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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.

The white record execs are so “helpful” to Mike in the movie, we do not get to see that Mike was a shrewd businessman. The movie has no soul or Blackness in it, when at one time MJ was the epitome of Black music and dance.

We pray that Kevin be allowed to raise his children and do his vital work in the community pending appeal.  Kevin has been a model citizen during the 9-plus-year ordeal since the shooting and has proven he is neither a flight risk nor a threat to public safety.  I pray for grace and mercy for all of us. 

The media, the institution designed to hold our systems accountable, failed one of its own. Not by covering the verdict incorrectly, but by treating presence as optional when presence is everything.

The question we should be asking ourselves is not whether socialism has failed, but rather: What country in the world, regardless of its political system, would survive a siege of this magnitude for seven decades?

California’s Castle Doctrine, which allows homeowners and residents to use reasonable — including deadly — force against intruders, was supposed to protect people in that situation. It didn’t protect Epps.

Dr. Butch Ware has earned the full and official endorsement of the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper for governor of California in 2026.

 “There is too much that happened to give anybody the sense that this was a proper prosecution and a proper conviction. They ... did so much wrong in order to bring this man into the criminal justice system.” - Judge Harbin-Forte

GLIDE celebrates its newest initiative — a community barbershop designed to connect men with critical health and support services.

The situation is dire. Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Bill gutted Medicare and Medicaid. This pre-fascist madman highjacked our taxpayer money and gave it to his rich friends. 

The San Francisco Bay View Foundation has launched a new collaboration with Kaiser Permanente San Francisco to support the San Francisco Bay View newspaper internship program.

Cuba has provided Guyana with doctors, scholarships and healthcare for nearly five decades. In return, Guyana's government has turned its back at the moment of Cuba's greatest need.

Malik Seneferu's artistic creation called The Ancestral Constitution Before Juneteenth to Black August pays homage to Black history in the Bay Area.

The historic Ruth Williams Opera House in San Francisco is the venue for a powerful night of reggae, roots and conscious sound as ReggaeTownMusic.com brings together an extraordinary lineup of artists rooted in culture, community and creative expression.

The Black Panther Party Museum announces the opening of the exhibit honoring the life of Oscar Grant III called "Happy Heavenly Birthday, Oscar," on Sunday February 1 for Black History Month.

In the brief time you have left in Congress, you can In the brief time you have left in Congress, you can endorse the Medicare for All Act of 2025 and encourage Gov. Newsom to support the new CalCare legislation.

We mourn each of these murders and condemn them, not only in theory, but in practice by doubling down on our solidarity, organizing and protest. We must look the monster straight in the face and fight it with every tool we have.