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If you want peace, fight for justice
Editorial by Willie Ratcliff Bay View publisher Willie Ratcliff speaks at Saturday’s townhall at Olivet Missionary Baptist Church about the importance of working for economic opportunities along with...
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Jobs now!
Bay Area Black Builders, uniting workers and contractors, will stop at nothing until our community is working again! by Joseph Debro “No Blacks working! That’s what I see at every construction jobsite...
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Why are no Blacks working?
Get involved in the fight for economic justice at Bay Area Black Builders’ meeting Saturday, Jan. 16, 12 noon, 1099 Sunnydale, San Francisco by Joseph Debro, Bay Area Black Builders Bay Area Black...
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Do the right thing! Elect James Keys District 6 Supervisor
James Keys, Black candidate for D6 Supervisor, endorsed by current Supervisor Chris Daly, places people before politricks ! Exclusive interview by mesha Monge-Irizarry Supervisor Chris Daly has...
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New book highlights MLK’s labor and social justice work
'All Labor Has Dignity' by Martin Luther King Jr. cover Martin Luther King Jr. led the American civil rights movement, but his deep and active commitment to labor and social justice is often...
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Why so few Black men are working
by Joseph Debro To fill the need for electricians on three major hospital construction projects, the long dormant union training hall at 3033 Alvarado St. has started a new class, where retired...
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10 things you didn’t know about Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis Rosa Parks, always the picture of dignity, is fingerprinted after her arrest Dec. 1, 1955. 1. Parks had been thrown off the bus a decade earlier by the same bus driver – for...
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Celebrating celebrating?
by Mumia Abu-Jamal TV screens, newspaper pages and radio stations have been replaying, reprinting and rebroadcasting dark, grainy black and while film, photos and audiotape of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...
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Mandela, America, Israel and systems of oppression
by Askia Muhammad Washington (FinalCall.com) – In the 23 years since Nelson Mandela walked from his notorious Robben Island prison cell, leaving behind the rotting corpse of South Africa’s system of...
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Why the West loves Mandela and hates Mugabe
by Stephen Gowans In the wake of Nelson Mandela’s death, hosannas continue to be sung to the former ANC leader and South African president from both the left, for his role in ending the institutional...
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West Oakland unites to keep Black families in their homes!
To stay updated, text @OaklandHomeDefenders to 23559 for action alerts for Annette Miller and other black homeowners and long-term residents of Oakland who are fighting foreclosure and eviction! by...
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White terrorist slays nine in Charleston church founded by Denmark Vesey on...
Democracy Now! reports, “Around 5:30 a.m. this morning (June 27), Bree Newsome climbed to the top of the flagpole flying the Confederate battle flag on the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol,...
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Bay Area Black doctor plans to repatriate to South Africa
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey Now that we are in the last two years of the Obama dream, people are starting to wake up to the fact that it doesn’t matter what color the face of the...
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Victory for the Black Friday 14
by Dave Welsh Oakland – On Black Friday 2014, following the police murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, 14 Black activists chained themselves together on a BART transit platform “to prevent...
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Why Hillary Clinton doesn’t deserve the Black vote
From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted – and Hillary Clinton supported – decimated Black America. by Michelle Alexander Hillary Clinton loves Black people. And Black...
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Join ILWU Local 10 for May Day 2016 ‘National Day of Mourning’ for victims of...
by Clarence Thomas, past secretary-treasurer for Local 10 Bernie Sanders embraces Danny Glover at a rally in Greenville, S.C., on Feb. 21, 2016. Former NAACP President Ben Jealous is behind them. –...
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SNCC Legacy Project endorses the Movement for Black Lives Policy Platform
by Jamilah King A group of civil rights era activists have passed the torch to a younger generation, so to speak. Leaders of SNCC James Forman, Cleveland Sellers, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Stokely...
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Ten ways to fight Trump
This will be the seed-bed for a progressive populist uprising, if we organize, coalesce and make it so by Christopher D. Cook “We matter” is the message from the 99 percent who are not the intended...
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SF plan to invest in Black community
Mayor London Breed joins the family and Hunters Point neighbors to mourn the death of 6-year-old Jace Young, killed by a stray bullet on the Fourth of July, the wrenching death a symptom of the...
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Broadened tech access for Blacks and Hispanics slowed by FCC
During the pandemic, Hispanics, Blacks and other people of color have made up 23 percent of job losses, with an unemployment rate double that of Whites. The urgent need to correct the deep digital...
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