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.
LoveLife Foundation is putting love back in our communities
“Our annual Oakland’s Finest Black Tie Gala and College Scholarship Drive raises funds to give college scholarships to deserving Black youth to attend four-year colleges,” says Lacy.
‘DA Jenkins is enabling hate in our backyard’
Jenkins’ incitement comes as heightened anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim rhetoric has reached a fever pitch in reaction to violence and war in Israel and Palestine.
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 ...
Justice long overdue: redevelopment to reparations
Persistent work by community activists advising the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII) has effectively transformed the Certificate of Preference (COP) program, a program designed to fail, into a vehicle for long overdue justice.
‘Out of the Darkness’ comes an artist!
You can check out “Out of the Darkness” on Sunday, Oct. 8, 1 p.m.- 6 p.m., at 1981 Sutter St., San Francisco.
‘Crowns’ comes to the Bay Area Sept. 9 through Oct. 6
“Crowns” plays at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek from Sept. 9 - Oct. 6, 2023.
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.