JUSTICE BURIED BENEATH THE RADIATION: HOW A 1957 NUCLEAR SHIELD LAW JUST TOLD BLACK SAN FRANCISCO THAT FRAUD DOESN’T COUNT
Special Report — August 10, 2026 There are rulings that surprise a city, and there are rulings that confirm what a community has been telling America for eighty years: that Black life in Bayview–Hunters Point is negotiable, and that when the paperwork gets uncomfortable, the law will find a way to look the other way. […]
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 Salazar built and managed the complex in 2001. Since then, its residents have complained about substandard conditions, including leaking pipes, rotting floors, electrical fires and pests.https://www.instagram.com/deanprestond5/ (Dean Preston & Dennis […]
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 whether San Francisco will defend Black-specific repair—or retreat into safe symbolism while Bayview-Hunters Point and the Fillmore continue to carry the weight of documented municipal harm. Photo credits:https://www.kqed.org/news/11948198/examining-reparations-and-the-historical-harms-of-slavery-and-racism-in-california (top left) […]
WHAT THE LATEST RADIOACTIVE FINDING AT HUNTERS POINT NAVAL SHIPYARD REALLY MEANS
A New Discovery, an Old Wound, and the Mounting Implications for Health, Redevelopment, Trust, and Environmental Justice in Bayview–Hunters Point Photo credits:https://www.sfheritage.org/research/hunterspoint/ (1945)https://www.sf.gov/hpns-cleanup-status (2025)https://www.kqed.org/science/1999631/navy-apologizes-for-11-month-delay-in-reporting-radioactive-material-at-hunters-point (2022) There are discoveries that surprise a city, and there are discoveries that confirm what a community has been saying for decades. The recent finding of additional radiological material at the […]
“WE ARE NOT DISPOSABLE”: BLACK SENIORS AT KING–GARVEY CO-OP DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY AS RESIDENTS ALLEGE INTIMIDATION, EVICTION THREATS AND ABUSE OF POWER
Residents accuse powerful actors inside historic Black cooperative of weaponizing legal pressure against elders while city officials vow hearings and possible investigations Photo credits:https://www.pexels.com/@gale-sanders-1349874640/downloads/ (question marks)Top Left: Dorothy Ward and Loloa JacksonBottom row: Mawuli Tugbenyoh, Arieann Harrison, Bilal Mahmood, and Dede Hewitt SAN FRANCISCO — The room inside the King–Garvey Co-Op on Friday evening did […]
AFTER MOTHER’S DAY, THE MOTHERS STILL MARCH:
Honoring Sharen Hewitt and Marie Harrison Through the Living Work of Dede Hewitt and Arieann Harrison In San Francisco, Black mothers do not die when they leave this earth.They remain in the struggle, in the daughters they raised, in the people they taught to fight and in every room where somebody still has the courage […]
THE PRICE OF BEING POOR – PART 7
“Built on Promises, Standing on Questions: What Is Really Happening Inside Alice Griffith Apartments?”A MALIK WASHINGTON INVESTIGATION Photo Credits:Bottom: https://www.kqed.org/news/38840/feds-award-30m-to-remake-sf-housing-projectTop: https://tyrafennell.wordpress.com/tag/double-rock/Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Kg077PO80 background The land was studied. The risks were known. The mitigation was required. So why are residents now asking whether the system designed to protect them is failing in real time? THE BODIES […]
FUND THE OVERSIGHT — OR ANSWER THE QUESTION
Part 2 of San Francisco’s 23-Year Reckoning Photo Credits:Top left: https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/bayview-hunters.htmlTop right: https://www.canwelive.org/environmental-justiceBottom left: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/environmental-law-clinic/lawsuit-filed-over-radioactive-waste-at-hunters-point-naval-shipyard/Bottom right: https://extinctionrebellionsfbay.org/announcements/2022/04/ally-event-peoples-earth-day-2022/ In Part One of this investigation, we established a documented timeline. The question before the City is not whether pollution burden exists.The question is whether oversight capacity will be strengthened — or reduced — at precisely the moment […]
“THEY KNEW”: SAN FRANCISCO’S 23-YEAR RECKONING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM IN BAYVIEW–HUNTERS POINT
How environmental racism was formally acknowledged — and why oversight now matters more than ever Photo Credit: Hunters Point Shipyard Art Gallery, 451 Galvez, San Francisco, California 94124 EDITOR’S NOTEThis is the first of a two-part investigation into environmental racism in San Francisco’s Bayview–Hunters Point neighborhood, the documented history of contamination and health disparities, and […]