2025
Yearly Archives: 2025
HBCU Classics: NBA All-Star Wins With Positivity in Oakland
by Dr. Tiffany Caesar
Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, the Oakland Arena experienced a surge of HBCU alumni as more than 19,000 fans packed the...
What’s killing Black businesses in the Bayview?
Bayview's Black businesses face challenges like gentrification, lack of community support, and cultural apathy.
Comparing histories: Black and Japanese American advocates talk reparations and justice
Black and Japanese American advocates discussed shared struggles and support for reparations at a Sacramento event.
How the ‘subversive genius’ of Kendrick Lamar sent Trump home a loser
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance subverted Trump and celebrated Black resistance.
AfroSolo Arts Festival 31, March 28, 29, 30: Let Freedom Ring!
AfroSolo Arts Festival 31 celebrates Black storytelling, music, and AI-driven film.
Golden State Warriors highlight Black community health and excellence at African American Heritage Night
Warriors’ Heritage Night celebrated Black excellence, health, and advocacy.
Ramona Tascoe MD: I grew up beside a Superfund landfill with only a chain...
Bayview Hunters Point faces ongoing exposure from Superfund contamination, community-led biomonitoring is fighting for environmental justice.
‘Developing’ Bayview
Gentrification in Bayview is displacing Black residents, reshaping the neighborhood, and erasing its cultural and economic history.
Butch Ware announces campaign for governor of California
Dr. Butch Ware launches his Green Party campaign for California governor, focusing on social justice, healthcare, housing, and electoral reform.
The cultural loss no one talks about: The Eaton Fire, John Outterbridge and the...
The Eaton Fire erased Black history, destroying John Outterbridge’s legacy while media stayed silent.
Burkina Faso: The Land of the Upright People is rising
Captain Ibrahim Traoré is leading Burkina Faso to self-sufficiency by rejecting Western control and continuing Thomas Sankara’s legacy.
The Soul of SF State celebrates Black Family Day
by Olympia Joy Pereira
On Feb. 1, 2025, The Soul of SF State, a student organization at San Francisco State University kicked off Black History...
PHRM Reps Nobel Peace Prize Nomination: A Reflection on the Struggle for Prisoner Human...
By: CALIFORNIA PRISON FOCUS / K.A.G.E. Universal / ArtivistKadre/ LIBERATE OUR ELDERS/ A.I.M. / Dareal Prison / Debug /PHRM steering committee / Block/ Formerly...
View from a playground in Hunters Point, 2025
The survey exposes toxic dumping at the Hunters Point Superfund site, endangering public health.
Oakland rally calls for ban on menthol products
Oakland activists demand a menthol cigarette ban to protect Black health and fight targeted marketing.
California enacts nation’s first Black-Serving Institution designation
California's SB 1348 creates the nation's first Black-Serving Institution designation to support Black student success.
Black political power under attack: Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba indicted
We urge you to contribute to defeating the continuing efforts to deny justice and self-determination to the residents of Jackson, Mississippi, a city with an 86% Black population.
Navy warfare schools permanently poisoned Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
How much radiation still pollutes Treasure Island? Is the recent scanning the Navy's confession they have failed to remove it?
When Hip-Hop sold its soul for a stack
The article critiques Hip-Hop's shift from resistance to profit-driven betrayal.
The myth of the legal white immigrant – from La Migra to CalTrans, from...
The article exposes the myth of the "legal" white immigrant and the injustice of settler colonialism.