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Ruchell Cinque Magee has joined the ancestors
Ruchell Cinque Magee joined the ancestors Oct. 17, 2023, after only 81 days of freedom.
The Peacock Lounge revitalizes itself with Jazz Fridays
Black music is gaining a new foothold with the revamped Peacock Lounge and Gold Room.
Supervisor Preston calls for Gaza ceasefire, City Hall swells with support
“Where San Francisco goes, the nation follows and San Francisco has to make its voice known," declared Chris Ballard of Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth.
Dental Robin Hood
The Marin City Health and Wellness Center has been working to restore the type of medical and dental services Dr. Coleman’s center was known for in the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s.
Golden State Warriors, former NBA player host free holiday event at Bayview Hunters Point...
Mistah FAB on Festus Ezali: “Where you are not just showing up but spending time and allocating resources shows a lot. So when he asked me to accompany him, it was a no brainer.”
Monday: Oakland City Council to vote on Gaza ceasefire resolution in special session
Supporting an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza are 66% of all Americans, over 80% of Democrats, and growing numbers of elected officials, including city council and Congress members.
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.
APEC faceoff: Homeless in Gaza, homeless in Huchuin
They put up 12-foot-tall iron fences and have harassed and removed literally hundreds of houseless, disabled elders and folks holding on by a thread to “prepare” for APEC.
Hundreds of Bay Area Jews arrested in the Oakland Federal Building demanding ceasefire in...
"No matter how enlightened you are, if you don’t do something, if you don’t take action, this genocide will continue," said film director Boots Riley.
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.
City College set to collide with CSM football in the battle for the Bay...
"I think each year, City’s team gets better. We’ve had several excellent players and teams, but these players are stronger and faster.”
Back to Red Onion State Prison, site of entrenched racism and abuse
These super-max prisons – Red Onion and Wallen's Ridge – have never been needed. Every justification concocted for their ongoing operations has been exposed as a lie.
Nancy Cato helps us see ourselves through art
“It’s been a blast creating these images in one of the Blackest parts of San Francisco. It’s an honor."
The death of the Hip Hop legend: How corporate rap is killing the Hip...
In today’s era, where the motive is profit over cultural substance, artists are becoming disposable commodities with careers barely lasting a few years.
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.
Homefulness is HEALing
Houseless leaders propose an innovative rent-free housing-healing model for one of San Francisco’s vacant office buildings – City Hall rally Tuesday, Nov. 7, 10:30 a.m. Be there!
Rashid: Prison officials plant a street weapon in a vacant cell, then move me...
After I was moved to solitary, numerous officials admitted this incident was a premeditated set up. I was also told that the entire ploy was to create a pretext to have me emergency transferred to the notoriously abusive and racist Virginia prisons Red Onion or Wallens Ridge.
Medicare (Dis)Advantage
The Medicare Advantage mailers in your mailbox may look appealing, but beware: They are a disadvantage that endangers the solvency of the entire Medicare program.