San Francisco Bay View
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.
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 ...
Death Row prisoner Steve Champion, Tookie’s friend, on hunger …
WEBOct 8, 2012 · Word has just reached us that Steve Champion, a prisoner on San Quentin’s death row well known as an inspirational advocate for justice and as one of the trio with Stanley Tookie Williams and Anthony Ross, began a hunger strike last Thursday, Oct. 4. His demands – still unmet – are listed in “The struggle never stops,” published in the July Bay View and reprinted here, and he asks ...
James Beasley: Ex-drug kingpin determined to gain redemption
WEBMay 7, 2012 · San Francisco – The name Beasley has rung true in the streets of Bayview Hunters Point since before the Double Rock housing projects were built in the 1950s. Of all of the Beasleys, there was none who controlled the streets like James Beasley Jr. As told to his daughter Monet, James tells his amazing story in the soon-to-be-released autobiography and documentary entitled “Deep Rooted ...
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 …
California prisoners endangered by forced integration of snitch yards
WEBFebruary 1, 2019. Families United to Stop Merged Yards rally Dec. 14, 2018, at CDCr Headquarters, demanding that CDCr stop the merging of sensitive needs yards and general population in California state prisons. Sacramento, Calif. – On Dec. 14, 2018, families of prisoners and supporters traveled to Sacramento to rally in front of the ...
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.
In loving memory of Mollie Mae Claretta Hooey Bagwell, musician …
WEBApr 29, 2017 · Mollie Mae Claretta Hooey Bagwell was born to the union of John Neely Hooey, a minister, and Blanche Hooey, a missionary, on Aug. 12, 1916. Very early in life she was trained as a pianist and played for her father’s church. Mollie became a licensed beautician, practicing her craft for many years. She studied organ and became an organist. In spite of great pain, she loved life and lived over ...
WeFeastSF: Bayview native Chef E. cooks up fresh Creole and …
WEBApr 29, 2021 · Erin is currently a counselor for formerly homeless people, but she decided during the pandemic to use her love of food to follow her dreams – and now she is living her dream, spreading her love of food with her upscale Creole and Southern cuisines at WeFeastSF Inc., an online food delivery and curbside pick-up company.
The Black Guerrilla Family is not a prison gang but an educational ...
WEBSep 1, 2020 · The Black Guerilla Family was organized as an educational organization by its founder, George Jackson, a former Black Panther. Mr. Jackson was a brilliant educator and writer who encouraged Black men and women to take pride in themselves as African Americans and to fight oppression on all fronts. He was a mentor to many.
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