Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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The Black Press, the Black Vote and media dollars

As Blacks won the right to vote in the US, it was Black women who preached, prodded and pushed their people to the polls. In Hunters Point, the Black women leaders known as the Big Five built a powerful voting block with the slogan “Vote 100%!”

Black August: A story of African freedom fighters

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.

Kwame ‘Beans’ Shakur: Call to Action for National Unification

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.

Sekou Odinga, Black liberation fighter, passes at 79

“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

Welcome to the Bay View Archives! With a $20,000 grant from The San Francisco Foundation, we our team has formally digitized and published our trove of incredible Black journalism dating back all the way from 1976 to 2008.

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