1968: The strike at San Francisco State
WEBDec 28, 2018 · Fifty years ago, students at San Francisco State embarked on a campus strike that lasted five months – the longest student strike in U.S. history. Led by the Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front, the strike was a high point of student struggle in the revolutionary year of 1968. It was met by ferocious repression, but the strikers persevered and won the first College of Ethnic ...
James Beasley: Ex-drug kingpin determined to gain redemption
WEBMay 7, 2012 · San Francisco – The name Beasley has rung true in the streets of Bayview Hunters Point since before the Double Rock housing projects were built in the 1950s. Of all of the Beasleys, there was none who controlled the streets like James Beasley Jr. As told to his daughter Monet, James tells his amazing story in the soon-to-be-released autobiography and documentary entitled “Deep Rooted ...
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The national ban on Newport, Kool and other menthol ‘squares’ …
WEBMay 21, 2021 · On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced new rules intended to ban mentholated tobacco products like Kool, Newport, Salem and other cigarette brands in a few years. But just five years ago some supporters of the FDA’s decision said any ban on menthol cigarettes seemed like an impossible feat – …
Linda Brooks Burton, pride of Bayview Hunters Point, passes
WEBOn Sept. 19, Bayview Hunters Point lost a favorite daughter. Linda Brooks Burton, born and raised right here in the neighborhood, served as managing librarian of the Bayview Library for nearly 15 years and, a 30-year veteran of the San Francisco Public Library, was recently put in charge of all six libraries in San Francisco’s southeast sector.
David Johnson of the San Quentin 6 on his comrade Hugo ‘Yogi’ …
WEBDec 28, 2015 · Hugo “Yogi” Pinell was a soldier of the people. He defended Black prisoners against racist attacks and stood up for the basic human rights of prisoners. Racist prisoners don’t respect prison unity. There was an agreement in existence at the time to end all hostilities. But it was an agreement that was not honored by racist White prisoners.
Hidden History Black Museum opens in Los Angeles
WEBMar 7, 2023 · The History Museum is located at 2131 W. Jefferson Blvd in Los Angeles, Calif. For information on hours, go to www.hiddenhistorymuseum.com. Lee Hubbard is a Bay Area journalist who earned his masters’ degree in journalism at Northeastern University. Well known to longtime Bay View readers, he can be reached at [email protected].
Former Treasure Island residents report radiation and chemical ...
WEBThese crushing personal accounts of lives living, lived and lost on Treasure Island, are a clear indictment against the white supremacist, racist, capitalist, profits-over-people developers, the U.S. Navy and government entities, which intentionally continue to withhold information and refute any danger and harm to residents suffering and dying from extreme toxic conditions of their harmful ...