2024 August
Monthly Archives: August 2024
Black San Francisco Matters
With impending school closures, broken promises for affordable housing development, and a plan to replace hard-fought community benefits with an unvetted “Silicon Valley of the north,” San Francisco continues its unrivaled track record of racist city planning and development.
Kings of Cali Motorcycle Club celebrates 20-year anniversary
Although Donnie Robinson and the Kings of Cali clubhouse have moved from San Francisco County to Solano County, they are still reaching back and connecting to the Bayview Hunters Point community – building, riding and working together.
Project 2025: Trump’s blueprint for authoritarian rule threatens the future of Black Californians
For Black activists and organizations advocating for racial justice in California, Project 2025 could mean increased surveillance, harassment and legal challenges.
California’s historic partnership to save journalism creates a critical way forward for news publishers
This isn’t just about money. It’s about reaffirming the essential role that journalism plays in our democracy.
49ers celebrate diversity with ‘Football for All’ at Levi’s Stadium
Inclusion and recognition celebrated at 49ers Preseason game
Israel a society of human shields
Hamas can't hold a candle to an entire society used as human shields.
Discover Medi-Cal’s Vital Supports for Californians Experiencing or at Risk of Homelessness
Enhanced Care Management takes a whole-person, interdisciplinary approach to care to address clinical and non-clinical needs of members with the most complex medical and...
Kamala Harris’s environmental deceptions
Kamala Harris’s vaunted “environmental justice unit” prosecuted only the most trivial violations in San Francisco’s toxic Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.
Crash the DNC’s party
As one who was on the streets protesting the Vietnam War, I knew that it was imperative to let the Vietnamese know we were in solidarity with them, and the Palestinians deserve no less.
From The Heart: Empowering youth and nourishing families in Bayview Hunters Point
In essence, this program is more than just an intervention – it is a beacon of hope guiding Bayview Hunters Point’s youth towards brighter futures.
Family of Terry Williams ‘disgusted’ by city’s response after racist attacks, house fire
More than two months after racist attacks and a fire destroyed the home of longtime Fillmore residents, there are still no answers for either incident.
HBCU students tour San Francisco’s Black community
“For many of these students, this is their first visit to California. We’re sharing the legacy of Bayview’s elders and the resilience of this community.” - Dr. Saidah Leatutufu-Burch
Grants Pass is NOT for sale
We resist and refuse this recent legal decision on Grants Pass that will allow, enable, condone and promote the ongoing violent criminalization of our bodies and our lives; instead we demand reparations for the land theft, ableism, classism, border terrorism and violent police terror.
Israel’s ‘useful idiots’ are the US Congress and the Biden administration
“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating – the images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety .... We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. ... And I will not be silent." - Kamala Harris
Black August: A story of African freedom fighters
The concept, Black August, grew out of the need to expose the glorious and heroic deeds of those Afrikan women and men who recognized and struggled against the injustices heaped upon people of color on a daily basis in America.