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. […]
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 a decades-long struggle for accountability. In the City of San Francisco, we are relying on strong,intelligent, and capable Black women to protect usfrom a government that does not have our […]
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 […]