SFPD as occupier, corporate media as its accomplice
by Michael Calderón-Zaks Debray Carpenter, 22, better known as Fly Benzo, called a press conference in front of City Hall Thursday on his release from jail. He’d been arrested after grilling Chief Greg...
View ArticleThe 2020 vision for Buy Black Wednesdays
by Paradise Free Jahlove The year is 2020. Or maybe it’s not the year 2020 so much as it is a perfectly clear 20/20 vision of how our community will be in the not too distant future. Whatever the year...
View ArticleRock the vote! Rock the boat!
by Paradise Free Jahlove Do you ever get the feeling that most of today’s Democrats and Republicans have become Republicrats for the 1 percent who play good cop/bad cop to give the 99 percent the...
View ArticleBlack Businesses win a chance to work on the $68 billion California High...
Small businesses are slated to receive $6 billion by Meaghan M. Mitchell San Francisco – Associated Professionals and Contractors of California (APAC) is celebrating the historic inclusion of small,...
View ArticleMartin, money and movies: ‘Django’ and ‘Lincoln’ remind us reparations should...
by Jacquie Taliaferro San Francisco – On the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it comes to mind that from day one our society and culture have been heavily influenced by film. The recent...
View ArticleBuy Black Wednesdays: Black history is universal
by Paradise Free Jahlove If I had children of my own, other than the children of the world, I would teach them three things: to learn to read, write and recite poetry, because reading, writing and...
View ArticleSF School District blocks Blacks from rebuilding school
School District refuses to require community hiring and contracting on Bayview’s Willie Brown Middle School Urgent! SFUSD is making a shocking move: They plan to ask the School Board at the meeting...
View ArticleBlaQuarterbacK
by Paradise Free Jahlove Hut. Hut. Rumor has it that Beyonce put on such an electrifying performance she used up all the power and blew out the lights at this year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans. And...
View ArticleSBA deputy said to go ‘beyond the call of duty’ for Black businesses
by Hazel Trice Edney TriceEdneyWire.com – It is a story that has unfolded all too often. The owner of a small business finds it simply impossible to pull through the torturous economy. The doors shut...
View ArticlePamoja tutashinda: Together we will win!
by Paradise Free Jahlove I have a friend I haven’t seen for many years. His name is He Who Walks the Earth. I don’t even know if he is still walking the earth anymore. And for many years his name was...
View ArticleState and federal prisons persecute Nation of Gods and Earth (Five Percenters)
by Immortality Exegetical 120 Allah (Randal Best) I write to commend you for a job well done in covering and telling the horrors and realities that we behind enemy lines are subjected to. I understand...
View ArticleThird Street Stroll …
by Rochelle Metcalfe Marvin Robinson, co-owner of the Dollar Store and More, 4900 Third St. at Palou, BVHP’s main intersection, where Black San Francisco comes together, welcomes you to his...
View ArticleImmigration policy is good policy? If so, for whom?
by Wanda Sabir On Monday, Nov. 25, President Barack Obama visited the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center in San Francisco to talk about his Common Sense Immigration Bill slowly making its way...
View ArticleJoe Debro on racism in construction, Part 3
by Joseph Debro A 1968 book-length report, titled “A Study of the Manpower Implications of Small Business Financing: A Survey of 149 Minority and 202 Anglo-Owned Small Businesses in Oakland,...
View ArticleSurvivors of Black Wall Street race riot still haven’t received any reparations
by Yvette Carnell, BreakingBrown The people of Black Wall Street, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, look around at the devastation of the entire 1 square mile neighborhood after the smoke cleared. Many...
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 ArticlePut those police cameras on the bankers
by Jesse Jackson A week ago Sunday, five St. Louis Rams professional football players entered a game with their hands up, protesting the killing of Michael Brown. They stand in the lineage of John...
View ArticleWe need to use our Black economic power
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu How can a group have over 3 million people with college degrees yet be so underdeveloped economically? How can a people have over 10,000 elected officials yet...
View ArticleToday the Fillmore went dark!
Open letter to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors by Fred Jordan, San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce One year ago, the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce...
View ArticleBlack men disrespected in Mayor Ed Lee’s State of the City address
by Allen Jones In response to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s Jan. 15, 2015, State of the City address, I pondered two sayings. One is the universal mother’s favorite: “If you can’t say anything nice,...
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