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Right outside this stadium, police are killing our children
Interview with Denika Chatman, mother of SFPD murder victim Kenneth Harding, broadcast on KPFA’s Morning Mix/ Block Report on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 8 a.m. The Morning Mix with JR – January 18, 2012 at...
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1,500 strong march against slavery
by Malaika Kambon The Oakland contingent begins the three-quarter mile march to plantation San Quentin. In front are Melvin Dickson, Jabari Shaw and Ibrahim Moss; Gerald Sanders is behind them. –...
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Fly Benzo, unjustly convicted, will be sentenced Friday
Pack the courtroom for his sentencing Friday, April 20, 9 a.m., in Department 27 at the Hall of Injustice, 850 Bryant St., San Francisco by Alex Schmaus Press conference: Why do we say ‘Free Fly...
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Dregs One’s ‘Wake Up Report on Police Brutality’ features Fly Benzo
Dregs One delivers in-depth commentary on police brutality and how it is affecting communities of color by Crystal Carter San Francisco – Oscar Grant. Kenneth Harding. Trayvon Martin. These are just a...
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Protesting police murder of Alan Blueford and war on Afrikans
by Malaika Kambon “Oro en paz, fierro en guerra” (“Gold in peace, iron in war”) – Motto of the San Francisco Police Department Alan Blueford’s family testified passionately at the May 15 Oakland City...
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Oakland police chief confronted and shut down at Justice 4 Alan Blueford...
Compare the response in Hunters Point when San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr attempted to hold a townhall on July 20, 2011, four days after police murdered Kenneth Harding, 19 (video below) Chris...
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Fly Benzo fights bans from Mendell Plaza and West Point
Pack the courtroom Wednesday, May 30, 1:30 p.m., San Francisco Superior Court, 400 McAllister St., Dept 514 by Earl Black DeBray Carpenter, aka Fly Benzo, a straight-A college student, is following in...
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The San Francisco Black Film Festival is back!
by Minister of Information JR Summertime in the Bay Area is nothing without all of the music, food and film festivals. If you were under a rock in April, you missed the Oakland International Film...
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Remembering Kenneth Harding: No stop ‘n Frisco!
Shut down Muni Monday, July 16, beginning at 6 a.m., 14th and Market, San Francisco by Willie Ratcliff Desperate cries rising from a crowd of hundreds pierced the peaceful sunny summer Saturday...
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SFPD can’t stop and frisk, so they turn to ‘hunting’ and ‘wolf packing’
Update: The name of the young man brutalized by SFPD at 24th and Mission is now known. He is 18-year-old Kevin Clark, a student at City College. The ANSWER Coalition is sponsoring, in the words of...
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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 the Oscar...
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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.” Hundreds rallied in Oscar Grant Plaza at Oakland City Hall at 4 p.m. Sunday to protest the Zimmerman trial...
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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. Marchers in Anaheim carried a sea of...
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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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