Daily Archives: May 6, 2020
Attorney John Burris and Black Lives Matter announce legal action against cop who brutally...
Civil rights attorneys John Burris and Adante Pointer filed a legal claim against the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department on behalf of the 14-year-old boy who was brutally assaulted by Sacramento Sheriff Deputy Brian Fowell. Deputy Fowell is contracted out to the City of Rancho Cordova as a police officer.
Family ties: Skrill Gates releases ‘1607 83rd Ave’
A decade in the making, Skrill Gates has been polishing his skills as a rap artist for this very moment. On May 1, he dropped his much anticipated new release, “1607 83rd Ave,” which was the address of our late grandparents’ house in East Oakland. Skrill Gates is my real life cousin.
Oakland’s COVID-19 pandemic quarantine virtual education experiment: Is it working?
by JR Valrey, The Black New World Journalist Society
Everyone in our society has had their lives altered in ways that we would not have...
Yes, there is intelligent life on Treasure Island
The Treasure Island neighborhood’s history spans back 81 years. In 1939, San Francisco built this 404-acre artificial landform for the Golden Gate International Exhibition. In 1941, the Navy took it for a military base, and in 1999-2000, when it was decommissioned, San Franciscans – mostly people of color at risk of homelessness – moved in.