in September in 2007, community air monitors continue to document elevations in asbestos levels.

George D. Porter dedicated his career to the International Longshoremen’s Workers Union Local 34. He died in the care of his loving family on the morning of Feb. 19, 1992. His immediate cause of death was dehydration. His final cause of death was pulmonary asbestosis.

“The police say to us all the time that they can’t do their jobs because we won’t talk and tell on someone. Well, we ARE telling on PG&E … so now we tell them it’s your turn. Do your job! Do it now!”

“We have been living the Lennar nightmare for seven years. We are original owners with perpetual water intrusion. I am trying to organize my neighbors (168 defective homes) and share information in hopes that together we can make a difference ... We are absolutely devastated. I am writing from Novato, California.” — Tamara

After more than 15 years of “cleanup,” the Shipyard is still a toxic mess – and now Lennar is moving forward to build residential housing on the site.