2022
Yearly Archives: 2022
Rehabilitation counselor, poet and photographer Beth Johnson passes
Beth Johnson designed her own unique adventure for a life fully experienced and shared.
Bayview youth still barred from bus to Alice Fong Yu
Why is Alice Fong Yu willing to spend so much energy to place obstacles in a child’s path to education?
OUSD adds insult to injury after school shooting
Is Oakland as determined as it appears to be to terminate not only teachers, but education itself?
‘We Were Hyphy’ at the Oakland Int’l Film Fest shows how to gentrify a...
This is what culture vulturism looks like.
UCSF study on long COVID: San Francisco, San Mateo residents urged to share their...
Most impacted by COVID, Black and Latinx communities will benefit from long COVID study.
How will Oakland’s future mayor bring back the Town that made them so proud?
The next mayor can truly “pivot” and help Oakland invest in making its Black arts and entertainment into a tourist destination.
Oakland filmmaker Adrian Burrell’s ‘The Game God(S)’ is a must see at the Oakland...
Burrell indicts a destructive system and inquires about dreams and nightmares, heroes and villains.
The 20th annual Oakland International Film Festival is Sept. 15-24
The festival fits the call for films that inspire others, on all imaginable levels.
Oakland Int’l Film Fest’s ‘Young Bucks’ explores today’s Black cowboy culture
‘Young Bucks’ offers soul feeding from once obscure part of Black culture history.
Isolation as ‘rehabilitation’
Again, bright light shines on the inhumane and genocidal systems of u.s. prison plantations today.
Central Brooklyn to East Oakland: ‘The Sun Rises in the East’ at Oakland Int’l...
“The East’s particular brand of Black activism – independent and intensely proud – has reverberated for generations.”
Reparations Teach-In comes to San Francisco
The reality light on reparations gets brighter.
At Dr. Ratcliff’s 90th, see Kevin Epps’ new film & join the Honor Roll!
Celebrate Love and Wisdom on Sept. 16!
What Happened to Balagoon? Part 1
Balagoon’s testament to commitment and the Supreme Creator’s hand in a life’s struggle.
Pray
Love, teach and prepare our youth to create their better life.
View from a playground in Hunters Point
What is the Community Window On Environmental Exposure project?
We can speak our truth
Reclaiming her self with bold, beautiful steps.
The Green Streets uplifts our people!
With love, empowerment and creativity, brothers collaborate in bringing our communities home.
Black liberation is not a Russian scheme
Miller shines bright light on risible reasoning behind FBI attacks on UHURU.
Sign the damn AB 2183 bill, Newsom!
AB 2183 would give workers in the fields the rights that many others in labor often take for granted.