Monthly Archives: August 2026

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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. 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.

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.