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Bay Area muralist honored in ‘A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe Boone’ at...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR “My dream was to develop a new color that no one had ever seen in life. It hasn’t come true yet, but that was a dream of mine when I was a little girl,” says...
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Hugo Pinell’s daughter Allegra invites you to join in honoring her father on...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey On Aug. 12, 2015, within the walls of New Folsom Prison, freedom fighter and political prisoner Hugo “Yogi” Pinell of the San Quentin 6 was...
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Remembering Yogi
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey Many members of Yogi’s family spoke of their love for him. His daughter Allegra brought the house to tears with her message. – Photo: JR Valrey, Block...
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‘The Black Woman Is God’ art exhibition is back!
by The People’s Minister of Information JR One of the first conscious things that we realize when we are babies is our connection to our mother. We usually learn to connect with our father later, but a...
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Jalal ‘Lightnin Rod’ Nuraddin of The Last Poets Speaks on ‘Hustlers...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey BlockReportRadio.com interviews the father of Gangsta Rap, Jalal “Lightening Rod” Nuriddin of the Last Poets, about his classic piece, “The Hustlers’...
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‘Codigo Color’ at SF Black Film Fest: Cuban doc explores colorism and...
by The Minister of Information JR The island most intriguing to the imagination of the U.S. currently is the Caribbean nation of Cuba, which fought and won a revolution in 1959 against the U.S. puppet...
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Celebrate Eugene E. White Day in San Francisco July 10!
Eugene White, the artist at work Folks in the Fillmore and throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area are getting ready to celebrate Eugene E. White Day, honoring renowned and revered local artist,...
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Wanda’s Picks for October 2016
by Wanda Sabir To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1966 Hunters Point Uprising, Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin (in the colorful dress), chair of the African American Studies Department at City College, who was...
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22nd annual Maafa Commemoration
by Wanda Sabir What I loved this year was all the celebratory dancing from just before our ancestors crossed into the unknown territory to landing on these shores and celebrating life and the...
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SFAAHCS Film Festival: ‘African Americans in Times of War: A Resilient Spirit’
For 62 years, the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society has been one of the leading voices promoting Black history and the contributions of African Americans both nationally...
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London Breed is free to be our mayor
Editorial by Dr. Willie and Mary Ratcliff The Chronicle caught the irony. “It seemed like a bizarre move for San Francisco’s progressive supervisors to remove a self-made African American woman from...
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Money changes situations: an interview wit’ financial advisor Kendra Willis
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey We all love to spend money, but how many of us have learned how to effectivily save for a rainy day, college, a business or retirement? How many of us...
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Black community leaders rally in support of voter registration
#500forLondon: Leading mayoral candidate London Breed rallies big crowd, registers voters on Third Street by Tara Moriarty San Francisco — Board of Supervisors president and candidate for mayor...
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Lady Mem’fis passes, leaving fans and family ‘Expressions of a Legacy’
Lady Mem’fis, also known as Jacqueline Ruth Johnson, passed away Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, at 6:12 a.m. at Home Sweet Home, a skilled nursing facility in Daly City, California, age 73. She was born May...
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Frisco’s Project Level young people are strapping up for a college tour
by Minister of Information JR Valrey Project Level is a phenomenal arts and entrepreneurship program for teens and young adults in San Francisco. It is headquartered at the African American Art and...
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Visit virtual reality at the African American Art & Culture Complex
Senaiya watches her cousin Zuri explore virtual reality at the African American Art and Culture Complex. by People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey At a recent event that I attended at the African...
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Darkworld matters: an interview wit’ visual artist Melanin
Melanin painted this mural featuring Ras G on a pillar at the African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco’s historic Fillmore District. by Minister of Information JR Valrey Melanin is...
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Transitional thinking: The Black Bay Area Quarantine Chronicles #1
Tarika Lewis and her magic violin charmed and stirred the audience at the Bay View’s Black Media Appreciation Night Sept. 12, 2015, at the African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco’s...
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The Oakland-based free Sunday hot dinner program
Chef Monifa Dayo by JR Valrey, Black New World Journalist Society “Ingenuity is the reigning order of the day” would be my choice of words if I had to sum up the COVID-19 pandemic’s quarantine into a...
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Sheryl Davis of the Human Rights Commission: Showing love to San Francisco...
Celebrating a stellar event, the Human Rights Commission’s 25th Anniversary “Evening with Dr. Cornel West” are Dr. West, Sheryl Davis and her son, Henry Lee Davis III, a student in communications at...
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