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Wanda’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...
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Wanda’s Picks for March 2013
by Wanda Sabir ‘Mumia’ comes to Oakland Back when Mumia was a member of the Black Panther Party, he traveled west to work with the Oakland chapter – an important time in his evolution as a radical...
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To serve the people: Black Riders Liberation Party, new generation Black...
Next screening of the Black Riders documentary, ‘Let Um Hear Ya Coming,’ is Thursday, Oct. 3, 6:30 p.m., at La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley by Malaika Kambon The Black Riders...
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Looking at the life of freedom fighter Obi Egbuna Sr.
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Studying the revolutionary politics of the African world has been hard for me, because of the many revolutionary cliques that are at odds with each other in...
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Pattern of practice: Centuries of racist oppression culminating in mass...
by Mutope Duguma In 1619, the first Africans were brought to North America by force to be slaves. From 1619 to 1776, this brutal chattel slave system was able to flourish in the 13 British colonies....
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Remembering the Black Panther Party newspaper, April 25, 1967- September 1980
Panthers Fred Bennett and Judi Douglas sell papers. Note the Panthers on every corner. by Billy X Jennings The front page of the first issue of The Black Panther, published April 25, 1967 The Black...
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‘The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution’
‘The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution’ will be screened on Friday, Oct. 2, in San Francisco at the Opera Plaza Theater, in Berkeley at the Shattuck Theater and in San Rafael at the...
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Bobby 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...
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Stanley Nelson’s ‘The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution’ is the best...
by Marc Norton The title of Stanley Nelson’s new documentary film, “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” says it clearly. The Black Panther Party was, in its day, the leading organizational...
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Bay View founding publisher: I was inspired by Malcolm, Martin, Elijah and...
Interview of Muhammad al-Kareem by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey Muhammad al-Kareem founded the New Bayview in September 1976. This photo was taken about that time. Muhammad al-Kareem...
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Alprentice ‘Bunchy’ Carter ‘would have rode with Nat Turner’
by Norman (Otis) Richmond, aka Jalali “If Bunchy had been on the same plantation as Nat Turner, you can believe he would have rode with Nat Turner. That’s the type of person Bunchy was.” – Kumasi Black...
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The politics of oppression
by Mumia Abu-Jamal Most presidential elections concentrate on the candidates – their views, positions and, perhaps more importantly, their persona. Longtime freedom fighter Gerald Sanders rouses the...
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They called him Bunchy, like a bunch of greens
by Malik Ismail Bunchy Carter “When they killed Bunchy, they killed the Party – we just didn’t know it at the time.” – Roland Freeman, member of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther...
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Black History Month
by Brian Griffin Former political prisoner Assata Shakur managed to escape from prison in 1979 and was granted political asylum in Cuba, where she has lived since 1984. Black History Month is not just...
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Kill and be killed: Police murders in Oakland
by Carl Finamore Banners at the “Defend African People’s Right to Resist” march and rally on MacArthur Boulevard Wednesday recalled the long history of Oakland police murders of young Black men. –...
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SF 8 victory dance: Prosecution admits evidence is insufficient
Join the SF 8 to celebrate this historic occasion Tuesday, July 7, 5:30- 9 p.m., at the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center, 1050 McAllister at Webster, San Francisco, wheelchair accessible; it’s a...
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Prison Panthers and awakening the Black radical
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington “What made him (Malcolm X) unfamiliar and dangerous was not his hatred for white people but his love for Blacks, his apprehension of the horror of the Black condition, and...
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Soledad uncensored: Racism and the hyper-policing of Black bodies, Part 1
by Talib Williams The Bay View is serializing the introduction to “Annotated Tears, Vol. 2,” by Talib Williams, who is currently incarcerated in Soledad, California, and has written the history of...
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Soledad uncensored: Racism and the hyper-policing of Black bodies, Part 2
Jonathan Jackson, 17, planned what’s come to be called the Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion to free the Soledad Brothers, including his brother, George, by taking the judge hostage. But George was not...
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