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Is Raimore Construction creating a historical model to build Black community wealth?

Emerging models may be providing new opportunities to building Black community wealth.

SF jury takes only 5 hours to reach a not guilty verdict for a man who’s been waiting 17...

The criminal legal system shows no respect or concern for those who suffer being denied their right to a speedy trial.

‘What’s going on?’

With low student enrollment and budget cuts looming, there’s good news, too, and community work ahead towards enhanced education.

Was the Bay View infiltrated by a ‘rock star’ informant?

Trust and humanity are every day seeming more elusive as we struggle to sort fact from fiction, love from treachery – and human resiliency keeps us from despair.

Little government aid, ongoing stigma and the fight for decriminalization: San Francisco sex industry workers face long road to...

For some sex workers, laws such as FOSTA-SESTA block them from acquiring financial means to survive.

Healthcare roulette

The onus is on We the People to demand legislators acknowledge and legislate for health care as a human right instead of a commodity – vote accordingly.

The Navy uncovered Strontium-90, and they want you to think it’s OK. It’s not!

The indomitable Dr. Ahimsa Porter Simchai continues to expose the deadly injustices, today in the form of Strontium-90, threatening residents around the Hunters Point Shipyard Federal Superfund site.

How Transgender Law SB 132 is being manipulated by heterosexual males in prison

Transgender Law SB 132, while well meaning, needs immediate rework to prevent harm now happening to real women in prison.

Statement on findings of high Strontium-90 levels at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site

Elected officials would rather protect their capitalist, imperialist corporate development projects than protect the people from toxic and deadly living conditions.

Behind Enemy Lines

Unlock them up!

The People speak – no new, updated or refurbished jails or prisons. 

Liberate the Caged Voices: Amerikkka Inc. guilty of genocide!

The point of critical mass is evident when those being oppressed are willing to commit to their own deaths by resisting to stop the torture.

Compassionate release for Maroon

It’s shamefully apparent that, with deliberate indifference, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and SCI Dallas, have killed political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz.

How Transgender Law SB 132 is being manipulated by heterosexual males in prison

Transgender Law SB 132, while well meaning, needs immediate rework to prevent harm now happening to real women in prison.

Why Black Brothas shouldn’t call themselves the n-word (nigga)!

Here with clarity and conviction are the reasons why writer Oba Lee Frelimo finds calling ourselves or anyone ‘nigga’ is the foulest disrespect.

Liberate the Caged Voices: The rose began to grow from concrete

In this second part of Nube’s interview with Minister King X we learn how he found his own way through his unfolding Artivism to using art to bring the message in the struggle for true freedom.

Imprisoned in ‘Sundown Towns’: The racial politics of my domestic exile

Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson’s illumination about the creation of race for the purpose of capitalism’s necessity to control the masses could not be more clear.

Pattern of practice – brutality, schemes and crimes against humanity since 1619

Mutope Duguma defines the path from 1619’s forced exportation of Afrikans through the 400-year evolving in the domestic colonized nation to New Afrikans in the protracted struggle of present day.

Guards steal from a California death row artist and he gets the hole

CDCr fine tunes and perpetuates slave holder, racist dehumanization culture in the spirit of Empire.

Culture Currents

A Conspiracy of Flowers

At the International Tribunal 2021, poet Steve Bloom eloquently speaks his poem, ‘A Conspiracy of Flowers,’ to his friend also present, former Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera.

Love! Life! Healing! Reparations now!

Baba Jahahara reminds us to act in healthy ways, pays honor to new Ancestors and Ancients, and brings renewed energy to healing, Reparations and freeing our political prisoners.

GIRLFLY in the Gardens

Like new leaves emerging on the twig, GIRLFLY participants poetically acknowledge their vital humanity of belonging.

A calling to come home

Finding the right fit among programs available to help adult children coming from parents of substance use disorders can be challenging, yet possible.

Keidra is returning to Ghana wit’ D’Wayne Wiggins of the Tonys and a tour full of women musicians

Keidra’s first trip to Ghana inspires her return this December to make the Oakland 2 Accra Connection with music, heart and humanity.

Beyond Indigenous Peoples’ Day

New Roots Theater Festival centers BIPOC artists bringing joy and celebration in dance, song, music, poetry and theater for two days running, Oct. 16-17.

Sam: Samuel-Ace Ieremia Johnson – Forever in our hearts

Samuel-Ace Ieremia Johnson’s journey home is carried in celebration of the love he had for life.

Wanda’s Picks for October 2021

With eye and heart on fine tuning the soul and its reality, Wanda Sabir explores the layers of humanity’s offerings.

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.

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