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Ousted San Francisco School Board member Alison Collins speaks on recall campaign and her...
Community education, involvement and support for equitably educated kids is essential to replacing the oppressor's dumbing down practices.
‘Our race depends on it’: STOP the recall of San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin!
April Green’s voice of experience speaks truth: if we don’t stand up to protect justice, there will be no justice.
Resident of the Pit – Knowledge and Awareness as a Black Man
David Richardson’s view from the Pit presents one question, and so many others, of ‘what is education to a Black man?’
Racist ‘Bad Gene Theory’ applied to the people of Bayview Hunters Point
Blaming the exposed community is like the drug abusing parent of a child born with birth defects blaming the child for its disabling condition.
San Francisco Chinatown’s upcoming Bruce Lee exhibit celebrates his connection to the Black community
As cultural communities, we have more in common than we realize, and by working together to gain better understanding of our similarities, as well as our differences, we will be stronger.
We’re back in business!
In Mayor Breed's 2022 State of the City address, the focus was on building and jobs.
Berkeley City Council passes the first phase of Reparations!
For too long, Berkeley has rested on its laurels, thinking that the historic vote to fully integrate schools in 1968 was enough. Next: San Francisco!
Oakland community to rally around Lake Merritt in protest of school closures March 26
Join the rally on Saturday, March 26, at 11:00 a.m., beginning at La Escuelita at 1050 Second Avenue.
Pen game supreme: Talking to Oakland’s wordsmith and spoken word artist Prentice Powell
Wanting to “try it,” Prentice Powell did just that, and discovered that poetry brought him to learning and healing himself.
The Board of Parole denied Reginald Samuels his freedom for sharing the SF Bay...
The corrupt, racist plantation system of wardens, guards, parole boards, prosecutors and judges are predators, playing their captives in
TaSin Sabir on creative parenting and her first children’s book
Sabir brings life to the truth that the choice is not ‘either/or’ but 'both/and’ when residing in the circle of love.
I’ve never had any justice; I’ll never have any peace. Still, I rise …
Hope for the survival and thrival of all human beings remains as long as we are still able to rise from the injustices.
My name ain’t ‘Toby!’
Call me what you will, I will not answer until you call me by my name.
Wanted: Bayview workers to build India Basin waterfront park
The SF Recreation and Park Department is seeking local building professionals who will create the City’s next great waterfront park!
Rightly convicted, wrongly sentenced
The carceral system relies on our collective focus continuing to be on only part of the picture.
Structural Racism: The Prison Industrial Slave Complex and war
All in a day’s racist work of u.s. control – over-policing of Black and Brown people to feed the PISC while sorting out and granting refuge to white Ukranians at the wall.
Review of ‘Duende: Poems, 1966-now’ by Quincy Troupe
If one is unfamiliar with the poems of Quincy Troupe, Martina McGowan likely will compel a step forward into ” . . . perfect pitch / perfect rhythm.”
Afro-futurist George Hofstetter has a story – and dreams
The d. school is a place where ‘hood genius’ is celebrated and lifted up, where curiosity is uplifted and not persecuted.
Children’s book author Tiffany Golden used the pandemic to learn the art of illustrating
“I love drawing Black people, especially kids. Our looks range so much with hair types, skin tones, facial features and body types. There’s an infinite supply of inspiration.”
Only Black BART board member Lateefah Simon removed after changing residence following death threats
“I am upset that one of our most powerful voices for equity and justice in the Bay Area has been silenced from her role."