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Picking up the pieces: Kenneth Harding’s mother calls on community to march...
Surround Candlestick Stadium during NFC championship game; gather at Third & Palou at noon Sunday, Jan. 22, to march to Candlestick by Denika Chatman Hi, my name is Denika Chatman and I am the...
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Etta James: Two tributes
A political obituary of Etta James by Kenyon Farrow Etta James, 1960 It’s a damn shame that many people were introduced to Etta James in the years before her death last week through Beyonce’s portrayal...
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Who are you?
by Sanyika Shakur, s/n Kody Scott Robert Williams, who first came to prominence as president of the Monroe, N.C., NAACP, later wrote “Negroes with Guns” and advocated Black self-defense. Friends of...
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Monster Kody: an interview wit’ author Sanyika Shakur
by Minister of Information JR Sanyika wrote this note on the back of the photo: “I was considerably younger here, but I doubt if I’ve changed much since. Being preserved here in this can.” The first...
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If they say it and I don’t believe it, is it true? What is sanity anyway, but...
‘Reducing Mental Health Disparities in Black Californians Using Community-defined Practices: We Ain’t Crazy’ Review by Wanda Sabir Dr. V. Diane Woods I had the opportunity to speak at length Aug. 3 on...
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Wanda’s Picks for December 2012
by Wanda Sabir It was a tribute to Black media and to the power of love and family when this mother-daughter team of Black media stars, Wanda and TaSin Sabir, told the crowd as well as each other what...
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Another side of King: Black economic power
by Salim K.T. Adofo The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a front line freedom fighter in the fight to uplift the Black community, is often quoted, referenced and honored, but was he ever understood?...
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Wanda’s Picks for May 2013
by Wanda Sabir Wilfred Batin, Wanda’s nephew, at the Honor Roll Tribute in February at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco – Photo: Wanda Sabir We remember Richie Havens, folk singer and activist who made...
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Scottsboro Boys pardoned: What other infamous civil rights cases are in need...
by David A. Love More than 80 years after their wrongful convictions, the legendary Scottsboro Boys finally received a posthumous pardon from the Alabama legislature. In 1931, the nine Black teens were...
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Jasiri X on his new album ‘Ascension’ and other assorted topics
by the People’s Minister of Information JR Jasiri X is a political MC from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who has been making his music known all over the country independently for some time now. This...
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State 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...
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Mandela, America, Israel and systems of oppression
by Askia Muhammad Washington (FinalCall.com) – In the 23 years since Nelson Mandela walked from his notorious Robben Island prison cell, leaving behind the rotting corpse of South Africa’s system of...
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Winnie and Nelson: Forever linked to freedom struggle
by Charlene Muhammad Nelson and Winnie Mandela on their wedding day in Pondoland, South Africa, June 1958 – four years later he was first imprisoned. (FinalCall.com) – As Black female leaders celebrate...
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‘The Black Arts Movement and Its Influences’ conference hits UC Merced Feb....
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey On Feb. 28-March 2 at UC Merced, “The Black Arts Movement and Its Influences” conference will be going down with a host of legendary Black artists who...
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Social consciousness, prison struggle and perseverance: a personal account
by Larry ‘Key’ Mitchell It’s been quite some time since I submitted an article to the Bay View paper, and I don’t usually write about personal struggles and experiences in political or socio-economic...
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Looking at the life of freedom fighter Obi Egbuna Sr.
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Studying the revolutionary politics of the African world has been hard for me, because of the many revolutionary cliques that are at odds with each other in...
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‘The Trials of Muhammad Ali’
Review by Wanda Sabir Bill Siegel’s “Trials of Muhammad Ali” shows an evolution of consciousness rarely if ever seen when looking at an iconic figure, in this case the greatest boxer of the 20th...
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Wanda’s Picks for August 2014
by Wanda Sabir Congratulations to Gerald Lenoir for carrying the torch and blazing the way for so many social justice issues from HIV/AIDS awareness in the Black community to his recent work in just...
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UNIA at 100
by Wanda Sabir I spent a week in Harlem for the Centennial Celebration of the Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association-African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), an organization...
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‘Why the U.S. Government Assassinated Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.’
Review by Roger Hollander of the book by Roland Sheppard, just published by ReMarx Publishing The question of who ordered the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. is a vital one, and...
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