New affordable Treasure Island residences sit on radioactive ground
I videoed the radioactive Starburst Barracks many times strolling under the trees through shadows and shafts of sun. It was sad to see the denuded buildings in 2016 after the trees were taken out. by...
View ArticleSummer of Black art and music at the Ruth Williams Opera House
Artist Miela Foster with friends. Behind is her art on display at The Ruth opera house. by Kevin Epps The month of June set off an indelible vibrant art and music experience at The Ruth, marking the...
View Article‘Lake Walking, Revolutionary Talking,’ a Karla Brundage choreopoem
Karla Brundage and cast rehearse “Lake Walking, Revolutionary Talking,” which will premiere at the Black Arts Movement House (BAM House) Aug. 9 and 10. – Photo: Kia Shaun Walton PHOTO: Karla...
View ArticleHBCU students tour San Francisco’s Black community
HBCU students visiting Linda Brooks Burton Branch Library in Bayview Hunters Point are, from left, Senja Schwoeffermann, Howard University, Jaela Williams, Stillman College, Victoria Studevent, Morgan...
View ArticleFamily of Terry Williams ‘disgusted’ by city’s response after racist attacks,...
‘The way they did me and my family, I’m like: Fuck San Francisco’ by Eleni Balakrishnan, Mission Local, and Griffin Jones, SF Bay View Terry Williams, left, and his sister, Letisha Humphrey in Alamo...
View ArticleFrom The Heart: Empowering youth and nourishing families in Bayview Hunters...
From The Heart youth – from left, Blessin, Mehki, Vanessa, Kenya, Areona, Omaron and Nyjil – show their respect for their community by participating in a District 10 cleanup. by Sabrina Hall...
View ArticleKamala Harris’s environmental deceptions
Greenaction leads one of countless protests over the past almost 30 years against the deadly pollution that sickens Bayview Hunters Point. by Ann Garrison Kamala Harris’s vaunted “environmental...
View ArticleCalifornia’s historic partnership to save journalism creates a critical way...
California Black Media Executive Director Regina Wilson by Regina Wilson, California Black Media Last week, California arrived at a turning point in the decades-long quest to find a solution to the...
View ArticleKings of Cali Motorcycle Club celebrates 20-year anniversary
Attorney Jason Ross, left, celebrates 20 years of growth and giving and plans future community-building projects with Kings of Cali founder Donnie Robinson, center, and Rare Breed MC Jus-D, right. by...
View ArticleBlack San Francisco Matters
This is a 2014 architect’s rendering of housing development then proposed at Candlestick and Hunters Point. by Julian Davis and Ed Donaldson Reader alert: The next OCII Commission meeting is on...
View ArticleSFPD names suspect in hate crimes against Terry Williams
A photo from April Martin Chartrand’s Facebook page by Griffin Jones San Francisco police have named a suspect in the racist death threats against Terry Williams, a Black dog walker and lifelong...
View ArticleMore than an athlete: The rise of Jaylen Brown
PHOTO: Cecil Brown, Jaylen Brown UC Berkeley Professor Cecil Brown with his former student, Jaylen Brown, who recently founded XChange Oakland, a nonprofit initiative aimed at generating $5 billion in...
View ArticleIt’s time for Gov. Newsom to do the right thing!
Gov. Gavin Newsom “As mayor, Newsom focused on development projects in Hunters Point and Treasure Island.” – Mayoralty of Gavin Newsom, Jan. 8, 2004 – Jan. 10, 2011 – Wikipedia by Ahimsa Porter...
View ArticleAll-Black crew denied work at Hunters Point site despite HUD rule
Residents sit for lunch on their ninth day being denied work on the Shoreview Apartments renovation. Left to right: Tyrone Corley, Lamonte Lamonte, Luke Lyons, Te’Angelo Harrison and Dominique Forks....
View ArticleJoin the fight against the 13th Amendment and its modern implications
Minister King X Pyeface holding 19th century manacles, including a ball and chain. SF Bay View is publishing this press release as a courtesy to our partner organizations, California Prison Focus...
View ArticleNew Real Estate Commission rules endanger Black real estate professionals and...
This is the goal, the joy of homeownership. The challenge is to end, not expand, the Black-white inequality gap. New agent compensation rules threaten Black real estate professionals and create new...
View ArticleThe Black Press, the Black Vote and media dollars
As Blacks won the right to vote in the US, it was Black women who preached, prodded and pushed their people to the polls. In Hunters Point, the Black women leaders known as the Big Five built a...
View ArticleCalifornia has added doula services to Medi-Cal coverage
by Edward Henderson, California Black Media Medi-Cal, California’s version of the federal medical assistance program Medicaid, has announced that it is expanding access to maternal health, including...
View ArticleSweeping houseless communities to nowhere … while silencing our solutions
RoofLessRadioSOMA reporter Sr. Asuncion with his bus ticket to Nowhere Houseless people create our own research investigation to “prove” that these violent sweeps orders are killing us while we...
View ArticleGreen Jobs for Justice: Real solutions for Southeast SF’s future
At the Fillmore Center, a woman talks with Aaron Peskin about Black community priorities. The long history of environmental injustice in our city’s southeast neighborhoods is no secret. From...
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