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Senator Cory Booker and Senator Kamala Harris

Harris and Booker Presidential Races Stir Pride, Excitement and High Hopes

February 19, 2019 Barrington M. Salmon 0

HOUSTON FORWARD TIMES — Both candidates have been watched by political observers for years. […read more]

Diana Becton Becomes First Woman and Person of Color District Attorney of Contra Costa County

February 14, 2019 Dr. Rev. Alvin Bernstine 0

OAKLAND POST — It took 167 years and the forward-thinking citizens of Contra Costa County to seize the moment. […read more]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Photo by: Atlanta Tribune)

Martin Luther King Jr., Union Man

January 23, 2019 Editorial 0

ATLANTA TRIBUNE — In 1961, King spoke before the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest and most powerful labor organization. […read more]

U.S. Senator Harris re-introduced the Ensuring Diversity Leadership Act.

Promote Diversity and Inclusion at Fed Reserve

January 18, 2019 HVPress 0

HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — Senator Kamala D. Harris re-introduced the Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act […read more]

Children in the Living Jazz Children’s Project live the music they love.

Living Jazz presents its 17th annual Martin Luther King tribute in support of free music education for Oakland Title One elementary schools

January 13, 2019 ellen 0

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Over the past 14 years, Living Jazz has provided FREE music education to Oakland public elementary schools serving high percentages of low-income families. […read more]

COMMENTARY: Separate can be equal: OurStory Matters, Black Dollars Matter

December 26, 2018 ellen 0

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Being forced to go in an unfavorable direction because all other paths are blocked is the worst feeling. Sadly, this has become the lifestyle for Blacks in America. […read more]

COMMENTARY: View from the Shipyard

December 12, 2018 ellen 0

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Black Friday 2018 will be remembered as the day 13 federal agencies released the doomsday fourth installment of the National Climate Assessment. […read more]

Chief Justice Roberts Scolds Trump

November 22, 2018 The Atlanta Voice 0

ATLANTA VOICE — Roberts, in a rare statement outside of any ruling, rebuked President Donald Trump’s assertions that the Ninth Circuit of Appeals based in San Francisco was biased against him because a judge ruled against his migrant asylum order. […read more]

Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Hilary Rohen celebrate Catholic Charities grand opening in the Mission District.

Catholic Charities opens in San Francisco’s Mission District

November 21, 2018 Lee Hubbard 0

OAKLAND POST — Catholic Charities has been active in the Mission district for the past fifty years. […read more]

Oakland Native Fred Blackwell Honored as a Most Admired CEO

November 17, 2018 Sarah Carpenter 0

OAKLAND POST — Blackwell was the only Black CEO to be honored this year, and the 10th Black CEO to receive the honor in the now 12 years that the award has been administered. […read more]

Jovanka Beckles, the Bay View’s proud choice for Assembly District 10, and Danny Glover campaign together for Yes on Prop 10.

COMMENTARY: ‘Yes on Prop 10,’ says Danny Glover

November 5, 2018 ellen 0

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Today, few middle-class families can afford to purchase a home in California. There is a housing crisis in my state – and across the United States of America. […read more]

San Franciscans of all stripes urge you to vote Yes on Prop C, Our City Our Home, a proposition largely created by homeless people, who gathered the signatures to put it on the ballot in record time and are drawing enormous support.

PRESS ROOM: Vote Yes on Prop C, Our City Our Home

November 4, 2018 ellen 0

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — This proposition is stunningly progressive and spectacularly needed. It’s a small tax on corporations that will dramatically improve the lives of homeless San Franciscans. […read more]

COMMENTARY: Radical Black Organization Calls on U.S. Government to Shut Down U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)

October 8, 2018 ellen 3

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has launched U.S. Out of Africa!: Shut Down AFRICOM, a campaign designed to end the U.S. invasion and occupation of Africa. […read more]

On Birds, Limes, and Bikes Without a Home

September 27, 2018 Heather Joy Thompson Esq. 0

MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — I have recently starting using Birds and Limes – those electric scooters that, seemingly overnight, have begun dotting urban landscapes across the country. […read more]

From left, former Nobel peace prize nominee Ellen Barry, founder of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and an expert witness in this case, listens as former prisoner and plaintiff Christina Zepeda speaks at the press conference. Earlier, Christina had told of losing her baby at Santa Rita.

Pregnant prisoners recount horrific jail conditions at Santa Rita in federal lawsuit

February 9, 2018 BlackPressUSA 0

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — In a major class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court here, conditions at the Alameda County Jail at Santa Rita sound more like they come out of a Charles Dickens novel than a modern day correctional facility.

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A Federal Agent’s Gun Was Used in San Francisco ‘Sanctuary City’ Murder Case

July 8, 2015 Kyle Yeldell 0

(The Washington Post) – The case of a killing on San Francisco’s Pier 14 last week has turned into a national debate about the merit’s of the city’s sanctuary city policy. But the criminal case against the man accused of shooting 32-year old Kate Steinle Read More

San Francisco Moves to Put Warnings on Ads for Sugary Drinks

June 10, 2015 Kyle Yeldell 0

JANIE HAR, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Soda and some other sugary drinks contribute to health problems, San Francisco supervisors said as they voted unanimously to approve health warnings on ads for such beverages. The soda industry said it might sue to block the Read More

San Francisco Considers Health Warning on Soda Advertising

June 9, 2015 Kyle Yeldell 0

JANIE HAR, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco officials are deciding whether to impose a warning on ads for a favorite drink of children and a bane of public health advocates: Sugary soda pop. The “Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Ordinance” would require health warnings Read More

San Francisco Police Under Fire for Racist Texts

May 15, 2015 Reporter II 0

Paul Elias, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Just the original charges were shocking: Six San Francisco police officers were accused of stealing from drug dealers. Then federal prosecutors released racist and homophobic text messages. Those texts have now turned a small-time police corruption case into Read More

An Analysis of San Francisco’s Startups Shows Where the ‘Real’ Silicon Valley is

February 10, 2015 Kyle Yeldell 0

(The Verge) – There’s a new map of entrepreneurial hotspots in California, and it’s here to show you where the “real” Silicon Valley is. By coding startup characteristics and looking out companies’ success six years down the line, researchers at MIT say that they Read More

FBI Sting Shows San Francisco Chinatown Underworld

March 28, 2014 Kyle Yeldell 0

GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Beneath the strings of red paper lanterns and narrow alleyways of the nation’s oldest Chinatown lies a sinister underworld, according to an FBI criminal complaint that has stunned even those familiar with the neighborhood’s history of gambling Read More

Interest in carshare apps surges after San Francisco transit strike

July 5, 2013 NNPAFreddie Comments Off

[USA TODAY] Just days before hundreds of Bay Area Rapid Transit workers went on strike, the online ridesharing network Avego bought a new Web address: bartstrike.com. By Monday morning, when 400,000 displaced commuters were struggling to get to work, Avego was going beyond offering an Read More