Oscar Grant, young father and peacemaker, executed by BART police
Demand justice for Oscar Grant Wednesday, Jan. 7, 3-7 p.m., Fruitvale BART Station, Oakland by Davey D Oscar Grant, 22, murdered in cold blood by BART police just two hours into the new year, was the...
View ArticleBlack August
by Mumia Abu-Jamal Written Aug. 4, 1993 George Jackson, born Sept. 23, 1941, was not quite 30 when he was murdered at San Quentin Aug. 21, 1971, yet his writings from prison had built a large and...
View ArticleRethinking 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...
View ArticleThe making of Geronimo ji Jaga
Celebrate Geronimo on Sunday, July 17, 3-6 p.m., at Bobby Hutton (Defremery) Park, 18th and Adeline, West Oakland. All three hours will be broadcast live on KPFA 94.1FM or streaming and archived at...
View ArticleWanda’s Picks for April 2012
by Wanda Sabir Wanda’s niece, Wilda Aiysah Batin, about six years ago Congratulations to my niece, Wilda Batin, for being honored by the City of San Francisco in February for Black History Month as one...
View Article‘Party People’
Review by The People’s Minister of Information JR In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the Black Panther Party and the group of revolutionary Puerto Ricans known as the Young Lords totally transformed the...
View ArticleBobby Seale: Community control of police was on the Berkeley ballot in 1969
An update follows: Berkeley Copwatch blasts change in police policy restricting right to observe by Bobby Seale Bobby Seale I was the founding chairman and national organizer of the Black Panther...
View ArticleHuey P. Newton’s brother Melvin speaks on their Panther histories
BlockReportRadio.com interviews Melvin Newton, about his brother Huey P. Newton and their history in the Black Panther Party in Oakland California. Melvin talks about Huey facing the death penalty...
View ArticleCelebrating Our Black Super-Heroes!
If Black lives truly matter, then Afrikans deserve Reparations! by Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at 6258 KMT (April 2018 JC-PG) Greetings of IMANI (FAITH), Esteemed G-o-ds, Co-conSPIRITors and...
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 ArticleTransitional thinking: The Black Bay Area Quarantine Chronicles #1
Tarika Lewis and her magic violin charmed and stirred the audience at the Bay View’s Black Media Appreciation Night Sept. 12, 2015, at the African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco’s...
View ArticleEddie Dillard and Lynette Gibson McElhaney in conversation
On Oct. 23, 2016, in the historic Bobby Hutton Grove in West Oakland during the 50th anniversary commemoration of the founding of the Black Panther Party, then Oakland City Council President Lynette...
View ArticleDecades of torture, hundreds of men, weeks of starvation – and still we...
Paul Redd (PR) Interview with Paul Redd and Ruben Jitu Williams by Editor Nube Brown This is my interview with two incredible men who represent hundreds of others who have survived the torture of...
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