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‘Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and...
by Orissa Arend “Race is the Rubicon we have never crossed in this country.” That’s David Billings’ thesis in his provocative new historical memoir, “Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in...
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Colorism in the Black community is the subject of SF Black Film Fest-selected...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Filmmaker Palesa Lebona “Cream” is a political and socially conscious short that is set in Oakland in 1968, at the time of the assassination of Dr. Martin...
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Neutralize their activities: The footprints of COINTELPRO from the Black...
by Uhuru Baraka Rowe Uhuru Rowe has subscribed to the Bay View for years; he was at Buckingham Correctional Center (BKCC) in Dillwyn, Virginia, when this picture was taken. Are you a Bay View...
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A warrior bends her knee in prayer
by Wanda Sabir I’d been watching a sliver of new moon on the western horizon Monday evening It was dark on the beach. I was looking for a stick, yet kept picking up seaweed tublars instead, until I...
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Watani Stiner: Tending to historical wounds
by Watani Stiner My life began in the Jim Crow South, in Houston, Texas. I remember the segregated world I was born into … the separate water fountains, the back of the bus, the going around to the...
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Jalil A. Muntaqim: The making of a movement
by Jalil A. Muntaqim I was captured on Aug. 28, 1971, in San Francisco after a car chase and gun battle with San Francisco police. It was alleged that myself and co-defendant Albert Nuh Washington were...
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Another 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...
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‘Black Panther’: Reflection on cultural solidarity and historic debt
by Wanda Sabir N’Jadaka (Michael B. Jordan) and T’Challa (Chadwick Bozeman) resort to mortal combat as so often happens on the streets in the U.S. – Photo: Marvel Studios King T’Challa, the revered...
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Paul Robeson remembered with love on his 120th birthday
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali “Robeson may have joined the ancestors, but his example, his intelligence, his political acumen remains as a lodestar we would all do well to study – and...
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The Legacy Museum: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration demands we face the truth
by Wanda Sabir Enslaved Africans “live” in Kwame Akoto-Bamfo’s Nkyinkyim Installation at the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, officially opened in April. – Photo: Wanda Sabir Slavery has indeed...
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Bay View Voters Guide: VOTE 100%! Make BVHP known for ballots, not bullets
by Dr. Willie and Mary Ratcliff Why do Black folks catch more hell in San Francisco than just about anywhere else? Why has a larger portion of the Black population been pushed out of San Francisco than...
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How the 1968 uprisings gave us the Civil Rights Act of 1968
by Eugene Puryear The 50th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is, rightfully, the cause of great reflection as well as numerous calls to action. So much of what Dr....
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‘We knew where the power was’: Conversations with organizers of the North...
by Jonathan Michels As the snowbirds arrived in Florida along with the mild January breezes, a small uprising of laborers who work under lock and key stopped production and made demands. This...
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Political prisoner of war Robert Seth Hayes paroled after 45 years
Amsterdam News, Aug. 9, 2018 – Having been incarcerated since 1973, original Black Panther activist Robert Seth Hayes, 69, was released on parole last Tuesday. He joins a short list of revolutionaries...
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Don’t miss ‘Picture Bayview Hunters Point’ at Bayview Opera House...
“Picture Bayview Hunters Point” tells the story of the people who came from the South to replant their family trees in the warmest and sunniest side of San Francisco. The performers and audience move...
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1968: The strike at San Francisco State
Interview by Jason Ferreira In 1968, the 2-year-old Black Panther Party had raised Black consciousness and commitment to revolutionary change to a new high, and Blacks led the broad coalition behind...
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‘He thinks he’s Black’
by Ruben Beltran Inspired by Brother Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun’s article in the December 2018 Bay View, Ruben created this piece in support of the “I am 1619” movement. He also sends his love and support...
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The NBA’s Black Power
That’s Breonna Taylor on Jamal Murray’s sneakers. by Ann Garrison On Aug. 26, the third day of the Republican Convention and two days after a Kenosha, Wisconsin, cop fired seven bullets into the back...
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An epiphany – the largest slave insurrection in US history
This is Wanda in Congo Square at the conclusion of the Slave Rebellion Reenactment (SRR) Nov. 8-9, 2019. “We marched into Congo Square after walking 22 or so miles from the German Coast over two...
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Unsung history of Black leadership in the Civil War era
Black soldiers line up at Fort Lincoln, Washington, D.C., in 1885. The Emancipation Proclamation issued in January 1863 unleashed 3.5 million women and men to mount a general strike against plantation...
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