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No bond no work
Don’t let bonding stop Liberty Builders from building the new Bayview Library and hiring and training the community. Tell the mayor the Bayview Library must be built by the people it serves: Call (415)...
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Black Builders will build new Bayview Library
Bay Area Black Builders will join mass JOBS RALLY Saturday, May 8, 12 noon, new Federal Building, 7th & Mission, SF – Monthly 2nd Saturday meetings resume June 12 Editor’s note: Bay View publisher...
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Arizona: Corporate greed for cheap labor
by Joseph Debro Mack Lyons, standing here with the legendary Cesar Chavez, was a pioneering leader of the United Farm Workers who organized Latino and Black farm workers and led strikes and boycotts...
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The Bayview Library story: Sophie Maxwell comes out
by Joseph Debro Construction of the new Bayview Library, which will look like this, is scheduled to get underway later this summer. The Bayview Hunters Point community has claimed it, saying we don't...
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Black leaders stand strong for Congresswoman Maxine Waters, champion of...
Statements by Joseph Debro, president of Bay Area Black Builders and founder of the National Association of Minority Contractors; Danny Bakewell Sr., chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers...
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Ethics case: Debro reveals probe’s motives, Waters fights back with the facts
by Joseph Debro Congresswoman Waters invited Kemba Smith, right, to speak on a Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference panel Sept. 24, 2009, about her experiences with mandatory minimum...
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Jobs are the answer
by Joseph Debro Blacks working construction at a port, but not at the Port of Oakland; these men are working at a Caribbean port. – Photo: Erol Kahveci On July 28, the Oakland redevelopment commission...
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The trials of Rep. Maxine Waters: Ethics or payback?
by Joseph Debro Congresswoman Maxine Waters testifies before the House Intelligence Commitee March 16, 1998, then chaired by Congressman Porter Goss, on CIA involvement in drug trafficking. Goss, who...
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The stolen life of Jimon Clark
by Joseph Debro Jimon Clark, 13 Jimon Clark, a young bright Black male, 13 years old, was executed on the mean streets of East Oakland on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. His execution was a one-day news...
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Douse the firestorm, let Maxine Waters get back to the people’s business
by Joseph Debro The fact that Congresswoman Maxine Waters is a leading advocate for banking reform flies in the face of ethics charges that her advocacy for Black banks benefited her personally and is...
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San Francisco locks Blacks out from building our own library
by Joseph Debro The Bayview Library, at Third and Revere, the center of San Francisco’s Black heartland, has long served as a second home for the children and all the people of Bayview Hunters Point....
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We must help ourselves
by Joseph Debro Beth Eden Baptist Church is located at 1183 10th St. in West Oakland. Construction is not rocket science. Slaves, who could not read, constructed mansions that are now hundreds of years...
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Bay Area Black Builders call on Black churches to build Black
by Joseph Debro, President, Bay Area Black Builders On Saturday, Jan. 30, at 10 a.m., the Bay Area Black Builders plan to picket the Lord’s house. Beth Eden Church, a great church in the Black...
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A West Oakland hero
by Joseph Debro The Prescott Joseph Center’s breathmobile is in demand in neighborhoods with high asthma rates all over the Bay Area. There is a man working in West Oakland with whom my wife and I went...
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Civil rights hero Ray Dones dies
by Joseph Debro The nation has lost one of its unsung civil rights heroes: Ray Dones was the Martin Luther King of the construction industry. Forty-three years ago, I met a 50-year-old man whose name...
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Why so few Black men are working
by Joseph Debro To fill the need for electricians on three major hospital construction projects, the long dormant union training hall at 3033 Alvarado St. has started a new class, where retired...
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High five to Bayview Hunters Point
by Joseph Debro Lennar Urban’s giant check for $7.3 million rests on the second-floor balcony of City Hall where the award ceremony took place. – Photo: Brant Ward, San Francisco Chronicle The May 4...
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Welcome to segregated California
by Joseph Debro As a descendant of former slaves and as an immigrant from the South, I have a unique perspective on segregation. My parents migrated to Oakland from Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. Like...
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City auditor spanks Black council members for trying to bring jobs to Oakland
by Joseph Debro Oakland City Councilmember Desley Brooks – Photo: Megan Molteni Like President Clinton in his first run for president, Oakland’s city auditor developed her creds in the conservative...
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Claude and DeBray (Fly Benzo) Carpenter: We demand work in our own neighborhood
by Bay Area Black Builders Black people have largely been locked out of construction work in San Francisco since 1998. That’s a shame, because construction work is a solution to many of the ills in the...
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