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Monthly Archives: August 2026
Haiti – cruelty is the point: Haiti TPS and the politics of punishment
Dr. Julianne Malveaux condemns the threatened end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians as a policy of punishment rooted in Haiti’s long history of exploitation and contempt. She calls for solidarity, an extension of TPS and a path to permanence for Haitian families who have built their lives in the United States.
The Party for the People Block Party
The Griot Party Experience will bring spoken word, hip hop, storytelling, comedy and theater to the Poetry for the People Block Party in West Oakland. In this Q&A, Logic Amen discusses the collective’s roots, its healing-centered mission and the role of spoken word in Black liberation.
Our children deserve more than our good intentions
Drawing on the Black Panther Party’s legacy of responding to children’s needs, Ty-Licia Hooker calls for deeper investment in Oakland and Bay Area students. She urges families, educators, funders and leaders to listen directly to young people and build support around what they need to thrive.
Best Move – Black Men’s Chess League
Black Men’s Chess League organizers discuss building a Bay Area movement around chess, fellowship and youth instruction. The group’s events bring together players, families and supporters across the region.
The monsters we know: Black horror names the systems that harm us
At a Sistah SciFi conversation in San Francisco, Black horror writers Tamika Thompson and Justin C. Key examine public housing, medicine and gun violence as systems of fear. Their discussion considers how horror can make institutional harm visible while preserving Black joy, humanity and authorship.
‘A lot of this stuff brings up emotions inside of me’
Willie Sundiata Tate reflects on the racism, incarceration and political education that shaped his path from the California Youth Authority to the San Quentin Six era. In an unfinished phone conversation, he recalls George Jackson, Black August and the lasting emotional weight of prison movement history.
Our tax dollars are funding a slow genocide in Cuba
Cuban Embassy First Secretary Sulia Páez discusses the Cuban government’s response to U.S. policy, including the reported impacts of the blockade and fuel shortages. In an interview with JR Valrey, she addresses health care, sovereignty and U.S.-Cuba relations.
Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and Africa
In commemoration of the Fidel Castro centenary on August 13, 2026, we present remarks given by Djibo Sobukwe at The Symposium on Fidel Castro and...
Reflectacles review doubles as a privacy PSA for readers navigating biometric tracking
Tabari Morris of SF Bay View reviews Reflectacles privacy eyewear and issues a PSA on how Black communities can confront facial recognition and biometric tracking on their own terms.
The Breaking Point: Behind the rebellion in Bertie-Martin Prison
We examine the Bertie-Martin prison uprising through the lens of longstanding concerns about incarceration, neglect and human rights. Eric Hunter argues that prison resistance must be understood in the context of systemic conditions rather than as an isolated crisis.
FEED THE HOOD: where memories, music, and public service intersect
East Oakland Collective and members of Digital Underground honor Shock G through Feed the Hood, combining mutual aid, music and remembrance. Leah Harmony catches up with Candice Elder and Mystic to discuss the partnership’s work to provide meals, supplies and support for Oakland residents.
Bay Area lawyer Adante Pointer talks police accountability after the latest OPD scandals
Bay Area attorney Adante Pointer discusses OPD’s release from federal oversight, the department’s history and questions of police accountability in Oakland. He also addresses SFPD’s raid on the Black Panther apartment building and the allocation of police resources in recent cases.
23 years of oversight ends and Oakland Police are still killing people.
JR Valrey interviews Anti-Police Terror Project activist Lance Wilson about a fatal Oakland police shooting, the possible end of federal oversight and accountability within OPD. Wilson also addresses the policing of Black unhoused Oaklanders and calls for housing- and care-based responses to crisis.
Surveillance data centers are coming to San Francisco
JR Valrey reports on two planned surveillance data centers near Bayview Hunters Point and Vis Valley, raising concerns about pollution, water use and neighborhood impacts. Supervisor Shamann Walton says the projects moved forward without community input and may prompt legislative action.
The truth behind Treasure Island’s tricky history
How history repeats itself! Just as in the past with the 400,000 sailors and low-market-rate and homeless San Franciscans, not one of the prospective residents currently buying into Treasure and Yerba Buena Islands’ glitzy high-rises and condos on the redeveloped islands is informed about the radioactive and chemical contamination the Navy can never completely clean out of the soil, groundwater and air.
Save gashouse cove before San Francisco loses another working waterfront
Caption 1: View of Gashouse Cove from Fort Mason photo provided by Maggie Hallahan Caption 2: Map of active maritime refueling stations in the San Francisco Bay Area photo provided by HSC Working Group In August 2025, SF Bay View published “Rotting from the coast in: Sea Scouts displaced, waterfront in decline,” an...
The revision and origin of Black August
Black August honors the revolutionary lives and sacrifices of George and Jonathan Jackson and other imprisoned freedom fighters. Kiilu Nyasha traces its origins, meaning and enduring call for unity, resistance and liberation.
Dr. Fauci pleading the 5th and Tulsi Gabbard’s release of COVID files only confirms...
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s reported Fifth Amendment pleas and Tulsi Gabbard’s release of COVID-19 files reignite explosive questions about the pandemic’s origins, government secrecy and public accountability. But for Black America, the article argues, these revelations only confirm a centuries-old truth: mistrust of the U.S. medical establishment was never unfounded.
‘She followed the rules,’ says lawyer for woman arrested by ICE at Denver International
Plainclothes ICE agents arrested Chantal Morales Rojas as she boarded an Oakland-bound flight – but did they have the right to take her? Her lawyer says Rojas followed the rules and was legally authorized to live and work in the U.S.