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West Oakland youth are going to South Africa
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Oakland’s Oprah: Chamia LaRae, host of The Just Chamia Show, speaks
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Review of the new blockbuster ‘Hidden Figures’
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22nd annual Maafa Commemoration
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Black children have the right to be children
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by Wanda Sabir “How’m I doing,” asks the captain of the spaceship, Wanda’s grandson, on Kuumba (Creativity) or New Year’s Eve at Chabot Planetarium for the Countdown. She explains: “Chabot hosts a...
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Wanda’s Picks April 2021
Alabama artist Michelle Browder, pictured, is in town working at San Francisco’s Box Shop in Hunters Point to build a 15-foot public monument, “Mothers of Gynecology.” The sculpture will honor...
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Queen Iminah: from Oakland to Harvard to Ghana and back
Caption: Queen Iminah’s coronation as the Yeyemeto Awo of Oworonsoki Kingdom, Lagos Nigeria March 2021 By JR Valrey, the People’s Minister of Information and editor in chief of the SF Bay View When...
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West Oakland youth are going to South Africa
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Over the years, Kharyishi Wigington has been a tireless advocate for empowering West Oakland youth at McClymonds High School. She is at it again, this time...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What I meant when I said that #BlackLivesMatter
by Alicia Garza July 13 marks two years since Patrisse, Opal and I created #BlackLivesMatter, which began as an online platform designed to connect people online in order to take action together...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oakland’s Oprah: Chamia LaRae, host of The Just Chamia Show, speaks
by The People’s Minister of Information JR One thing that I love about the internet is that it gives everybody who has access to it a voice, allowing the public to break the cycle of being mass...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review of the new blockbuster ‘Hidden Figures’
by Wanda Sabir Scientists Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, profiled in “Hidden Figures” (2016), exemplify what writer Margot Lee Shetterly calls “everyday courage,” a kind of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
22nd annual Maafa Commemoration
by Wanda Sabir What I loved this year was all the celebratory dancing from just before our ancestors crossed into the unknown territory to landing on these shores and celebrating life and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Black children have the right to be children
by Jacqueline Bediako Historically, Black children have been exposed to a racist system, which not only exposes them to unspeakable violence, but also criminalization. In 1955, Emmett Till – who was 14...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wanda’s Picks for January 2019
by Wanda Sabir “How’m I doing,” asks the captain of the spaceship, Wanda’s grandson, on Kuumba (Creativity) or New Year’s Eve at Chabot Planetarium for the Countdown. She explains: “Chabot hosts a...
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Wanda’s Picks April 2021
Alabama artist Michelle Browder, pictured, is in town working at San Francisco’s Box Shop in Hunters Point to build a 15-foot public monument, “Mothers of Gynecology.” The sculpture will honor...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Queen Iminah: from Oakland to Harvard to Ghana and back
Caption: Queen Iminah’s coronation as the Yeyemeto Awo of Oworonsoki Kingdom, Lagos Nigeria March 2021 By JR Valrey, the People’s Minister of Information and editor in chief of the SF Bay View When...
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