2023
Yearly Archives: 2023
Celebrating the legacy of Dr. Mutulu Shakur
For those in the Bay Area interested in celebrating the life of Dr. Shakur, there will be a memorial on August 19 from 2:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. at the African American Art & Culture Complex in San Francisco (762 Fulton Street)
The precious dirt at Hunters Point
Article 31, by allowing the SF Public Health Department to be paid by the developer, Lennar, blinds the city agency tasked with protecting human health to the clear fact that the “dirt at Hunters Point” is not a gold mine. It is nuclear waste.
‘Tina’ the musical: a review
If you are a fan of bombastic light shows reminiscent of concerts, Black music performed with passion, then the Tina musical is for you. The play adapts and depicts the turbulent life of Black musical legend, “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Tina Turner.
Martial arts legend Sifu Bill Owens faces foreclosure, eviction, homelessness
He is a Black Elder, a care-giver, a pourer of knowledge and love into the Deep East Oakland (Huchuin) ComeUnity. Mr. Owens is being evicted.
Niger, West and Central Africa’s current war against neo-colonialism
What is striking and at the center of these changes on the continent, though, are a youth that no longer wants to be subjected to neocolonialism
Oakland schools made a promise to Black students – it’s time to deliver
Now is the time to sustain and grow our investments in Black students, so that generations of students can thrive, and the entire Oakland schools community can too.
The effect of today’s Hip Hop on the psychology of young Black America
A candid conversation on the potency of hip hop on youth
Resolution in honor of Monsa Sakura Nitoto’
Monsa Nitoto’ was a visionary, a staunch advocate for Black and Brown business participation in public works projects and a champion for equity, access, diversity and inclusion.
Actors and writers strike together for the future of Hollywood
This strike is about the protection of actor rights, as well as intellectual and creative property.
Rumors of WW3: Biden’s actions hint at military draft on the horizon
So as a community, we have to take an anti-draft and anti-war stance and begin to be very vocal about it. Black people and other people who are in the lower income brackets cannot continue to let our blood be the gasoline for the imperialist war machine’s agenda in other countries.
The Nairobi report back
On the first microphone I’ve ever touched on the continent, I find myself moving fast through poems, but it feels more like the sentient life of a tree.
Jeelani Shareef, financial freedom fighter
I'm a revolutionary, and revolutionaries create opportunities for the people.
The racist politics of confinement in Virginia’s high security prisons
At Virginia’s high security prisons dogs are a FIRST RESORT to force in almost any situation where guards invent or claim justification to use force on prisoners.
Ruchell Cinque Magee was just released from prison after 67 years caged!
On July 15, 2021, Ruchell was denied parole for the 16th time. In 2023, Ruchell Magee signed a petition for compassionate release after incessant work to challenge the legitimacy of his imprisonment.
Cinque’s return – a poem
After 67 years in prison Ruchell Cinque Magee has reached Freedom upon being released.
The under-funding of San Francisco’s Malcolm X Academy has led to a teacher shortage...
In 2023, in one of the most progressive cities in the country, Black residents are still fighting against separate and unequal distribution of resources to the local schools
Are Black people born with thicker skin?
This year they are having the Third Annual Shawn E’s Art & Jam. It’s a free family event happening on Aug. 12 that will feature local artists and vendors from all across the Bay.
Honey’s delight: Exploring the medicinal properties of East African honey
It was when I started to talk with the farmers at the market in Meru that I learned about honey in Kenya. I learned that it is considered medicine in Kenya. In fact, the swahili word for honey is the same as medicine, Dawa.
Horticulturist and herbalist Lea Jones talks about the relationship between humans and plants
Lea Jones is a modern day medicine-lady in the traditional way, where she is not only a plant scientist, but she also communicates with plants and the land in a way that is not taught in Western schools.
Letter from Dr. Tolbert Small to the family of Dr. Mutulu Shakur
Whenever the oppressed pick up arms, Mutulu lives. Whenever our children and grandchildren resist tyranny, racism and oppression, Mutulu lives!