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Terry Collins and Willie Ratcliff, the OGs of KPOO and the Bay View, discuss...
Terry Collins stands in the doorway to KPOO, the Black-owned radio station he and Joe Rudolph founded in 1971 as Poor People’s Radio, Inc. KPOO will be first to receive an award on Black Media...
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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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A Harriet Tubman Christmas story: an interview with ‘Go Tell It!’ playwright...
by People’s Minister of Information JR Taiwo Kujichagulia-Seitu took almost half a decade to recreate her debut theatrical piece that centers around the story of Harriet Tubman rescuing her brothers...
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Rally for Yogi: It’s time for Hugo ‘Yogi Bear’ Pinell to come home!
by Kiilu Nyasha Long distance freedom fighters Donna Wallach and Kiilu Nyasha share their wisdom at the Rally for Yogi. – Photo: Scott Braley I’m delighted to report the rally for Yogi Bear was just...
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Lyric Performing Arts Academy is set to open in September ‘13: an interview...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR With the U.S. economy turning a blind eye to unemployment in the Black community, it is on us to create business and employment opportunities for our...
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From KPFA to Block Report Radio Station
by The People’s Minister of Information JR On Sept. 13 of 2013, Pacifica Radio Executive Director Summer Reece signed a directive saying that I was banned from KPFA and all Pacifica radio stations...
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Harriet Tubman Christmas play ‘Go Tell It’ is back: an interview wit’...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR One of the most informative ways that a family can celebrate the so-called holiday season without celebrating the Roman fertility holiday Saturnalia, which...
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KCSM’s ‘Announcer of the Year’ Greg Bridges in his own words
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey Greg Bridges is one of the Black broadcasting giants on the airwaves of the Bay Area. He was recently named “Announcer of the Year” by KCSM, yet...
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Black Media Appreciation Night 2014 this Saturday, Sept. 13
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Every two years, Block Report Radio and the SF Bay View newspaper get together to sponsor Black Media Appreciation Night, a night when we honor the very best...
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Third Street Stroll …
by Rochelle Metcalfe HOW SWEET IT WAS! DR. WILLIE RATCLIFF, our beloved Publisher, a VIRGO MAN, celebrated his 82nd birthday surrounded by his lovely wife MARY RATCLIFF, charming in a blue dress, staff...
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The meaning of Black Media Appreciation Night 2014
by The People’s Minister of Information JR On Sept. 13, 2014, the most progressive of the Bay Area’s Black and pro-Black journalists came together to celebrate one another and to give awards to a well...
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African American classical music: Renaissance woman P. Kujichagulia speaks
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Kujichagulia Ms. Kujichagulia is one of the most revered Pan Africanist griots, lecturers, writers and musicians based in the Bay Area at this current moment....
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Wanda’s Picks for February 2016
by Wanda Sabir Ninety years ago in 1926, Carter G. Woodson (Dec. 19, 1875-April 3, 1950), historian, scholar, author and maverick for Black self-determination, founded Negro History Week. In 1976 the...
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Wanda’s Picks for April 2016
by Wanda Sabir Wanda welcomes the crowd to “Dr. Mutulu Shakur Is Welcome Here,” the Bay Area’s event, held March 20, in a nationwide series of events to convince the federal parole board that beloved...
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Bay View turns 40! Part 2
Editorial by Bay View publisher Dr. Willie Ratcliff Now, as the San Francisco Bay View newspaper’s 40th birthday year comes to a close, is the time to bring up to date the historical sketch of our...
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‘Haiti will never accept the electoral coup d’etat’
by Dave Welsh Some of the “cast” of a dramatic evening, gathered around the woman who should be president of Haiti, Dr. Maryse Narcisse, are, from left, musicians and Vukani Muwethu choir members...
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Wanda’s Picks for March
by Wanda Sabir Editor’s note: This column appears in the March issue of the Bay View newspaper – in print. Madame C.J. Walker Business and Community Recognition Awards Luncheon The National Coalition...
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Where did all the jobs go?
by Phavia Kujichagulia America has truly become the land of plenty. There are plenty of Ponzi schemes, plenty of bank failures and plenty of foreclosures. This leaves us with plenty of debt, plenty of...
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Wanda’s Picks for October 2012
by Wanda Sabir Engaged and exuberant: TaSin Sabir and her fiancé, Shawn Lyles September is a special month. It’s the birth month of my brother Mark, who was put up for adoption, so I don’t know him....
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Black media, Black liberation: an interview with People’s Minister of...
by Willie Ratcliff, publisher, San Francisco Bay View Several of the people who will be on stage at Black Media Appreciation Night on Nov. 26 got together this past June 16 outside San Francisco...
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