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Let’s get New Orleanians back home
Congresswoman Maxine Waters holds hearings in New Orleans on desperate need for affordable housing Not only were 4,500 livable apartments in New Orleans demolished for no reason but to get rid of their...
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Black unemployment sparks chorus of discontent
Tide of Mideast revolt gives rise to homegrown frustration by Chris Levister A jobless Moreno Valley man wipes tear from his eyes as he and more than a dozen others discuss the revolutions in Egypt and...
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Global and local people power unites
by Carol Harvey San Francisco – December 2010 Tunisian civil resistance erupted when a poverty-stricken college grad, Mohamed Bouazizi, unable to find work, harassed by “authorities” while selling...
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Coming home: Revelations from former prisoners
by Sis. Marpessa Kupendua “I want to live every day, because I’m afraid I might lose it all again!” – Former DOC No. A27963 What happens when the gate finally swings open … for you or your loved one? –...
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KPFA: A tale of foxes in the henhouse
Understanding KPFA Issues: Part I by Carol Spooner “(B)y making up stories about our current predicament that absolve those who put us here, we cut off any chance to learn from the crisis. We need to...
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Black Congress members outraged over camp destructions by Haitian police
by Congressman Donald M. Payne of New Jersey and Congresswomen Yvette D. Clarke of New York, Frederica Wilson of Florida and Maxine Waters of California Imagine how these children feel, having survived...
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Break the siege on Gaza NOW!
by Donna Wallach Regina Carey, one of three Bay Area residents chosen for the upcoming voyage to break the siege of Gaza, says, “The real victims are children ... yet we’re sacrificing them” when, for...
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Keep AAMLO and all libraries open, Oakland!
‘If you shut the libraries, you kill our city’ by Wanda Sabir AAMLO A recent evening at the African American Museum and Library in Oakland was special. The line wrapped around the corner of 14th...
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Proposed settlement from BP: $488,540,000
Community activist Art Rocker and legendary comedian and activist Dick Gregory discuss their demands of BP. BP’s Ken Feinberg, who serves as czar for the $21 billion fund allocated to pay claims and...
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Rethinking Malcolm: What was Marable thinking?
by Abdul Alkalimat Malcolm X at Queens Court 1964 - Photo: Herman Hiller The new book by Manning Marable, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” will help us to get a deeper understanding of Malcolm X and...
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Should Africa be an ally of the West or China? The case of Cameroon and Côte...
by Jean-Paul Pougala, translated from French by Therese Boua In Cameroon, women are becoming farmers and growing cotton. Where previously the men preferred the women not to become cotton farmers, many...
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Congo: Elections, democracy and the Diaspora awakening
by Friends of the Congo A Congolese soldier stomps Fabien Mutomb, provincial vice president of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), Tshisekedi’s party, during a peaceful protest in...
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The mass incarceration of the Black community: an interview with Michelle...
by Minister of Information JR Valrey Michelle Alexander speaks to the prisoners at Washington State Reformatory’s University Beyond Bars. Professor Michelle Alexander’s new book “The New Jim Crow” is a...
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Youth of color: Watched and shot
by Mark Lewis Taylor Hoodies like the one Trayvon Martin is wearing here and the one he wore the night George Zimmerman murdered him have become a powerful symbol of the demonization of Black youth....
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Prisoners at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison on hunger strike
by Mary Ratcliff On May 22, brave prisoners at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison began a hunger strike. Their decision to starve themselves in an effort to be heard is the latest in a recent series of...
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March to Save the People’s Post Office: 200 march and occupy San Francisco’s...
by Patricia Jackson Two hundred people rallied to save the Civic Center Post Office on July 27. – Photo: Patricia Jackson The Community-Labor Coalition to Save the People’s Post Office rallied, marched...
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Jonathan Jackson Jr.’s foreword to his Uncle George Jackson’s ‘Soledad...
Commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion by Jonathan Jackson Jr. Jonathan Jackson I was born eight and a half months after my father, Jonathan Jackson, was shot down...
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Let the community rebuild our schools!
We want local workers and local contractors on SF School District construction by James Richards, ABU James Richards of ABU listens to San Francisco police officers who sought to negotiate an end to...
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Victory for Chávez is a victory for Latin America
Long live Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution! by Gloria La Riva A triumphant Hugo Chávez speaks during a press conference with a portrait of independence hero Simón Bolívar in the background. – Photo:...
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After Baltimore, mothers of police murder victims issue a call to reclaim...
Mothers of victims of police murders stand outside of the White House following a refusal by Obama to meet with them in December 2014. – Photo: Code Pink Why I will march for my son, Sean Bell, and all...
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