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San Francisco Apologizes for its anti-Black Racism
“The San Francisco Reparations Plan outlines more than 100 additional ways for the City of San Francisco to demonstrate the sincerity of that apology by proactively creating pathways to equity for Black San Franciscans.” - Tinisch Hollins
Israeli massacre of starving Palestinians prompts Biden to promise air-dropped food
In the almost five months of war, there have been more children, more journalists, more medical personnel, more U.N. staff killed more than anywhere else in the world in any conflict.
Yeshua’s Second Chance fights for a second chance
Gwendolyn Watkins remains steadfast in her determination to revive Yeshua’s Second Chance Foundation with a new fire truck manufacturing company she intends to name “Pride of America.”
Spotlight on Virginia prisons: Why Virginia’s remote prisons need to be publicly exposed and...
Red Onion State Prison officials want to keep what happens in these dens of racism and corruption secret and go to every extreme to silence those who aim to expose them.
Legendary filmmaker Kevin Epps takes the reins of the Bay View
He’s Kevin Epps, San Francisco’s best known filmmaker and the favorite son of Bayview Hunters Point, the pride of the community where he was born and raised.
Advocates weigh in on Calif. Black Caucus reparations package
The California Legislative Black Caucus introduces a 14-bill reparations package at the State Capitol on Feb. 21, 2024
The current state of reparations: case studies from key American cities
The demand for reparations is not merely a call for monetary compensation; it is a fight for recognition and justice and for the country to live up to its ideals of equality and liberty
SF Police Commission votes to curb racially-biased police stops
The San Francisco Police Commission voted Feb. 21 to enact a policy to curb SFPD’s use of racially-biased pretext stops.
Trade unions segregate construction in Oakland
Once upon a time, when I was an innocent girl and started in this industry working for the City of Oakland, some of the wages were different.
World premiere of Ashley Smiley’s ‘Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad’
Smiley, a playwright and San Francisco native with long standing personal ties to the Bayview Hunters Point, Mission, Fillmore and Sunnydale neighborhoods, shares, “The biggest thing that I want people to think about is the human component of gentrification.”
Treatment not tents? Vote NO on Prop 1 and Prop F
by Tiny Gray Garcia aka povertyskola
“OWWW, OWWWWWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWW, OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.” Bobby, a houseless neuro-divergent relative, had been screaming in two-second intervals from the bed he was forced to lie on in the nursing...
Tomiko Iyalla: Oakland Afrobeats ambassador
Tomiko Iyalla talks about her connection with Afrobeats
‘The Wiz’ returns: There’s no place like the Ruth Williams Bayview Opera House
The Bayview Opera House beat to the rhythm of "The Wiz."
LandBack: ‘We have together set the Shellmound free!’
“We owe this victory to the ancestors and every single person who stood beside us in this fight. We did it!” said Deja Gould.
Election issues in Park Merced
“At every polling place, the doors should be open. I don’t want this to happen to anyone else.” - Virginia Marshall
Comrade George, Gaza and the Black Community
How many of us are finding out about the Black community in the Gaza Strip for the first time now?
Palestinian organizers protest Navy vessel said to be headed to Israel
The protest was intended to stop the ship’s departure and denounce former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s press conference celebrating the ship’s maiden voyage.
Horror and hope in Haiti after 20 years of occupation
In the face of repression that has driven hundreds of thousands from their homes, the Haitian people continue to defend their communities and to build new institutions, such as free clinics, cooperatives and schools. The time for solidarity is now.
44th annual Black Cuisine unites Bayview Hunters Point on Saturday, April 27
From its humble beginnings in the senior center at 1706 Yosemite, Black Cuisine has become a community-wide affair, embracing diverse organizations and individuals contributing to its Black cultural flavor.