Hard lessons in the struggle to end prison slavery
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington “Rather than the slaughtering of Black people outright, the prison system carries out genocide through political repression. Mass incarceration works to prevent the...
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Leaders from American racial justice movements connect with Palestinians living under occupation by Kristian Davis Bailey Representatives at the forefront of the movements for Black lives and racial...
View ArticleFrom Selma to San Francisco, BlackLivesMatter from 1963 to 2015
Students of the Revolutionary Youth Media Education (RYME) class at Deecolonize Academy haven been learning, writing and living police terror and resistance as children of Black, Brown and poor...
View ArticleUn-ban the Bay View!
Defend and support our San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper! by Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Maat We, the community of writers, artists, contributors and readers outside and behind the walls,...
View ArticleLet’s re-ignite the movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
by Jack Heyman and Eric Clanton “He ain’t free cuz we ain’t free” – Art: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 1859887, Clements Unit, 9601 Spur 591, Amarillo TX 79107 Could Mumia Abu-Jamal, one of the 20th...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for October 2016
by Wanda Sabir To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1966 Hunters Point Uprising, Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin (in the colorful dress), chair of the African American Studies Department at City College, who was...
View ArticleBold, brave & bullied: Meet the Beaumont Bulls
by Shaun King Something amazingly powerful is happening all over the country with America’s youth. In 34 states, with at least 44 high schools, 21 colleges, and two youth sports leagues, brilliant,...
View ArticlePut your money where your knee is!
“When you’re trying to raise a #woke baby, you dress him as Kaepernick for Halloween,” Hana Pugh, mother of 14-month-old Ceron Pugh III, called CP3, wrote on Instagram. His dad, an Army captain and...
View ArticleSen. Sanders, Big Pharma’s greed is killing 3 million Hep C sufferers,...
by Oakland Teachers for Mumia and Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Sen. Sanders, you have spoken out against the depredations of Big Pharma, refused to take donations from any of them,...
View ArticlePresident Obama: Support Dr. Mutulu Shakur’s clemency petition
Dear President Obama: Dr. Mutulu Shakur We are writing to urge you to commute the sentence of Dr. Mutulu Shakur. He has served more than 30 years in prison for his conviction arising from his...
View ArticleWomen march against Washington
by Mumia Abu-Jamal At the Women’s March in San Francisco, 100,000 to 150,000 people braved rainy, stormy weather to demand equal rights. – Photo: Jim Wilson, New York Times They covered the streets...
View ArticleMarcus Garvey Park in Oakland reclaimed for community housing and services by...
Encampment offers safe, dignified space City of Oakland unable to provide by #FeedthePeople and #Asians4BlackLives Oakland – At 4 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, a network of Oakland...
View Article‘Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and...
by Orissa Arend “Race is the Rubicon we have never crossed in this country.” That’s David Billings’ thesis in his provocative new historical memoir, “Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in...
View ArticleCuster died for their sins
by Kevin Cooper Gen. George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) paid the ultimate price for the sins of certain white people of his time who committed damn near every type of crime against humanity upon the...
View ArticleNeutralize their activities: The footprints of COINTELPRO from the Black...
by Uhuru Baraka Rowe Uhuru Rowe has subscribed to the Bay View for years; he was at Buckingham Correctional Center (BKCC) in Dillwyn, Virginia, when this picture was taken. Are you a Bay View...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks June 2017
by Wanda Sabir Happy Father’s Day! Ramadan Mubarak to those fasting during this blessed month. Congratulations to all the graduates and their happy families, special congratulations to my eldest niece,...
View ArticleBlack youth who led the Ferguson Rebellion and inspired the world are dying –...
by Kerry ‘Shakaboona’ Marshall In this iconic photo, a hero of the Ferguson rebellion, Edward “Skeeda” Crawford, throws a tear gas canister back at police and away from the women and children they had...
View Article‘We Charge Genocide’
by Mike Kuhlenbeck “The responsibility of being the first in history to charge the government of the United States of America with the crime of genocide is not one the petitioners take lightly,”...
View ArticleOuting the Bay Area campaign contributors to KKK fascist David Duke
by Lynda Carson Roger Grigsby of Santa Cruz, owner and founding chef of O’mei Restaurant, gave $500 to David Duke’s U.S. Senate campaign in 2016. This photo, when posted with the original story on...
View ArticleKwame ‘Beans’ Shakur: Seizing the time
by Kwame ‘Beans’ Shakur, co-founder and chairman of the New Afrikan Liberation Collective We, New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist cadres and all righteous, conscious citizens of the Republic of New...
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