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Win transit justice: Lateefah for BART!
by Lateefah Simon for BART Board District 7 Campaign Over 200 community members, activists, union members, transportation experts, family and friends flocked to Oakland’s New Parish for non-profit...
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In celebration of the charismatic life of Sister Espanola Jackson, a born...
A memorial service will be held for Dr. Espanola Jackson on Thursday, Feb. 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Grace Tabernacle Community Church, 1121 Oakdale Ave., and a homegoing service on Friday, Feb. 5, 12...
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Bay View founding publisher: I was inspired by Malcolm, Martin, Elijah and...
Interview of Muhammad al-Kareem by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey Muhammad al-Kareem founded the New Bayview in September 1976. This photo was taken about that time. Muhammad al-Kareem...
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Fake housing crisis: From Bayview to Baltimore, public housing kept empty...
by Lisa ‘Tiny’ Gray-Garcia Building after building, block after block from the Bayview to Baltimore and from Sunnydale to East Oakland, the last vestige of so-called public – that is, government owned...
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Seriously? Evicting a 99-year-old? Rally at Tuesday hearing
This is how bad things are getting: Iris Canada could lose her home of more than 60 years, despite a lifetime lease CALL TO ACTION: Rally for Iris Canada, a 99-year-old African American woman in the...
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3 days away: Eviction fighter Iris Canada marches toward her 100th birthday
by Tony Robles Iris Canada turns 100 in three days. Iris Canada, eviction fighter who has lived in San Francisco’s Black community on Page Street since the ‘40s. Iris, with history in her skin and...
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Preston Bradford: Rest up, King
by Queen Vanessa “Everyone gon’ respect the shooter, but the one in front of the gun lives forever.” – Kendrick Lamar, “Money Trees” Preston Bradford Preston Bradford, like many other young African...
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Gloria Berry is the kind of Supervisor every SF district needs
Make Gloria your No. 1 choice for District 10 Supervisor by Peter Shaw I met Gloria Berry a month ago as she was walking door to door campaigning in the Dogpatch for San Francisco Supervisor District...
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Rev. Amos Brown calls on City and financial community to support iconic...
by Rev. Dr. Amos C. Brown It was a sad and rainy day in the Fillmore when the noble Bryant Mortuary, where the community has bid farewell to their loved ones for nearly six decades, was forced by a...
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Fillmore Midtown residents: Righting the wrongs of racist urban renewal
Fifty years ago, Fillmore residents protested relentlessly, stopping Redevelopment bulldozers with their bodies, but Justin Herman was just as relentless, bulldozing 2,500 Victorian homes under the...
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Master Photographer David Johnson returns to his roots
“Girls Playing Hopscotch in Bayview Hunters Point” – Photo: David Johnson by Dr. Frances Yvonne Hicks and Kenneth Reddick A 1945 graduate of Stanton High School, professional photographer David...
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St. John Coltrane Church celebrates 50th anniversary in San Francisco
St. John Coltrane San Francisco – You are invited to join us in celebrating our 50th anniversary at Grace Cathedral on July 20th with a free concert for the public. Since its inception in 1969, the...
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Community-created ‘Spirit of Fillmore’ mural unveiled by SF Mayor London Breed
SF Mayor London Breed, center, poses in front of her portrait in the “Spirit of Fillmore” mural while holding a framed mural-planning sketch by currently unhoused artist Clifton Hyson (left of Breed)....
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Hit me, Bruh! Thoughts on ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’
by Tony Robles, The People’s Poet Hit me with something real. Hit me with what I am. Hit me with my pent-up rage. Hit me with everything that’s been taken from you, me, us – our city. Last Black man,...
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Jonestown: Reflection, healing, history
Friends of the Fillmore Mini Park meet in October 2018 to plan for the first Jonestown commemoration. They are having a great time revitalizing the Fillmore even for an occasion as solemn as this one....
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Mayor Breed announces neighborhood mini-grants to support small businesses in...
Mayor Breed updates San Franciscans on the need to further flatten the curve before reopening. On April 12, The Atlantic praised her, saying in a sub-headline, “Mayor London Breed’s early and...
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Curtis Family C-notes hits big stage!
Love for the people, discipline and unparalleled musical gifts define the Curtis Family C-notes and got them to the main stage of America’s Got Talent! Along with their commitment to music, we in the...
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