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Stop the swiftboating of KPFA board member Tracy Rosenberg!
KPFA staffers, community allies say, ‘Vote NO on the recall’ by Anthony Fest There’s more mischief underway at community radio station KPFA. KPFA subscribers will soon be receiving ballots in the mail...
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A Celebration of Transformation: A fundraiser for the Homeboy Hotline
by Batyah Ayinde Oakland – The Homeboy Hotline will host its first annual fundraiser celebration on Saturday, June 23, 2-4 p.m., at Hibiscus Restaurant, located at 1745 San Pablo Ave., Oakland. Davey D...
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NY Times underestimates Oakland’s radicals
by Davey D Hunters Point filmmaker Kevin Epps speaks at a rally for Oscar Grant. – Photo: Thomas Hawk, Flickr The New York Times published a piece called “Oakland, the Last Refuge of Radical America”...
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Vote ‘United for Community Radio’ for the KPFA Local Station Board
by Akio Tanaka Current situation and background As long time observers know, there never seems to be peace at KPFA-Pacifica. Minister of Information JR Valrey interviews Theo, King of Carnaval, on May...
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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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Bring JR back to KPFA now!
Join KPFA’s Black and other broadcasters of color and unpaid staff for a Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, April 11, 6 p.m., in Laney College Student Center Room 401, fourth floor, 900 Fallon St., Oakland...
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KPFA’s Townhall on Racism: General manager asked to step down
by Karen Hutton Supporters of ending the suspension of Minister of Information JR Valrey made up the majority of the crowd at KPFA’s Townhall on Racism at Laney College April 11. JR’s show, the Block...
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Davey D: JR’s voice is indispensable to KPFA’s conversation on race
by Davey D Ever since the George Zimmerman verdict was read finding him “not guilty” and justice for a murdered Trayvon Martin was denied, there’s been a nationwide outcry for us as a country to sit...
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Pacifica board member Tracy Rosenberg weighs in on JR’s unjustifiable ban...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR My banning from the KPFA airwaves on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, after 18 years of volunteering to produce broadcast journalism informing the listening public...
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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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Fleetwood’s ‘I Just Wanna Ball’ will be featured at the SF Black Film Fest...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR First it was being a rapper, then an author. Now the Bay Area-based renaissance man known as Fleetwood, aka Robert Bowden, has taken it to the next level with...
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The battle for Net Neutrality: an interview wit’ journalist Davey D
M.O.I. JR will interview Davey D about Net Neutrality live on Thursday, Aug. 14, 6:30 p.m., at SoleSpace, 1714 Telegraph, downtown Oakland – admission is free by The People’s Minister of Information JR...
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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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Radio personality Wesley Burton killed in hit and run car crash: Davey D speaks
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Davey D’s Street Knowledge radio show on KMEL is where a lot of current Bay Area radio veterans first got a chance to cut their teeth on air 20 years ago, as...
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Profiled by race and disability in Ottawa, Canada
by Leroy Moore A lot of activists in the U.S. joke during election times or when things get hot that they will move to Canada, but Canada is no utopia and can be rough living especially for people of...
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God bless Charlotte: Clergy believe protester killed by police – UPDATED
by Davey D A few things we should all be thinking about: First of all, a young man named Justin Carr (his name was initially reported as Cantrell) was shot in the head Sept. 21, the second night’s...
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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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Love life, don’t take life: First Love Life billboard is up at 24th &...
This is the first of 25 Love Life billboards slated to be erected in Oakland. “Love Life” was adopted as Oakland’s official motto after a long, strong campaign by Donald Lacy and countless supporters....
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Zach Norris releases new book, ‘We Keep Us Safe,’ Feb. 4
by Terence Long and Ashley Chambers, Ella Baker Center Oakland – After more than 20 years of experience as a thought leader in criminal justice and community empowerment, Ella Baker Center Executive...
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Wanda’s Picks for February 2020
Brother Muhammad Hanif, Jimi Evins and Raymond Nat Turner at the poetry celebration Feb. 1 – Photo: Wanda Sabir by Wanda Sabir Happy Black History Month! We get an extra day and we need it too to get...
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