A CITY ON TRIAL: SUPPRESSED TRUTH, COURTROOM COLLUSION, AND A JURY NOW DECIDING SAN FRANCISCO’S SOUL
The trial of Kevin Epps illustrates and highlights contradictions not easily recognized or embraced by citizens who live in the City of San Francisco. An editor of a historic national Black newspaper. A newspaper that has confronted injustice and racism in this city for decades has become the target of a modern day lynching in […]
WHEN JUSTICE TILTS: SELECTIVE PROSECUTION, POLITICAL CALCULUS, AND THE LOOMING VERDICT IN THE KEVIN EPPS MURDER TRIAL
On December 5, 2025, the steps of San Francisco’s Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street transformed into a platform for truth-telling. Community members — artists, elders, activists, scholars, and working-class residents — gathered to shine a bright light on the prosecution of filmmaker and cultural historian Kevin Epps, a case that has come to […]
THE KEVIN EPPS MURDER TRIAL: Part I
My Observations and Presentation of Information the Prosecution Wants Suppressed San Francisco styles itself as a progressive city, a beacon of justice, equity, and truth. But inside Department 13 of San Francisco Superior Court, on November 13 and 14, 2025, I witnessed a criminal trial that exposes how fragile those ideals become when a Black […]