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Telling the truth
Rapper DLabrie interviews Minister of Information JR The streets of Port au Prince look like they were hit with an atomic bomb. How would you feel if your street looked like this and you were called a...
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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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Break the siege on Gaza NOW!
by Donna Wallach Regina Carey, one of three Bay Area residents chosen for the upcoming voyage to break the siege of Gaza, says, “The real victims are children ... yet we’re sacrificing them” when, for...
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An interview with Kevin Cooper: We may be sending an innocent man to his death
by Natasha Reid Kevin Cooper at his preliminary hearing in 1983. Kevin Cooper has been locked down on death row in San Quentin for the past 26 years. He was convicted of the 1983 murder of the Ryen...
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Two tributes to Black Panther Field Marshal Richard Aoki
These tributes were written shortly after the death of Richard Aoki on March 15, 2009. Richard Aoki, an American revolutionary by Elbert “Big Man” Howard Elbert “Big Man” Howard and Richard Aoki, two...
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Mumia, the long distance revolutionary: an interview wit’ documentary...
Don’t miss the world premiere of ‘Long Distance Revolutionary’ at the Mill Valley Film Festival on Saturday, Oct. 6, 12 noon, at the Rafael Film Center in San Rafael; get your tickets before they...
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The Bay View has been my strength
by Rashad Mabu After 12 years I have finally made it to a halfway house. It is a blessing yet still a continuous struggle with the system because, as my dear bro Eugene Thomas says, they harass you...
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Black Media Appreciation Night was a dream come true – thank you all!
by Mary Ratcliff We got to Yoshi’s early Monday night, Nov. 26, to set up for Black Media Appreciation Night, and there on the stage for the sound check was a magnificent African band. I’d expected a...
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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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‘Let’s just shut down’: an interview with Spokesperson Ray of the Free...
by Annabelle Parker Annabelle Parker: How did you come to start the Free Alabama Movement? What was the issue that triggered it? And were you all in general population? You are still in solitary (the...
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Losing lives while gaining profit: 4 deaths in 2 months is business as usual...
by Anthony Robinson Jr. “It should never be easy for them to destroy us.” – Comrade G In the last two months – from Dec. 27 to Feb. 10, 2015 – four prisoners have died here at Tallahatchie County...
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Johanna Fernandez: We need to bring Mumia home!
by Johanna Fernandez I visited Mumia this past Saturday, June 13. Mumia was in good spirits. We talked about the happenings of the world, and he shared a lot about his stay at Geisinger Medical Center....
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I had to write on brown paper bags when these rogues came and confiscated...
by Shyheim Deen El-Mu’min Part 1: Introduction Editor’s note: At the Bay View, we call this the “paper bag story” because much of it was written on brown paper bags after the guards at SECC, the...
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Black women political prisoners of the police state
by Linda G. Ford The Rev. Joy Powell says she was “raped, railroaded and bamboozled” by police. Her crime? Being a poor Black woman who faced off against the police – protesting their violent...
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Mumia: Wars against Assange
by Mumia Abu-Jamal The intrepid journalist and author Glenn Greenwald, in his 2014 work, “No Place to Hide” (Metropolitan Books: NY), offers a damning portrait of the U.S. media, long trained to...
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Prisoners, mass incarceration and freedom
by Valerie Haynes Who are prisoners? A prisoner can be someone’s father, grandfather, mother, brother, sister or child. It could be you – though you’re more likely to be a prisoner if you’re Black,...
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Act now to save Mumia’s eyesight and to demand his release!
The potential loss of his sight, when the man called “the voice of the voiceless” knows that other prisoners count on him to speak for them, is troubling Mumia. The Bay View urges our readers to sign...
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Fight Toxic Prisons Convergence report back
Recently paroled MOVE 9 political prisoners Debbie and Michael Africa, and their son Michael Africa Jr., delivering the keynote talk to a full auditorium of the 2019 Fight Toxic Prisons Convergence in...
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Third Circuit denies Mumia a rehearing
Taína Asili, puertorriqueña poet, vocalist and visual artist, performed at the rally for Mumia on the 4th of July in front of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. In the background are some of the...
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‘Unalienable Rights,’ an animated film on Philly’s ‘78 attack on MOVE
by JR Valrey There are a few animated short films in the Oakland International Film Festival this year, but there is only one that mixes documentary story-telling with animation. “Unalienable Rights”...
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