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Yearly Archives: 2021
Black joy, healing and art in the park: SF’s Presidio opens up the ‘My...
The parks offered options for relief during the onslaught of the pandemic, and now the creations culminating from these adventures into the unknown.
GirlFly Poetry
Young GirlFly women diving into and expressing deep connections from Quesada Gardens.
Paying for universal health care
Politicians are paid to resist and We the People must get involved for any hope of a better health care system.
Wanda’s Picks for October 2021
It’s all one great energy, one great vibration or energy that breathes for all life. We need to use intention to tune our souls so we can charge our human battery to capacity. - Wanda Sabir
Pierre Labossiere speaks of solidarity against Haitian deportations protest
Pierre LaBossier, founder of Haiti Action Committee, speaks at a protest against brutal deportations of Haitians.
Dee, co-owner of Hey Neighbor Cafe
Nube Brown interviews Dee, co-owner of Hey Neighbor Cafe in SF’s Portola neighborhood.
2255 Taraval offers 3-bedroom affordable apartment – apply by Oct. 29
Below Market Rate (BMR) Rental Apartments Available
2255 Taraval Apartments at 2410 33rd Avenue, San Francisco, California 94116
One Three Bedroom at $2284.00 a month
One parking...
‘Maybe you shouldn’t be building this project’
With solutions being offered and critical work being done by Homfulness, City of Oakland gets pushback for not walking their talk about the housing crisis.
Much respect and love to the Black Panther Party
Celebrating the Black Panther Party for Defense birthed in Oakland 55 years ago, Baba Jahahara also shares appreciation of the many past and present jewels of our communities.
John Burris on the indictment of two Stockton cops for viciously beating Devin Carter,...
The grand jury’s indictment of criminal acts by Stockton’s bad cops, Stiles and Villapudua, is a positive step towards achieving accountability and justice for the brutal malice perpetrated on Devin Carter and his family.
Leroy Moore: Dear Black community
Leroy Moore uses the power of poetry to inspire Black community engagement in the struggle for healing and empowerment for Black ableism by building Black organizations, leadership and unity.
California Reading Report Card: Nine Bay Area school districts at bottom of list
Alarmingly low CA Reading Report Card scores in Bay Area schools triggers the creating of a task force by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.
Do women face more challenges than men in recovery?
Traci Watson of Sister’s Circle Women’s Support Network, Inc. submits the possibility of undercounted women needing treatment for addiction issues in the face of hurdles that women in particular must navigate.
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.
Open Studios at the Hunters Point Shipyard in October
Open Studios from the largest artist community in the country promises great art from this diverse BIPOC community, and while not up close, for sure personal engagement with the artists.
Oakland Pride is back in person, Folsom Street Fair presents Megahood and more
Celebrating sexual liberation for all with Pride festivals, fairs and clubs all over the Bay!