Pelican Bay Hunger Strike: Four years and still fighting
by Claude Marks and Isaac Ontiveros Four years ago prisoners in California – led by those in the control units of Pelican Bay – organized a hunger strike to demand an end to the torturous conditions of...
View Article50th anniversary of the Watts Rebellion, a turning point in the struggle for...
by Abayomi Azikiwe Police, bolstered by the California National Guard, showed the Watts rebels no mercy, but the people were determined to be heard. It took 14,000 National Guard troops, 3,000 arrests,...
View ArticleA-APRP comrade speaks on the work of the late Dedon Kamathi
by The People’s Minister of Information JR I have known Dedon Kamathi of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party for almost 20 years. I met him and his comrade Munyiga Lumumba while I was a...
View ArticleRemembering Jonestown: ‘White Nights, Black Paradise’ author Sikivu...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR The Jonestown Massacre, where hundreds of Black people were murdered in the jungles of Guyana, is a chapter in Black Bay Area history that is not talked about...
View ArticleBay 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...
View Article‘I just wanted to be free’: The radical reverberations of Muhammad Ali
by Dave Zirin The reverberations. Not the rumbles, the reverberations. The death of Muhammad Ali will undoubtedly move people’s minds to his epic boxing matches against Joe Frazier and George Foreman,...
View ArticleBlack Power, Black Lives and Pan-Africanism Conference underway now in...
Conference is Thursday-Sunday, June 16-19, at the Chokwe Lumumba Center for Economic Democracy and Development, 939 West Capitol St., Jackson, MS 39203 by Kali Akuno A brief history of Black power...
View ArticleReparationists take the power, and da funk, to Parliament in London!
by Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at stands with thousands of other reparationists on Emancipation Day, 1 Mosiah (August) 2016, for three minutes of silence...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for November 2016
by Wanda Sabir The enormous crowd at the BPP 50th Gala on Oct. 22 testifies to a growing sense of liberation in the Black community, where, from the grassroots to the most influential celebrities and...
View ArticlePlanet Asia
by Chinyere Egu Planet Asia Underground rappers don’t get recognized like those who are singing hip hop music today. However, in a case where rap is underground, the genre is brought out in a gradual...
View ArticleAnother look at Martin Luther King Jr.
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali “I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic,” Martin Luther King Jr. said in a letter to his future wife...
View ArticleRegarding the 2005 photo of Farrakhan and Obama: A gentle scolding of a dear...
by Oscar H. Blayton Fox News interviews Askia Muhammad, news director of Pacifica station WPFW in Washington, D.C., about the recently released photo he took in 2005 showing then-Sen. Obama with...
View ArticleFormer Black Panther Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald will remain behind bars
by Ann Garrison News of the shootout that led to Chip Fitzgerald’s imprisonment and of his subsequent arrest and trial made headlines in the mainstream media, and the Black Panther newspaper put him on...
View ArticleRetaliation against Ohio prison strikers: Poisoning food, cutting off contact...
by David Easley David Easley Revolutionary greetings live from maximum security Toledo, Ohio. I answered the call Aug. 21, 2018, and put together a hunger strike team. My name was released on the local...
View ArticleMos def sumthin-sumthin to vote for!
Afrikans deserve Reparations! Cause Black lives truly matter! Asé. by Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at 6258 AAC (November 2018 JC-PG) Greetings of IMANI (FAITH) Esteemed G-o-d(desse)s,...
View ArticleA celebration of the Justice for Oscar Grant protesters
by Dave Id Oakland’s outrage at the murder of Oscar Grant by BART cop Johannes Mehserle launched a new strategy for protesting police murders: incessant marches and rallies and grassroots organizing...
View ArticleUncle Damien in action!
Damien Posey, respectfully known as “Uncle Damien,” is the founder of Us4Us Bay Area. He says that the best name he could be called is Uncle Damien because it reflects the man he is and reflects his...
View ArticleAsking for my critique like I’m somebody
Prisoners often use art to heal and endure and make sense of their life behind bars. Many use the time to educate themselves embarking on a journey of self-discovery. Malcolm X, human rights activist...
View ArticleGeorge Jackson, 50 years later
This is the front page of The Black Panther newspaper on Aug. 28, 1971, the first issue of the weekly paper published after George Jackson had been murdered at San Quentin a week earlier. George was...
View ArticleWanda’s picks for January 2022: The body has seasons
The altar for Wilma Chan is at the intersection of Shoreline Drive and Grand Avenue. Drivers, please be careful and look out for your neighbors out on these streets. – Photo: Wanda Sabir by Wanda...
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