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Yes on Prop G: Let’s make affordable housing accessible to those who need it...

Prop G, the Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund, is on the November 2024 ballot in San Francisco. by Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund Coalition It’s no secret that San Francisco is facing a severe...

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‘Free Your Mind SF’ campaign shines light on mental health awareness in...

Yoga’s not foreign. Black people brought it from Africa. Why not learn to use it to free YOUR mind? Free Your Mind SF, held at the Ruth Williams Opera House Oct. 25, was a FREE event that offered an...

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Bay Area’s culinary stars: 2024 Brunch Masters Program unveils top chefs

”This year’s chefs exemplify Big Black Brunch’s innovation,” says founder Bivett Brackett. “We’re excited to share their flavors with the Bay Area every Sunday from November 2024 to March 2025. The...

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The bomb in our bodies: The Nuclear Cluster at Hunters Point 

Arieann Harrison, founder and director of the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, a strong ally of Dr. Sumchai’s Hunters Point Biomonitoring, speaks at a rally with students from KIPP College Prep in...

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Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie begins journey with Bayview community lunch at Gumbo...

Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie is greeted by chef Dontaye Ball, owner of Gumbo Social in Bayview. – Photo: Kevin Epps  I recently received an invitation to attend a Community Lunch with San Francisco’s new...

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Safeguarding the future: Why Malcolm X Elementary School deserves our support

A packed room of parents, students, educators and community members turned out Oct. 17 at Malcolm X Academy Elementary to voice concerns over the planned closure of the school, one of 13 then facing...

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Black Tulip calls for action and a cultural shift in Oakland for Black...

Tomisha Wilson and Alie Jones build an altar in honor of Tomisha’s sister, Nia Wilson, an 18-year-old murdered at MacArthur BART Station in 2018. Tomisha is president of the Nia Wilson Foundation. –...

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Potential Oakland mayoral candidate Allyssa Victory weighs in on local...

Allyssa Victory  by JR Valrey, The People’s Minister of Information On election day 2024, residents of Oakland voted to recall Mayor Sheng Thao, the first mayor to be recalled in Oakland, and District...

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How do you incarcerate culture?

These men, known as the “four main reps,” Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos, George Franco and Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, conceived, planned and led the historic 2011-2013 California mass hunger strikes...

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Exposed: The human radiation experiments at Hunters Point

Hundreds of blue-collar shipyard workers were exposed to potentially dangerous amounts of radiation while attempting to “decontaminate” the USS Gasconade and other vessels hit by a 1946 atomic bomb...

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Vibrant evening in Japantown showcases art, culture and San Francisco’s Black...

Ericka Scott, the owner of Honey Art Studio and Gallery, joins artist Ariane Gilmore, whose powerful and evocative work is on display in the lobby of Hotel Kabuki. Their collaboration brought life to...

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We will not go

California settler towns wage a war on our houseless bodies; we fight back! Four tents painted ‘Where’ ‘do’ ‘we’ ‘go’ by PNN by Tiny @povertyskola, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio Swept and swept...

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San Francisco Public Defender’s Office celebrates 25 years of its Clean Slate...

San Francisco Supervisors Shamann Walton, Myrna Melgar, Connie Chan, Hillary Ronen and Dean Preston joined Public Defender Mano Raju and some of the state’s leading safety advocates on the morning of...

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Jhacorey Wyatt may be sentenced for the wrong crime

Jhacorey Wyatt in 2020 with his daughter, Lydia. — Photo courtesy Public Defender’s Office by Griffin Jones Twenty-eight-year-old Jhacorey Wyatt has spent an entire prison term awaiting his sentence...

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Post-Brown billionaires: The state of the city and nation

Unbridled oligarchy rears its ugly head. – Art: Kenya Ratcliff, AI by Bay View Editorial Board If you were paying any attention to demographic and economic forecasts in the 1990s, you would have...

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Ode to a beautiful son bullied to death

Ode to a beautiful son bullied to death  Jose Emiliano’s Abuelito (Grandfather) at the ceremony for Jose at Santa Clara High School – Photo: Momii Palapaz, PNN  Jose Emiliano Zambrano, 14, committed...

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Mass blockade at Travis Air Force Base protests the arming of Israel

‘Stop Travis No US weapons for genocide!’ shutdown all 4 entrances 112024 by People’s Arms Embargo by The People’s Arms Embargo, Popular Resistance Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, Calif. – On Nov....

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SNYs, SPIs and other beasts of CMC-East

This is the poster for an art exhibit currently on display at Scripps College that features the work of death row prisoner and artist James P. Anderson and other prisoners. – Posters courtesy of...

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Will Gov. Newsom’s new film and TV tax credit prioritize diversity?

Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D- Los Angeles) and Assemblymember Tina McKinnor (D-Inglewood) voiced their opinions during a news conference at the State Capitol on July 13, 2023. The lawmakers...

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Three percent of California’s doctors are Black: We can do better

by Edward Henderson, California Black Media Only 3% of doctors in California are Black, compared to about 5% nationwide. The California Black Health Network (CBHN), Charles R. Drew University of...

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