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WEBExciting, thought-provoking stories and commentary on the full range of Black trials and triumphs – covering the Black economy, politics, arts, education, history, current events, health, religion – and those of other communities, along with stunning color photography, fill the website and the pages of each paper, a paper so popular that it disappears within hours of hitting the stands.
Meet the 29-year-old activist and attorney chairing California’s ...
WEBDec 22, 2021 · As the task force chair, Moore, 29, aims to use her knowledge of domestic and international human rights to help guide the reparations push for African American descendants of enslaved people who live in California – and perhaps even across the country. She is also an attorney; Moore earned her law …
1968: The strike at San Francisco State
WEBDec 28, 2018 · Fifty years ago, students at San Francisco State embarked on a campus strike that lasted five months – the longest student strike in U.S. history. Led by the Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front, the strike was a high point of student struggle in the revolutionary year of 1968. It was met by ferocious repression, but the strikers persevered and won the first College of Ethnic ...
California prisoners make historic call to end hostilities between ...
WEBSep 12, 2012 · Prisoners in Pelican Bay’s SHU have announced a push to end all hostilities between racial groups within California’s prisons and jails. The handwritten announcement, sent to prison advocacy organizations, is signed by the PBSP-SHU Short Corridor Collective. The statement calls for the cessation of all hostilities between groups to commence Oct. 10, 2012, in all California prisons and ...
It’s true: As San Francisco mayor, Dianne Feinstein did repeatedly …
WEBApr 2, 2019 · Feinstein was furious. At Bradley’s trial, the vice-mayor testified that Feinstein had personally ordered the Fort Sumter flag taken down the next day and delivered to the mayor’s office, only to be shredded and thrown away (WV No. 357, 22 June 1984).After Bradley’s trial ended on June 4 with the jury deadlocked eight to four for acquittal, the DA moved to dismiss all the charges.
U.S. district judge overturns SF jury award in civil suit related to ...
WEBNov 7, 2022 · Cal Poly Humboldt students, supporters and community members gather in solidarity with Charmaine Lawson, mother of murdered student, David Josiah Lawson, for the five and a half year October 2022 Vigil, in the empty space of Arcata Plaza where once stood the statue of racist president William McKinley, the first of offensive colonialist, white supremacist statues to be brought down in the U.S ...
Dr. Raymond Tompkins: How and why does pollution poison …
WEBMar 31, 2016 · Dr. Ray Tompkins, a historian and a scientific expert on the pollution in Bayview Hunters Point, gives an in-depth interview on the history of Black people living, working and being poisoned in a San Francisco neighborhood with over 400 toxic waste sites plus a federal and a state Superfund site. Check him out in his own words.
One year after the recall, former SF School Board Pres. Gabriela …
WEBJan 20, 2023 · It was a group of privileged constituents led by outsiders who didn’t see that as a priority which ultimately resulted in the recall. All of it to take control of yet another commission, another board, that would be fully run by the mayor.
Urban Alchemy, a model for hope in San Francisco’s street team …
WEBNov 11, 2023 · An Urban Alchemy practitioner helps an unhoused man in Civic Center Plaza, first listening to his story. by Rodney Wrice. In the ongoing struggle to address homelessness, addiction and mental health crises on the streets of San Francisco, Mayor London Breed’s initiative to deploy and fund street outreach teams has been met with both praise and scrutiny.
Jamal Hart, grandson of Mumia Abu-Jamal, reflects on the 42 …
WEBJan 29, 2023 · People’s campaigns in recent years have won the freedom of many political prisoners, but there are still many who remain behind enemy lines, right alongside Mumia Abu-Jamal, like Imam Jamil Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, Kamau Sadiki, Ed Poindexter, Veronza Bowers, Ruchell Magee, Kevin Rashid Johnson, Leonard Peltier and …