ARTICLES' ARCHIVE

THE BREAKING POINT – PART I
How San Francisco Reduced Visible Homelessness While Driving More Poor People Into a Jail System in Crisis Photo Credits:(Bottom Left) A police officer stands by,

DISTRICT 10 DIDN’T COME FOR A PERFORMANCE. IT CAME LOOKING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
“At a community forum in Bayview-Hunters Point, candidates confronted decades of unanswered questions about housing, environmental justice, public safety, and the future of San Francisco’s

WHEN REPRESENTATION DISAPPEARS: PLAZA EAST, PUBLIC HOUSING, AND THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY
“A community can survive broken plumbing longer than it can survive broken democracy.” Photo credits: https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-public-housing-breed-19832585.php (Bottom Left)https://therealdeal.com/san-francisco/2022/09/02/sfs-plaza-east-housing-project-targeted-for-redevelopment/ (top left – 2022) – McCormack Baron

GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM, BRING KEVIN EPPS HOME
Why California’s Clemency Power Exists Photo Credits: Justice 4 Kevin Epps, Malik Washington &https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-endorses-former-british-government-aide-steve-hilton-california-governors-2026-04-06/The Seal of the Governor of the State of California is displayed

CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced General Order No. 3, informing enslaved African

LOCKED DOORS, OPEN QUESTIONS: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, AND THE CRISIS OF TRUST AT HUNTERS POINT
As new discoveries emerge inside a secured Navy building, Bayview-Hunters Point residents are asking whether the latest revelations represent an isolated incident—or another chapter in

THE MOST COMMON PIECE OF TRASH IN SAN FRANCISCO MAY ALSO BE THE MOST IGNORED
As advocates push to ban plastic cigarette filters, supporters say the fight is about cleaner streets, environmental justice, and stopping pollution before it starts. Vince

STRUCK BLACK, TRIED WHITE: WHY KARMELO ANTHONY’S JURY FIGHT SHOULD ALARM EVERY AMERICAN
The question is not whether the jury was all white. The question is whether Black jurors were excluded for reasons that others survived—and whether the

REPARATIONS ON TRIAL: PART 3
The People Begin to Awaken A courtroom setback for reparations opponents has not ended the fight. It has clarified it: the real battle now is