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A permanent fixture of injustice: Child Protective Services
“I feel like there is racism, ageism and sexism in the CPS system,” said Alicia.
On the road toward health
Step by step, access to healthy living is increasing with community efforts.
Eve Ensler’s spectacular celebrates New Orleans women
“I’ve been trying to free myself of Katrina’s grasp. ... With what I’ve gone through, I should be just stark raving mad by now, but I’m able to go on.”
Towards African-American unity and a Black united front
“Dr. King wants the same thing I want: freedom.” – Malcolm X
Environmental organizations and residents warn against consequences of Lennar’s ‘Prop Greed’
“People need to know about Proposition G’s environmental consequences. This is a ploy to pave parks for profits.”
Cuba: If change is in the air, does prosperity lie ahead?
35 percent of the National Assembly members are Black, up from 33 percent in 2003 and 28 percent in 1998. Forty-three percent of the National Assembly members are women, making Cuba one of the worlds’ leaders in the percentage of women in representative government.
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass: Our society will be judged on the way it cares...
People are scared about the future in a state that should be all about hope for the future. We represent California – the eighth largest economy on the planet.
Environmental organizations and residents warn against consequences of Lennar’s ‘Prop Greed’
Despite Lennar's promises to clean up toxics at this site, environmentalists point to the text of Propsition G, which states that “the final development plan for this Project Site may be materially different from the Project."
UN holds racism hearings in US
What’s different is you’re going to hear the voices of the people. You don’t usually hear the voice of the people.
Too poor to parent?
In 2004, Black children were twice as likely to enter foster care as white children. Even among other groups of color, Black mothers are more likely to lose their children to the state than Hispanics or Asians.
Prop F answers SF’s top housing issue: Affordability
For over a year, Lennar polluted the Bayview with dangerous levels of asbestos particulate, churning poisonous dust clouds over community homes, schools and churches.
Prop F answers SF’s top housing issue: Affordability
Lennar and their fleet of consultants are calling the Bayview Affordable Housing Initiative a “poison pill.” The irony here shouldn’t be lost on anyone.
US Navy aims its big guns at Latin America
While Washington assures that its sole interest in the region is combating “new threats” – terrorism, drug trafficking and the Maras gangs of Central America – Latin American people often see it as the pursuit of “imperialist” interests dictated by energy needs.
Taxpayers file landmark lawsuit to prevent $12 billion in prison construction debt
"How can we be kicking thousands of kids off of Medi-Cal and cutting the public school budget by billions, yet sink $12 billion into building tens of thousands of new prisons beds?”
Ocean View activists protest lack of work for community youths
A Bay View investigation into the workforce at the Ingleside Library, which is being built by CLW Builders, found that none of the workers on the construction site were from the Ingleside community.
Sean Bell’s killers acquitted
The police murdering Black people is not a phenomenon unique to New York. This is just a small drop in the bucket of police executions in Black communities around the nation and the world.
Up and coming: an interview wit’ the rap group Hairdoo
We make soul music coming directly from the spirit. We combine styles of the diaspora and hit it with the Juju stick, to make it hit.
Our Prop F is winning! And it’s ahead of Lennar’s Prop G!
San Francisco was built lot by lot by local builders with local workers – some with experience, some in training. That’s how we’ll renovate our solid existing homes and commercial buildings in Bayview Hunters Point and build new ones.
West Coast ports shut on May Day
In San Francisco, more than a thousand people marched from Local 10’s union hall, led by the Local 10 Drill Team, along the Embarcadero where the 1934 Big Strike took place.
‘You’re lucky; that officer shot somebody last week’
The police officer took pictures of himself covered in blood, complaining of a hurt right hand and shoulder. Those injuries were caused by repeatedly punching my brother in the face.