News & Views
Bay Area lawyer Adante Pointer talks police accountability after the latest...
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.
23 years of oversight ends and Oakland Police are still killing...
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.
Surveillance data centers are coming to San Francisco
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.
The truth behind Treasure Island’s tricky history
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.
Save gashouse cove before San Francisco loses another working waterfront
Caption 1: View of Gashouse Cove from Fort Mason photo provided by Maggie Hallahan Caption 2: Map of active maritime refueling stations in the San Francisco Bay Area photo provided by HSC Working Group In August 2025, SF Bay View published “Rotting from the coast in: Sea Scouts displaced, waterfront in decline,” an...
Dr. Fauci pleading the 5th and Tulsi Gabbard’s release of COVID...
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s reported Fifth Amendment pleas and Tulsi Gabbard’s release of COVID-19 files reignite explosive questions about the pandemic’s origins, government secrecy and public accountability. But for Black America, the article argues, these revelations only confirm a centuries-old truth: mistrust of the U.S. medical establishment was never unfounded.
‘She followed the rules,’ says lawyer for woman arrested by ICE...
Plainclothes ICE agents arrested Chantal Morales Rojas as she boarded an Oakland-bound flight – but did they have the right to take her? Her lawyer says Rojas followed the rules and was legally authorized to live and work in the U.S.
Behind Enemy Lines
Black August Artist Donald ‘C-Note’ Hooker wins release after 30 years...
After more than 30 years behind bars, acclaimed prison artist Donald "C-Note" Hooker has won parole after a California Parole Board acknowledged that his claim of innocence was "highly plausible." In this Black August feature, C-Note reflects on his fight for freedom, the legacy of Black August, and how art became both his resistance and his voice.
Incarcerated rapper William Lollis fights back against blatantly racist, foul-mouthed officials...
I am pleading a California Racial Justice Act violation against court-appointed counsel Beth Lee, who accused me of committing the crimes I was being prosecuted for. As I made the attempt to set the record straight and assert my innocence, she interrupted me and blurted out, "Stupid Black son-of-a-bitch prick motherfucker!"
Who are the real experts on prisons?
After spending nearly 31 years behind prison walls, including time in solitary confinement, Uhuru Rowe argues that the people best equipped to explain the realities of incarceration are not academics or policy experts, but those who survived it firsthand. In this powerful reflection, Rowe challenges readers to reconsider who gets recognized as an authority on the prison industrial complex, drawing on decades of lived experience to expose the violence, isolation and dehumanization that statistics alone can never fully capture. His message is simple: if society is serious about prison abolition and justice, it must center the voices of those who have endured the system from the inside.
The 20-year battle to free Jeff ‘Ace’ Walker from wrongful conviction
Jeffery “Ace” Walker is representing himself in court, during this phase of his 20 year battle. Navigating the legal system while being captive within the legal system, is a daunting and complex task. Ace is grateful for the continued support of community members being present during the many phases of his journey.
Kwame Beans Shakur: Contradictions on organizing in post-neo-colonial north amerikkka
We are not in an underdeveloped third world nation whose people are born keenly aware of Our oppression and captive status. Our colonial experience is unique and has been altered and mastered over 400+ years into its own slave science.
Culture Currents
The revision and origin of Black August
Black August honors the revolutionary lives and sacrifices of George and Jonathan Jackson and other imprisoned freedom fighters. Kiilu Nyasha traces its origins, meaning and enduring call for unity, resistance and liberation.
Trap Nature: Oakland edition
Oakland’s Scid “Trap Nature” Howard brings nature and wildlife education to the hood. He talks about exploring the wilderness, connecting with animals and making science accessible to Black communities.
Stretch out your issues
Yoga instructor CJ Spears believes healing begins by slowing down, listening to your body and making space for your emotions. In this conversation with JR Valrey, she discusses her approach to the ancient practice.
Stretch out your issues
Yoga instructor CJ Spears believes healing begins by slowing down, listening to your body and making space for your emotions. In this conversation with JR Valrey, she discusses the ancient practice.
Obsidian Healing Camp is rejuvenating minds in deep West Oakland
A Black and Indigenous-owned quarter-acre sanctuary in deep West Oakland is redefining what community healing can look like.
Bay View Archives
Welcome to the Bay View Archives! With a $20,000 grant from The San Francisco Foundation, we can finally formalize and publicize our trove of Black journalism from 1976 to 2008.
July 2019 marks 11 years from the date of the final weekly print edition of the Bay View News July 2, 2008. For our first archival series, we will be pulling articles focused on historical examples of Bay Area communities’ activism toward self-preservation and against the inaction of a rapidly gentrifying city. July 2008 was a perfect example of such movements. From the Quesada Kids Community Fruit Stand to the protests against the illegal eviction from Oakland’s California Hotel, Black activist communities in the Bay worked to create alternative modes of living and acting, forming environments centered around mutual empowerment and advocacy.
Air district votes to fine Lennar
“How can you trust a criminal to preside over their own trial? We already know that the people who are supposed to be watching out for the health and safety of the community are paid contractors with the Lennar Corp."
‘Master Developer’ is plantation mentality
We won’t stir up toxic dust as Lennar has that measurably poisons our children. We know the Shipyard is still not fit for human habitation. We’re not stupid.
Big victory for California Hotel tenants
“The tenants prevailed. There was no one from Oakland Community Housing appearing in court today to oppose the tenants’ needs or Judge Richard Keller’s ruling. This is a big victory for the people.”