Kern Valley State Prison race-based lockdowns targeting Blacks
Nov 28, 2024 · by California Prison Focus et al. In a shocking revelation, community leaders, advocates and concerned family members have come forward to expose a racially discriminatory lockdown at Kern Valley State Prison’s B Yard.
San Francisco Bay View
Oct 21, 2024 · Exciting, 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 …
43 years later, Mumia is still a political prisoner
Dec 24, 2024 · It is important for people to acknowledge the imprisonment and prolific work of political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, just like others in his position, like Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Kamau Sadiki, Leonard Peltier, Aaron Patterson, and political exiles Assata Shakur and Pete O’Neal, because it reinforces that it is a war going on domestically in the U.S., where the poor and disenfranchised classes ...
Yes on Prop G: Make housing accessible to those who need it most
Oct 30, 2024 · The measure would secure $8.25 million annually to subsidize rents in affordable units available through DAHLIA for extremely low-income seniors, families and people with disabilities.
It’s time for justice: Why Leonard Peltier must be granted clemency
Dec 11, 2024 · On June 26, 1975, a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota left two FBI agents, Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, dead. The incident occurred against the backdrop of extreme violence and federal overreach on the reservation.
Exposed: The human radiation experiments at Hunters Point
Dec 1, 2024 · After a team from the lab detonated bombs laced with isotopic tracer elements underwater in summer 1961 around San Clemente Island, near San Diego, state game wardens working with researchers caught a radioactive fish, indicating unintended and potentially widespread ecological consequences.They brushed aside the discovery by noting that fish are typically gutted and presumably made safe ...
Cover Up at Red Onion, Prisoners are Setting Themselves on Fire
Nov 20, 2024 · According to the American Burn Association, Virginia has just three facilities capable of dealing with severe burns. Two are in Richmond: the Evans-Haynes Burn Center at VCU Health, a state institution, and the Wound Healing Center at …
Our Story - San Francisco Bay View
The San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, founded in 1976, is a communications network for the Black community worldwide, with its website, www.sfbayview.com, the most visited Black newspaper on the web, second only to the Final Call, and one of a kind print edition that’s distributed throughout the Bay Area and mailed to subscribers, including […]
Single Mother Christiana Porter Beat by SFPD Last July
Jan 3, 2025 · JR Valrey: How have your children been affected by this ordeal?. Christiana Porter: I feel like it was initially a state of shock for everybody.It was almost as if my children were “numb” at first. Like it took a moment for it to all process for them. Then, the relief came that their mother is still alive, because we have all seen countless times, many of …
James Beasley: Ex-drug kingpin determined to gain redemption
May 7, 2012 · by Dennis Haywood. 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 ...