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Monthly Archives: March 2024

Palestinian organizers protest Navy vessel said to be headed to Israel

The protest was intended to stop the ship’s departure and denounce former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s press conference celebrating the ship’s maiden voyage.

Comrade George, Gaza and the Black Community

How many of us are finding out about the Black community in the Gaza Strip for the first time now?

San Francisco State commemorates Malcolm X’s legacy

“When you start from slavery, everything looks like progress.”

Gold Beams hosts a fire event at West Oakland’s Crucible

The night at the Crucible was filled with creativity, fire performances and a bit of raunch.

LandBack: ‘We have together set the Shellmound free!’

“We owe this victory to the ancestors and every single person who stood beside us in this fight. We did it!” said Deja Gould.

Readers respond to ‘Dental Robin Hood’

Dental Robin Hood update

‘The Wiz’ returns: There’s no place like the Ruth Williams Bayview Opera House

The Bayview Opera House beat to the rhythm of "The Wiz."

Tomiko Iyalla: Oakland Afrobeats ambassador

Tomiko Iyalla talks about her connection with Afrobeats

World premiere of Ashley Smiley’s ‘Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad’

Smiley, a playwright and San Francisco native with long standing personal ties to the Bayview Hunters Point, Mission, Fillmore and Sunnydale neighborhoods, shares, “The biggest thing that I want people to think about is the human component of gentrification.”

Trade unions segregate construction in Oakland

Once upon a time, when I was an innocent girl and started in this industry working for the City of Oakland, some of the wages were different.

SF Police Commission votes to curb racially-biased police stops

The San Francisco Police Commission voted Feb. 21 to enact a policy to curb SFPD’s use of racially-biased pretext stops.

The current state of reparations: case studies from key American cities

The demand for reparations is not merely a call for monetary compensation; it is a fight for recognition and justice and for the country to live up to its ideals of equality and liberty

Advocates weigh in on Calif. Black Caucus reparations package

The California Legislative Black Caucus introduces a 14-bill reparations package at the State Capitol on Feb. 21, 2024

Legendary filmmaker Kevin Epps takes the reins of the Bay View

He’s Kevin Epps, San Francisco’s best known filmmaker and the favorite son of Bayview Hunters Point, the pride of the community where he was born and raised.

Election issues in Park Merced

“At every polling place, the doors should be open. I don’t want this to happen to anyone else.” - Virginia Marshall

Spotlight on Virginia prisons: Why Virginia’s remote prisons need to be publicly exposed and...

Red Onion State Prison officials want to keep what happens in these dens of racism and corruption secret and go to every extreme to silence those who aim to expose them.

Yeshua’s Second Chance fights for a second chance

Gwendolyn Watkins remains steadfast in her determination to revive Yeshua’s Second Chance Foundation with a new fire truck manufacturing company she intends to name “Pride of America.”

Israeli massacre of starving Palestinians prompts Biden to promise air-dropped food

In the almost five months of war, there have been more children, more journalists, more medical personnel, more U.N. staff killed more than anywhere else in the world in any conflict.

Treatment not tents? Vote NO on Prop 1 and Prop F

by Tiny Gray Garcia aka povertyskola “OWWW, OWWWWWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.” Bobby, a houseless neuro-divergent relative, had been screaming in two-second intervals from the...