San Francisco Bay View

by Robbie Jackson In this post pandemic world, we have seen the value of a “clean bill of health.” Any...

The history of racism in medical science and sexualization of Black Beauty. The story of Sarah Baartman.

In 2018 the Oakland Roots Soccer Club was formed. In the Fall of 2019, they began to play in the National Independent Soccer Association. In 2021, the Oakland Roots Soccer Club began to play in the USL Championship, the second division of professional soccer in the United States.

One such story of triumph recalls the life of Shawn Richard. Having made it alive through the War on Drugs, native San Franciscian Shawn Richard’s has broken through all social hurdles placed in front of him.

So that’s how I see myself and my work. I want to liberate at least one (Black) person, multiple people would be astounding. If I can offer them a good story, or a poem that just touches the soul and gives them hope, I want to remind us of our humanity so we can go forward and free someone else; then my life would never be in vain.

Cuba was initially placed on the list of state sponsors of terrorism during the Reagan administration in 1982 because of its support for anti-colonial struggles around the world, most notably in Africa.

  by Sumiko Saulson Award-winning Afrofuturist Nisi Shawl has knocked it out of the park with “Speculation,” a work of mid...

Legalized enslavement, Jim Crow policies, redlining and state sanctioned murder are a few reasons why reparations are owed.

by Robbie Jackson April 20 is upon us, and in the Bay Area, it’s more than just a holiday. It’s...

For everything in the environment to function properly there has to be a balance between male and female trees

The fight for freedom and revolution is kept alive through photos of the Black Panther Party, captured by Jeffrey Blankfort

by JR Valrey, the Minister of Information and Editor in Chief of the San Francisco Bay View Newspaper Adante Pointer...

In 2018 the Oakland Roots Soccer Club was formed. In the Fall of 2019, they began to play in the National Independent Soccer Association. In 2021, the Oakland Roots Soccer Club began to play in the USL Championship, the second division of professional soccer in the United States.

One such story of triumph recalls the life of Shawn Richard. Having made it alive through the War on Drugs, native San Franciscian Shawn Richard’s has broken through all social hurdles placed in front of him.

So that’s how I see myself and my work. I want to liberate at least one (Black) person, multiple people would be astounding. If I can offer them a good story, or a poem that just touches the soul and gives them hope, I want to remind us of our humanity so we can go forward and free someone else; then my life would never be in vain.

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.

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

From the depths of the divine the beauty emerges.

Racially targeted and caged as gang members

How much nothing has changed.

What is the human element?

Who is she?

The light is in the message.

“During difficult times I remain hopeful in a hopeless place – I am human, I am alive, I remind myself.”

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.