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Monthly Archives: May 2023

California Reparations Task Force comes to Oakland

A heated California Reparations task force meeting took place this past Saturday at Mills College in Oakland.

National Fentanyl Awareness Day: Press conference SF City Hall May 10, 11 a.m.  

In San Francisco, the deadly fentanyl crisis is playing out in a distinctly anti-Black racist pattern that is all too familiar.

OUTSIDE THE BOX

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson  From city to jail blocks we live behind locks, The world is much bigger than this tiny cell box. But like slaves of old confined within the...

Political prisoner and wife get mural in East Oakland

Jamal Hart, Mumia’s grandson, has kept up the fight to bring his grandfather home.

‘7 Minutes in Heaven’ review

“7 minutes In Heaven” was a cinematic masterpiece that I would watch again.

Soldiers Circle 

The House of Shabazz led by Malcolm was at the forefront of changing the direction of our movement in the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Rashid: From my denied and delayed cancer care to the worst possible treatment 

It’s been exactly a year and a half since Virginia prison officials had clinical evidence from PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood tests that I have prostate cancer ...

Making it impossible to win

Can the Labor community unite to pass universal health care?

Killed for being hungry: the murder of Banko Brown

“He was the type of person to give you his shirt off his back, That’s how we knew him.”

The Oakland Unified School District one year after pandemic lockdown

The West Oakland Community is invited to join the visioning discussion on May 2. 

Black Terminus brings the Black Panthers into Augmented Reality

If I was going to bring the Panthers in AR, it would be on a Black-owned platform created by me.

Photographing the ‘68 Olympics: talking wit’ photographer Jeffrey Blankfort

It’s difficult, more than a half century later, to compare the energy in the stadium before and after Smith’s and Carlos’s fist raising