Tag: Police Brutality
‘Small Axe’: ardent slices of life from an overlooked community
Director Steve McQueen's five-part series explores recent UK Black history, from protest to celebration
Don’t forget the beats: A mixtape-homage to the Bay’s 2020 sounds
Set inspired by this year's 48 Hills music coverage fits in E-40's social distancing anthem and Eki Shola's aural healing—dedicated to the late, great Cutty Banks.
Sava Cannabis: Best of the Bay 2020 Editors’ Pick
Cannabis relief from the wild ups and downs—and downs—of the year, delivered directly to your door by this queer- and women-owned outfit
Albums of the Year 2020: Wild spirits helped us hold tightly onto humanity
From police brutality call-outs to a new century gospel, artists still wrung beauty and inspiration from a hard year
A local artist honors lost Black lives, portrait by portrait
Painter Radha Mehta's series commemorating lives lost to racially motivated murder and police brutality spreads to cities around the country.
The air is bad all over the city. It’s way worse in Bayview Hunters Point
Although unhealthy air quality canceled the car parade to City Hall to Mayor Breed’s office, a small but devoted group of 30 Bayview Hunters Point residents and protestors gathered...
Grab that virtual wig, it’s all aboard for Oaklash!
Weekend-long Oakland drag festival Oaklash (Fri/4-Sun/6 at www.twitch.tv/oaklash2020) has become such an integral part of the Bay Area queer performance scene that I was taken aback—aback, I say—when I remembered...
10 artists centering Latinidad in the sound of the Bay today
For over 50 years, the Bay Area has been a crucial intersection of global music. Everything from psych rock to funk, hip hop, and diasporic sounds of Latin America,...
Black youth a new organizing force in Oakland
As former Black Panther Angela Davis spoke to the crowd of thousands that had gathered at the Port of Oakland June 19 to protest police brutality, a group of...
In ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble,’ filmmaker Dawn Porter limns civil rights icon
Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon who has represented the 5th District of Georgia, including Atlanta, since 1987, is 80 now, running for re-election this fall and battling...
