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The story of Ruth Rushen: How the reality of rehabilitation came to be

In 1980, Ruth Rushen embarked on her career in the California Department of Corrections.

Changing the narrative: City College

City College of San Francisco is coming into this upcoming season with a chip on its shoulder.

Black Restaurant Week covered the diaspora of African-influenced food from Northern Cali testaurants

Black Restaurant week offers a variety of great cuisines!

It’s bigger than Banko Brown

The community must advocate, listen and seek to understand a section of Blackness that at times seems voiceless.

Community Window on Environmental Exposures    

“The Navy disputes that the site harms the health of area residents. Doctors who launched an effort to test families for exposure disagree.” – Washington Post, May 7, 2023

Diamano Coura dance company is performing in the SF Internat’l Arts Fest on June 17 at the Brava Theater

The Diamano Coura dance company will be performing the Brava Theater as a part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival Saturday June 17.

San Francisco Black Film festival will be coming soon!

Only in your hands is your life worth living. Only you can make yourself free.

The San Francisco Unified School District is in unprecedented peril: interview with Kevine Boggess, the President of the SF...

Today, Black students are some of the worst performing students in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) academically

Oakland Carnival is set to run!

"Oakland Carnival is held in the spirit of community and cooperation."

Oakland’s Inspector General Michelle Phillips talks community oversight of the OPD

The Office of the Inspector General is one of the entities set up to increase community oversight over the Oakland Police Department

District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’ approval stays at record low after her refusal to charge for the murder of Banko...

Check out the words of Attorney Geoffrea Morris, as she breaks down the murder of Banko Brown

Speaking of Crack …

“Three Strikes and You’re Out” resulted in people going in young and spending their entire life in prison for offenses that should never have been felonies.

Mayor and DA give OK for open season on Black lives

Black people should be eyeing our leadership closely when it comes to this case.

Reparations: Now and forever!

All across America people are beginning to look at reparations from a realistic perspective, turning ideas into actions, and actions into real deal results.

Black San Franciscans’ overdose death rate is five times above the citywide rate

If the crisis continues at the present rate, there will be 804 deaths in 2023 alone, of which 241 are Black. We are in a state of emergency.

Black New World Media Awards night is coming June 3 at the African American Art and Culture Complex

Come out and celebrate the achievements of Black Media makers

The reigning queen of conscious Hip Hop: Sa-Roc speaks

My music has always been a reflection or an extension of who I am as a person

Dialogue with a gangsta

A revolutionary love will free us!

Abolition Now!

Is Black-originated culture a social justice ‘warrior’ blind spot?

To see our powerful culture and its curriculum – rooted in Black history and self-empowerment – be denied in places where it is arguably needed the most is an affront in this otherwise activist driven environment.

‘Prison Lives Matter: Liberate Our Elders’ webinar Aug. 4-6

The holding of international tribunals, developing The People’s Senate, and organizing national strategy is how we gain our freedom.

Dialogue with a gangsta

A revolutionary love will free us!

Rashid: From my denied and delayed cancer care to the worst possible treatment 

It’s been exactly a year and a half since Virginia prison officials had clinical evidence from PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood tests that I have prostate cancer ...

ARMED MADMEN – FROM KLAN TO COPS (2023)

Enough police terror!

Tyranny at Dr. Lane Murray Unit: guards profiteering off new underground sport

At Lane Murray Unit, the warden is a tyrant and the officers are her exclusive army of bullies and extortionists!

Talkin’ to the youngsters

Talking to a few youngsters, I hear them saying there are white people in the inner city walking their poodles and how our communities are being gentrified.

Women of the Party

“They enrich our today as they enriched our yesterday.” – Mumia

The Most Beautiful Body Art 

From the depths of the divine the beauty emerges.
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Culture Currents

Black Restaurant Week covered the diaspora of African-influenced food from Northern Cali testaurants

Black Restaurant week offers a variety of great cuisines!

Diamano Coura dance company is performing in the SF Internat’l Arts Fest on June 17 at the Brava Theater

The Diamano Coura dance company will be performing the Brava Theater as a part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival Saturday June 17.

San Francisco Black Film festival will be coming soon!

Only in your hands is your life worth living. Only you can make yourself free.

Black New World Media Awards night is coming June 3 at the African American Art and Culture Complex

Come out and celebrate the achievements of Black Media makers

Oakland’s Poet Laureate Ayodele Nzinga

"I art in the tradition of the Black Arts Movement, in the continuum of art that transcends being 'art for art’s sake'

Come see ‘The Nigger Lovers’

There was a lot of red wine at the start of the process and then by the end I think I switched to coffee.

Tidal Wave Comics brings Black and diverse comic characters to life

Ken Johnson is an African American comic book writer and illustrator

California Reparations Task Force comes to Oakland

A heated California Reparations task force meeting took place this past Saturday at Mills College in Oakland.

Political prisoner and wife get mural in East Oakland

Jamal Hart, Mumia’s grandson, has kept up the fight to bring his grandfather home.

‘7 Minutes in Heaven’ review

“7 minutes In Heaven” was a cinematic masterpiece that I would watch again.

Black Terminus brings the Black Panthers into Augmented Reality

If I was going to bring the Panthers in AR, it would be on a Black-owned platform created by me.

Photographing the ‘68 Olympics: talking wit’ photographer Jeffrey Blankfort

It’s difficult, more than a half century later, to compare the energy in the stadium before and after Smith’s and Carlos’s fist raising

Bay View Archives

Welcome to the Bay View Archives! With a $20,000 grant from The San Francisco Foundation, we can finally formalize and publicize our trove of Black journalism from 1976 to 2008.

Lennar seeks license to kill

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

Those who must be shown: an environmental justice manifesto

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.

Then wasn’t the time, but now is!

“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!”

Lennar builds shoddy homes

“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

A failure of leadership

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.