Bay View turns 40!
Bay View turns 40! Part 1 Editorial by Bay View publisher Dr. Willie Ratcliff It’s 2016, 40 years since Muhammad al-Kareem founded the New Bayview, now renamed the San Francisco Bay View, in 1976....
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Dem jobs plan in Congress offers racial equity in hiring, elevating minority-owned small businesses, new jobs building clean drinking water systems in areas like Flint – in contrast, Trump will sell...
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An interview with Rick Sterling by Ann Garrison Al-Nusra fighters on the march in Syria Late last week, the Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump will end covert support of militias...
View ArticleSahleem Tindle’s family demands BART killer cop be charged with murder
by Aaron Levy-Wolins Community members and family of Sahleem Tindle, a 28-year-old father of two, killed by a BART Police officer in January, packed a BART meeting March 12 to demand that justice be...
View ArticleNoose at SF highrise reaffirms lockout of Blacks from construction
by Dr. Willie and Mary Ratcliff Civil rights attorney John Burris holds a press conference for construction workers Craig Ogans and Douglas Russell to report the nooses, racist graffiti and death...
View ArticleBring Amani to the Bay to be our new Bay View editor
Passing the torch Introduction by Mary Ratcliff One evening when Amani wanted to see some sights, we stopped at San Francisco’s palatial City Hall, where we were let in by a friendly deputy, A....
View ArticleMos def sumthin-sumthin to vote for!
Afrikans deserve Reparations! Cause Black lives truly matter! Asé. by Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at 6258 AAC (November 2018 JC-PG) Greetings of IMANI (FAITH) Esteemed G-o-d(desse)s,...
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by John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News The Washington Post last week wrote one of a series of articles about the federal shutdown that focused on the criminal justice system. The reporters included...
View ArticleMumia Abu-Jamal: Remembering Martin King
by Mumia Abu-Jamal These Black soldiers in Long Binh, Viet Nam, know what side they’re on. Drafted into a war they oppose that would kill thousands of them, on Jan. 15, 1971, 15 years before Dr. King’s...
View ArticleHonoring Kobe Bryant during Black History Month
Gianna, Kobe Bryant’s second oldest daughter, now 13, was a rising star aiming for the WNBA. Kobe called her Mambacita and coached her team. On Jimmie Kimmel Live in October 2018, Kobe said: “The best...
View ArticleBernie Sanders and the Military Industrial Complex
by Ann Garrison No one on the left was more critical of Bernie Sanders during his 2016 presidential run than late Black Agenda Report Editor Bruce Dixon. However, after Bernie’s speech announcing that...
View ArticlePrisoners call for testing as COVID-19 spreads through Federal Bureau of...
This peaceful façade hides a death camp, the first BOP prison to report a coronavirus death. “A federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, has stopped testing prisoners who are symptomatic for the...
View ArticleRev. Jesse Jackson: Let prisoners go during COVID-19 pandemic
This protest calling for the release of prisoners was held April 10, 2020, outside Cook County Jail, the nation’s largest, where 4,000 prisoners are trying to survive COVID-19, which has already...
View ArticleBlack people are so tired
by Anonymous Black Person We can’t go jogging (#AmaudArbery). We can’t relax in the comfort of our own homes (#BothemJean and #AtatianaJefferson). We can’t ask for help after being in a car crash...
View ArticleHaving ‘The Talk’ with your children in the era of Black Lives Matter
by Diana Hembree My husband Ali always remembers how thrilled he felt when he went on vacation with his family. At age 6, leaning gleefully out the car window as they rolled down the highway, he came...
View ArticleFinally! Baba Jalil will be freed!
Sis-star and Oakland 3rd District Council Candidate Carroll Fife and other Board of SUPER-MOMS speaks at the EVICTION = DEATH gathering at Alameda County Board of Supervisors Administration Building....
View ArticleBlack farmers hail $5 billion in COVID relief to redress generations of racism
Dr. John Boyd’s National Black Farmers Association has been campaigning for decades to end USDA redlining. Here they are in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2009. – Photo: Alex Brandon, Montgomery...
View ArticleRep. Barbara Lee marks 100th anniversary of Tulsa Greenwood Massacre, calling...
by Congresswoman Barbara Lee I want to thank Congressman Richie Torres and the Congressional Black Caucus for organizing this event to mark 100 years since the horrific tragedy of the Tulsa Greenwood...
View ArticleHey, let’s talk about race!
“Critical Race Theory in Education” is a guide for those seeking to learn how CRT can help us understand and change educational inequities. Critical Race Theory and the human genome by Dr. Ahimsa...
View ArticleIn the wake of Jovenel Moise’s assassination: Building solidarity with...
A Haitian protester, wrapped in his country’s flag, holds a copy of the 1987 Constitution that was written when Jean-Bertrand Aristide was president and brought the promise of true democracy to Haiti....
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