Sustenance
Good ingredients for your 2009 New Year’s resolutions by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, M.D. At the Mo’ Better Food Market Shopper in West Oakland, shopper Amaranth Modacure greets founder David Roach. This...
View ArticleNew Orleanians gear up for long overdue rebuilding
Public planning of new New Deal Metro NOLA Public Works Program proposals San Jose State University graduate student Kwame Thomas, left, leads a rally in San Jose for passage of the Gulf Coast Civic...
View ArticleUnfair trade! Sen. Leno aims to give our clean parkland to Lennar, toxic land...
by Alicia Schwartz By traveling to Sacramento with Caravan for Justice III on May 26, these precious children are learning to stand up for their community. Will you stand up for them and express your...
View ArticleFriday, Aug. 7, call Jerry Brown and tell him to drop the appeal!
by Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) Not only is overcrowding in California prisons so severe as to amount to cruel and unusual punishment, the judges ruled on Aug. 4, but these...
View ArticleStop the land grab: Leno and Lennar form toxic alliance with SB 792
by Alicia Garza, POWER Born and raised in Bayview Hunters Point, Betty Higgins walks Candlestick State Park every day with friends. SB792 is poorly planned and unnecessary, harmful to the community’s...
View ArticleHaiti on our minds
by Mumia Abu-Jamal Early Monday morning, nearly three weeks after the earthquake that killed at least 200,000, the Aristide Foundation and the Bureau of International Lawyers held a mass funeral...
View ArticleWhere has the love of San Francisco gone?
by Nyese Joshua, candidate for San Francisco District 10 Supervisor Nyese Joshua, your No. 1 Supervisor Candidate for District 10 Thank you to everyone who came out Saturday and joined the kickoff of...
View ArticleClarion call: VIOLENCE is a public health emergency!
by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, M.D. This wisdom, “Armed conflict is health risk,” appearing on a billboard in Juba, South Sudan, needs to be taken to heart in every innercity in America – by the police as...
View ArticleVenezuela and climate change: Change the system, not the climate
by the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United States Robert Coates delivers home heating oil in the Bronx borough of New York City. Approximately 15 percent of Coates’ customers...
View ArticleMLK Injustice Index 2011: Racism, materialism and militarism in the U.S.
by Bill Quigley Dr. King shocked the nation’s out of its complacency with his “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” speech condemning racism, materialism and militarism. It was delivered at...
View ArticleStic.man’s ‘The Workout’: Making health political – and fun
by Minister of Information JR The legendary rap group dead prez rocked the Ashkenaz on April 18. Stic of dead prez released his new album, “The Workout,” a few days earlier. – Photo:...
View ArticleBuy Black Wednesdays: Money talk
by Paradise Free Jahlove Berkeley, Calif.: The most liberal city in America and the world, some say. And yet Berkeley High School, with over 3,500 students and 250 teachers, has only eight Black...
View ArticleOklahoma police chief apologizes for 1921 attack on Black Wall Street
by Rev. Andrew Bozeman All too often, apologies are just empty words that aren’t worth the air they ride on. But there are times when an apology actually has meaning and impact. That was the case on...
View ArticleBMAGIC to distribute backpacks, uniforms to Bayview kids
by Tamara Barak Aparton San Francisco – In an effort to ensure every student starts school with the tools to succeed, the San Francisco Public Defender’s BMAGIC program will provide backpacks stuffed...
View ArticleThe African Diaspora Bazaar and Crafts Fair coming to Humanist Hall Nov. 29
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey Organizers of last year’s African Diaspora Bazaar and Crafts Fair Creating a healthy economy in the Black community that serves the masses is one of...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: African Union commission says oil resources must benefit the...
by Ann Garrison KPFA Weekend News broadcast Aug. 22, 2015 http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SOUTH-SUDAN-HORACE-CAMPBELL-08-29-20141.mp3 Professor Horace Campbell says the recommendations...
View Article2,000+ Bayview residents celebrate learning at BMAGIC’s backpack giveaway
by Tamara Aparton Public Defender Jeff Adachi, founder of BMAGIC and a much loved figure in Bayview Hunters Point, talks with a family – the children sporting their brand new backpacks – in beautiful...
View ArticleJoe Debro on racism in construction, Part 13
A study of the manpower implications of small business financing by Joseph Debro A 1968 book-length report, titled “A Study of the Manpower Implications of Small Business Financing: A Survey of 149...
View ArticleCelebrate Cultural Landmark designation of the Arthur Coleman Medical Center
The Bayview Clinic staff are here to care for your needs. You’re invited! Please join us at the Coleman Medical Center on Tuesday, March 26, for an open house from 4:30-6:30 p.m., 6301 Third St. (at...
View ArticleReviving the family dinner
Here’s how to put the ‘family’ back in family dinners by Diana Hembree Having trouble getting the family together for dinner? You’re not alone. Research shows that family dinners have declined by 30...
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