2023
Yearly Archives: 2023
‘Keep Families Close’ bill makes visitation easier for incarcerated parents of minor children
In California, thousands of incarcerated parents are placed more than 500 miles from their children and struggle to maintain contact with their children.
Oakland Institute for Boxing
Boxing has been my life pretty much. It’s something that fell into place naturally for me as a fighter.
Banko Brown: When crime pre-emption becomes murder
by Jeremy Miller
“Pre-crime is both hypothetical and tangible. It brings the real consequence of an imagined future into the present.” – Jude McCulloch and...
Azi Taylor introduction!
"I realized that this is a newspaper that speaks to the Black community as well as gives the community a voice."
Cornel West offers voters a choice
“We can end poverty, endless war, cop cities, mass incarceration and ecological collapse, and provide housing, health care, reproductive rights, reparations, education and thriving wages for all,” Cornell West declared.
AfroComicCon comes to Oakland on Sept. 17
AfroComiCon is an annual event that celebrates and showcases Black excellence in the fields of art, media, tech and entertainment, as well as the realms of Black speculative literature, fiction, comic books, graphic novels, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, animation and related media
EOYDC offers stability for families in the community
A community center gives young people the space to be able to continue to engage with their peers and have more opportunities and resources outside of their school context.
Historic restaurant Souley Vegan a pillar of Oakland cuisine
Souley Vegan owner Tamearra Dyson’s recipes were the first to make “a vegan lifestyle” possible to imagine for Black people’s taste buds.
Extreme heat and overcrowding make Texas prison hell
The living conditions here on the Coffield Unit are in total violation of the Eighth Amendment. The SPCA would not allow dogs to be housed as we are.
The SF Bay View’s Community Journalism Program successfully trains Black citizen journalists
We need politically educated journalists who are sensitive to the community’s pain and struggle.
A reparations explanation for angry white people
Reparations seem to be a problem only when it comes to making things balanced with Black Americans.
Another victory for People’s Power: My release from solitary confinement
During my time in solitary, officials attempted to stop my cancer treatment at outside hospitals. It was only because of public awareness and protest that my treatment was resumed and recently completed.
Special school board election in East Oakland
Oakland is scheduled to have a special school board election on Nov. 7, 2023, open only to District 5 residents to fill the current vacancy for the School Board director.
‘Get your ass in the water and swim like Aaren Rudolph!’
You students should begin the new school year by jumping in the water and swimming your asses off – just like Aaren Rudolph did.
Introducing Ms. Patricia Jackson, equestrian and teacher!
... All must know that “We Ride Too”
A legacy of genocidal convictions: Jerome Coffey is innocent
Sentences to die in cages have effectively become the method of choice for white supremacy’s genocidal machine.
The beautiful, unsettling ‘Josephine’s Feast’ extends its run into this weekend at the SF...
For me theater is like church – it’s a space where all kinds of people can gather in the flesh and process what it means to be human together through live actors.
Tallio is serving up more than coffee
What Tallio’s provides is affordable respect, which is priceless to someone who is often denied respect simply because of how they look.
20 year anniversary of the Joyce Gordon Gallery: artistic curator Eric Murphy speaks
The importance of having Black owned galleries as with any creative Black owned space is the blessing to showcase and tell our own stories and show artwork that reflect our image and expression.
Remembering Garfield Belfon on African Martyrs Day
“The police become necessary in human society only at that junction of human society when it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got.” – Omali Yeshitela, chairman, African People’s Socialist Party