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The plague of Virginia prisoners dying from medical neglect
At the Cancer Center, I met dozens of other imprisoned men with cancer. Every one of them had a horror story of suffering gross medical neglect or denied care leading to the dangerous, often torturous, advances of their diseases.
The Peacock Lounge revitalizes itself with Jazz Fridays
Black music is gaining a new foothold with the revamped Peacock Lounge and Gold Room.
A songsational salute to Black women worldwide
All too often, the value of the feminine gender goes underestimated – at bargain-basement prices not penthouse-level ones.
Diamonds drenched in blood: Unmasking Israel’s role in the Congolese crisis
The Israeli diamond industry garners prestigious accolades and recognition at home -- starkly contrasting with its role in fueling conflict and destabilization in resource-rich nations like the Congo.
Mumia on Gaza: War against the fleas
The Palestinians are the indigenous people of the region. They are thus equivalent to the Navajo, Apache and Seminoles of the West, subjected to the settler colonialism of the invaders. It is they who have a right to exist.
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 2 p.m. This will be a free show for the...
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 the early detection of breast cancer in Bayview Hunters Point,...
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 and mainstream media colluded to get most of the citizenry...
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 Daly City was filled with a seated and standing room...
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 on tour with Tony, Toni, Tone and Keidraonstage in Ghana,...
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.