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A look at the Bay View’s fabulously successful 2020 fundraiser!
The SF Bay View’s 2020 held Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20-21, combined a COVID-era Zoom gathering with an actual gathering at Mendell Plaza, across the street from the newspaper’s office in the heart...
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Justice for Kevin Clark! Stop racist police brutality!
by the ANSWER Coalition With a banner reading “From the Mission District to the whole Bay Area – Stop Racist Police Brutality,” over 300 community members rallied against the most recent case of police...
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Taser community forums raise unanswered questions
by Carol Harvey Forced by the San Francisco Police Commission’s own Feb. 23, 2011, resolution requiring community outreach on whether to put tasers in SFPD officers’ hands, Police Chief Greg Suhr and...
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Superintendent implicated in cover-up of Oakland School Police killing of...
by Laura Savage Perhaps you’ve heard or read the name Raheim Brown Jr. He’s the 20-year-old Black man who was beaten then shot and killed by Oakland School Police Department Sgt. Bhatt. In January 2011...
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Crooked laws, crooked cops
by Ronald Thomas I am a 28-year-old Black man from Troy, Alabama, locked down at Holman Maximum Security Prison in Atmore, Alabama. While in segregation (lock up), a brotha gave me a stack of Bay View...
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Killer cop vengeance: Was the OPD killing of Alan Blueford a retaliatory hit?
by Malaika H Kambon Oddly enough, Floyd “Money” Mayweather fought and defeated Robert Guerrero on May 4, 2013, just one day prior to the candlelight vigil and community memorial organized by JAB, the...
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The acquittal of a murderer
by Kiilu Nyasha The long-awaited verdict in the Zimmerman trial was incredible – “not guilty.” Listening carefully to the trial judge’s detailed instructions to the six-juror panel (amazing in itself),...
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Mass march against police brutality in Anaheim: Basta ya!
by Malaika Kambon There was an ocean of signs in a sea of banners of struggle and liberation in front of Anaheim’s City Hall and the adjacent park on July 21, 2013. The signs held faces of those cut...
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Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre’s ‘Between me and the other world’
Review by Wanda Sabir With the close of the year drawing near, I’d like to reflect on the thematic nuances seen this fall season regarding Blackness, its connotation a tension which never quite seems...
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Our people – our evolution: ‘Emmett Till: An American Hero’
See the Tavia Percia Theatre Company production at Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland, Saturday, Feb. 1, 7 and 9 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 2, 3 and 5 p.m., tickets at...
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To win justice for Michael Brown, send the Black press to Ferguson, Missouri
Listen below to JR’s first interviews: ‘Live From Ferguson: St. Louis reporter Dani Rae speaks’ and ‘Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby’ Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant, in Ferguson’ by SF Bay View This is the official...
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The inauguration of Mayor Ed Lee: We have nothing to lose but our chains
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Poor News Network “You can’t come in,” the oddly butler-esque dressed sheriff stopped me, my 12-year-old son Tiburcio and literally hundreds of members of the public at...
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Celebrate 40 years of life in the Black Community: The SF Bay View...
San Francisco Black Film Festival director Kali O’Ray and SF Bay View associate editor JR Valrey are making a movie about the Bay View’s 40-year history of liberation journalism. It’s a work in...
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SFPD gets away with murder(s); Department of Justice comes to town
by Carl Finamore San Francisco is touted by conservative detractors and liberal boosters alike as the nation’s most progressive city. This is still true in many ways, even amidst towering symbols of...
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Remembering Oakland rebel Lovelle Mixon
The People’s Minister of Information JR reads his commentary, “Police 2, Oakland residents 4,” in the aftermath of the killing of Lovell Mixon and him murdering four Oakland police officers. The...
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The Frisco 5 statement on this afternoon’s phone call from Mayor Ed Lee plus...
After 14 days of hunger striking, Equipto speaks about the aims of SF5 by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey After hunger striking for 14 days, Equipto speaks on his health and the aims,...
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In loving memory of Mike Brown
Mike Brown, heart and soul of Inner City Youth, was devoted to giving youngsters a bright future. – Photo: Francisco Da Costa Community activist, retired civil service employee and U.S. Navy veteran,...
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Rebuilt Bayview Opera House opens to community concerns
by Lee Hubbard The hub of Hunters Point at Third and Oakdale was buzzing with traffic and throngs of people as they assembled outside of the Bayview Opera House. The Moon Candy soul band was on the...
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Why the rash of Bay Area police shootings?
by Davey D Last week I noted that there had been a rash of police shootings all over the Bay Area and some of y’all thought I was literally seeing or making up things. Well over the Memorial Day...
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City attacks Black culture to erase Blacks from San Francisco
Bayview Opera House Executive Director Barbara Ockel’s attack on Black culture is to secretly promote gentrification and Shipyard developer Lennar’s political agenda This fence surrounding the...
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