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WAA REEM: International Fashion and Music Week in San Francisco June 16-18
The WAA REEM concept, which means in Burkina Faso-West African language “Come and have fun or come enjoy the vibe,” is an idea born in 2013 in Africa
Oakland Strokes Youth Summer workshops teach the sport of rowing
We run summer camps in June out at San Pablo reservoir and in July at our boathouse in Oakland. We host Learn to Row days for organizations and schools we partner with as well.
Shoplifting on stolen land: debt-lying, surviving and dying from hunger
Bread lines, free boxes and saviors are not what poor people need or want. We need wealth-hoarders to transform into radical redistributors, Mama Earth de-occupiers, ComeUnity Reparators and change-makers.
New Ebony Alert brings new attention to an old issue
Black women need community support and oversight to keep us all safe!
Speaking of Crack …
“Three Strikes and You’re Out” resulted in people going in young and spending their entire life in prison for offenses that should never have been felonies.
Black New World Media Awards night is coming June 3 at the African American...
Come out and celebrate the achievements of Black Media makers
Support Dr. Mutulu Shakur
Dr. Mututlu Shakur's love for the people is highlighted by Mumia Abu Jamal
San Francisco’s Carnaval is right around the corner
Just be ready to absorb different colors, costumes, and languages.
Currency Wars: FedNow and BRICS
BRICS is headed by the nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa with more than a dozen other nations from all corners of the world waiting to get in
Hunger in the face of hubris
Food banks across California are bracing for a feared spike in hunger due to cut resources and inflated food prices.
National Fentanyl Awareness Day: Press conference SF City Hall May 10, 11 a.m.
In San Francisco, the deadly fentanyl crisis is playing out in a distinctly anti-Black racist pattern that is all too familiar.
Political prisoner and wife get mural in East Oakland
Jamal Hart, Mumia’s grandson, has kept up the fight to bring his grandfather home.
‘7 Minutes in Heaven’ review
“7 minutes In Heaven” was a cinematic masterpiece that I would watch again.
Killed for being hungry: the murder of Banko Brown
“He was the type of person to give you his shirt off his back, That’s how we knew him.”
The Oakland Unified School District one year after pandemic lockdown
The West Oakland Community is invited to join the visioning discussion on May 2.
Black Terminus brings the Black Panthers into Augmented Reality
If I was going to bring the Panthers in AR, it would be on a Black-owned platform created by me.
Photographing the ‘68 Olympics: talking wit’ photographer Jeffrey Blankfort
It’s difficult, more than a half century later, to compare the energy in the stadium before and after Smith’s and Carlos’s fist raising
Alameda County’s new D.A. Price is prosecuting police for misconduct in a historic way
OPD misconduct cases reopened
Oakland’s Kinfolx is on top of the wave of new businesses in Oakland after...
we wanted to ensure that our community had a stake and place to call home in this rapidly changing area of Oakland.
Destroying a homeless peoples’ solution to homelessness-
I watched, shouted, stomped and paced back and forth on that weary stretch of Wood Street ...