Urban Alchemy, a model for hope in San Francisco’s street team landscape
What sets Urban Alchemy apart is its composition of long-term offenders who have experienced the same conditions they now seek to improve.
Child hands and legs and memory: two poems on Palestine
Not wanting to be one of the missing
or one of the unable-to-be-identified killed, the little girl wrote on the inside of her palm in neat Arabic script, “If my hand survived, this is my name,” before she was slain.
Operation Al Aqsa Flood: Palestine, Israel and Resistance
It is no secret that the U.S. is doing everything in its power to thwart the emerging multipolar world order where the vision is less wealth inequality globally and locally inside countries and less big power interference in the domestic affairs of smaller countries.
The LAPD vs. Black Panther Party shootout of Dec. 8, 1969
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, former BPP member Bruce Richard recalled his experience in the Los Angeles chapter which culminated in a shootout. This October, Black Panther History Month 2023, is the right time to revisit that revolutionary history.
Palestine’s Trail of Tears
a Trail of Tears / stretched across time / from Native America / to Palestine
Malcolm X: Zionist ‘Logic’
In short, the Zionist argument to justify Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history ...
Hear Kalimba King Carl Winters play the music that’s in your blood
Carl Winters, the Kalimba King, will be performing at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD) in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 14, at...
Talk with Dr. Betty McGee about breast cancer, the Hunters Point Shipyard and taking...
Concerned Network of Women presents the 2023 African American Breast Cancer Conference Sunday, Oct. 1, 12:30 p.m., 1550 Evans
“After years of providing education on...
Fungi and plant based medicine is becoming more popular
by Minister of Information JR Valrey
From ‘20-’22, there was a scamdemic lockdown in the US and around the world where the governments, Big Pharma...
City Ball remembers San Francisco athletes
by Lee Hubbard
San Francisco – The indoor gym at the San Francisco Christian Center on Mission Street on the border of San Francisco and...
The rise of Hunters Point rapper and actor Money Tut
by Minister of Information JR Valrey
I came across the musical works of Money Tut and the group EIGHTY3, when I was the tour manager...
The Oakland International Film Festival runs through Sept. 23
We are rediscovering Oakland through the Oakland International Film Festival, intending to raise more awareness about these businesses and Oakland in general.
No place for old men
Today, men in their 70s and 80s roll around here in wheelchairs or hobble on walkers or even stroll with the help of canes.
Brick fest meditation
While we participate in these types of activities, I stress the importance of making sure these beautiful Black babies understand that they come from a legacy of master builders, architects and engineers.
Cornel West offers voters a choice
“We can end poverty, endless war, cop cities, mass incarceration and ecological collapse, and provide housing, health care, reproductive rights, reparations, education and thriving wages for all,” Cornell West declared.
Extreme heat and overcrowding make Texas prison hell
The living conditions here on the Coffield Unit are in total violation of the Eighth Amendment. The SPCA would not allow dogs to be housed as we are.
Another victory for People’s Power: My release from solitary confinement
During my time in solitary, officials attempted to stop my cancer treatment at outside hospitals. It was only because of public awareness and protest that my treatment was resumed and recently completed.
20 year anniversary of the Joyce Gordon Gallery: artistic curator Eric Murphy speaks
The importance of having Black owned galleries as with any creative Black owned space is the blessing to showcase and tell our own stories and show artwork that reflect our image and expression.
Remembering Garfield Belfon on African Martyrs Day
“The police become necessary in human society only at that junction of human society when it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got.” – Omali Yeshitela, chairman, African People’s Socialist Party
Niger, West and Central Africa’s current war against neo-colonialism
What is striking and at the center of these changes on the continent, though, are a youth that no longer wants to be subjected to neocolonialism