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Bodies In The Trees,Silence In Washington
When a Hanging Is Ruled Suicide, Who Makes Sure the Investigation Was Worthy of the Dead? By Malik Washington | Destination Freedom Media Group & The Davis Vanguard “This is probably the most well-known photo of a lynching. It was taken by professional photographer in Marion, Lawrence Beitler, who printed and sold hundreds as souvenirs and postcards. The photo inspired the song Strange Fruit.
Justice Buried Beneath the Radiation: How a 1957 Nuclear Shield Law Just Told Black San Francisco That Fraud Doesn’t Count
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.
Malik and Gale Washington Donate $1,000 to Davis Vanguard, Call on Others to Join Them
Malik and Gale Washington of Destination Freedom Media Group officially donates $1,000 of our hard-earned money to the Davis Vanguard. With this donation, we seek to show how passionate and committed we are to the Vanguard’s mission. We invite other couples in Northern California who are able to match our donation so that we can help sustain and preserve this unique media and social justice platform.
Built on Promises, Managed by Contradictions – Price of Being Poor – Part 9
A 2024 conceptual rendering of the larger development, via the SF Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure Candlestick Point Development to Finally Start Construction This Summer Photo credit: https://sfist.com/2026/06/17/candlestick-point-development-to-finally-start-construction-this-summer/ A federally subsidized “showpiece” of San Francisco redevelopment is telling its residents that mold, roaches, ventilation failures and a reported cluster of deaths are their problem – and that...
Opinion: The Big Man, The Buried Record, And the Case for Freeing Kevin Epps
A documented public-record argument for deeper scrutiny of the prosecution that sent San Francisco filmmaker and editor Kevin Epps to prison. There are moments when history does not knock politely. It kicks the door open. Kevin Epps is not just a criminal defendant with a file number. He is a San Francisco filmmaker and journalist whose work has long centered Black life in the city, and he now serves as executive editor of the San Francisco Bay View.
The Breaking Point: Behind the Walls – The Women, the Jail, the Oversight Failure, and the Politics of Selective Outrage in San Francisco – PART II
By Malik Washington, Investigative Journalist, Destination Freedom Media Group and Contributor, Davis Vanguard Disclosure: I have had prior professional contact with William Palmer through his former radio program, Cafe Revolution on KPOO 89.5 FM, and I attended Sheriff’s Department oversight hearings referenced in this article. I also spent time incarcerated inside San Francisco County Jail facilities, including San Bruno.
The Breaking Point: How San Francisco Reduced Visible Homelessness While Driving
More Poor People Into a Jail System in Crisis – PART I By Malik Washington, Investigative Journalist, Destination Freedom Media Group and Contributor, Davis Vanguard San Francisco wants credit for reducing visible homelessness.
District 10 Didn’t Come for a Performance. It Came Looking for Accountability
Right to left: D.J. Brookter, Dexter Hall, Jessica Pessecow, Theo Ellington, Shawn Richards, J.R. Eppler, Pearci “PJ” Bastiany III, Mike “Trouble” Lin, and Dr. Leroy E.
When Representation Disappears: Plaza East, Public Housing, And The Fight For Democratic Accountability
By Malik Washington, Investigative Journalist, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard “A community can survive broken plumbing longer than it can survive broken democracy.” For years, residents of Plaza East Apartments have documented mold creeping across bedroom walls, rats moving through hallways, sewage backing into living spaces, broken appliances left unrepaired, and buildings slowly falling apart in the heart of San Francisco’s historic Fillmore District.
Governor Gavin Newsom, Bring Kevin Epps Home: Why California’s Clemency Power Exists
Photo Credits: Justice 4 Kevin Epps, Malik Washington & https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-endorses-former-british-government-aide-steve-hilton-california-governors-2026-04-06/ By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard Photo credits: Justice 4 Kevin Epps & Gale Washington – Top: Supporters of Kevin Epps Middle right: Kevin & Nancy Pelosi; bottom left to right: Justice 4 Kevin Epps supporters, Kevin & Lateefah Simon, Kevin & Barbara Lee, and Kevin and Danny...
LOCKED DOORS, OPEN QUESTIONS: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, AND THE CRISIS OF TRUST AT HUNTERS POINT
Photo credit: (background) https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/03/09/navy-begins-hazardous-materials-removal-for-hunters-point-shipyard-demolition-project/ Top left: Dr. Veronica Hunnicutt; top right: Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai; bottom: Dr. Carolyn Scott 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.
The Most Common Piece of Trash in San Francisco May Also Be the Most Ignored
Vince Yuen and Barbara Bella, Refuse Refuse As advocates push to ban plastic cigarette filters, supporters say the fight is about cleaner streets, environmental justice, and stopping pollution before it starts. By Malik Washington and Barbara Bella, Destination Freedom Media Group Every Saturday morning across San Francisco, thousands of residents lace up their shoes, grab buckets and trash pickers, and head into their neighborhoods to clean up a city they love. They pick up fast-food wrappers.
What the Latest Radioactive Finding at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Really Means
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) A New Discovery, an Old Wound, and the Mounting Implications for Health, Redevelopment, Trust, and Environmental Justice in Bayview–Hunters Point By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard There are discoveries that...
The Fire That Binds Us: Ella Hill Hutch and the Work of Staying Together
Ella Hill Hutch Community Center “The questions raised deserve transparency. The children and families served by Ella Hill Hutch deserve continuity. And the Black community deserves a process that does not turn disagreement into destruction.” By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard There are some places in San Francisco that carry more than history. They carry spirit. The Ella Hill Hutch Community Center is one of those places.
When The Record Itself is in Dispute
A mother’s fight in Butte County raises urgent questions about disability access, due process, and whether families can trust the paper trail that shapes their lives. By Malik Washington for Destination Freedom Media Group and The Davis Vanguard. On the eve of a high-stakes court appearance, Jessica Vranich and her supporters were not merely asking for sympathy. They were asking for something more basic, and more essential to the legitimacy of any legal system: a pause.
“We Are Not Disposable”: Black Seniors at King–Garvey Co-op Demand Accountability as Residents Allege Intimidation, Eviction Threats and Abuse of Power
Photo credits: https://www.pexels.com/@gale-sanders-1349874640/downloads/ (question marks) Top Left: Dorothy Ward and Loloa Jackson Bottom row: Mawuli Tugbenyoh, Arieann Harrison, Bilal Mahmood, and Dede Hewitt Residents accuse powerful actors inside historic Black cooperative of weaponizing legal pressure against elders while city officials vow hearings and possible investigations By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO — The room inside the...
Public Money, Private Exclusion: Elder Kevin Williams Says San Francisco’s Black Contractors Are Still Locked Out While Billions Flow through Bayview
Photo credits: Southeastern Treatment Plant – courtesy of SF Water Power Sewer (https://www.sfpuc.gov/construction-contracts/construction-projects/sepconstruction) – top left SF Labor rally – courtesy of Dennis Williams (https://www.instagram.com/p/DOPgv78iXUg/) – bottom left Construction workers courtesy of SF Hyper Local Building Trades Contractors Collective (https://www.sfhlbtcc.com) – bottom right In Bayview Hunters Point, people know the difference between development and extraction.
The Price of Being Poor – Part 8
“The Moment the Room Saw It: Evidence, Exposure, and the Question the City Can No Longer Avoid” A Malik Washington Investigation | Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard The room changed the moment the video was shown. It wasn’t loud. There was no chaos. No one needed to shout. Because once it appeared—once the image settled into view—there was no longer anything to debate. A rat. Inside an apartment. On the interior windowsill. Not outside. Not theoretical. Not buried in a report. Inside.
Turntable is Building More Than Housing in the Bay Area – Part 1
Robynne Jeisman Courtesy of Founder, Robynne Jeisman Under the leadership of Robynne Jeisman, a quiet revolution is taking shape—one rooted in safety, belonging, and the radical insistence that young people deserve more than survival By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard In the Bay Area, the housing crisis is often reduced to numbers. Median rents. Vacancy rates. Encampment counts. Affordable housing shortages.
Black Seniors Targeted for Eviction at Martin Luther King–Marcus Garvey Square Co-Op
Photo Credits: https://opensfhistory.org/opensf/moreNeighborhoodPhotos.php?n=Western_Addition&bn=6 (top row) https://rentbt.com/neighborhood/western-addition/ (bottom left) https://rentbt.com/neighborhood/western-addition/ (bottom center) https://www.facebook.com/groups/1435627060034188/posts/4113178255612375/ (bottom right) Part 1: A Quiet Removal in the Fillmore By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard The more things change, the more things stay the same...
The Price of Being Poor – Part 7
Photo Credits: Bottom: https://www.kqed.org/news/38840/feds-award-30m-to-remake-sf-housing-project Top: https://tyrafennell.wordpress.com/tag/double-rock/ Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Kg077PO80 background Built on Promises, Standing on Questions: What Is Really Happening Inside Alice Griffith Apartments? A Malik Washington Investigation, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard The land was studied. The risks were known. The mitigation was required.
Ruled Suicide, Remembered as Lynching – Hanging Deaths, Official Silence, and the Return of America’s Oldest Terror
Photo Credit: https://www.abhmuseum.org/an-iconic-lynching-in-the-north/ – Hanging of Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp in Marion, Texas. By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group & The Davis Vanguard “This is probably the most well-known photo of a lynching. It was taken by professional photographer in Marion, Lawrence Beitler, who printed and sold hundreds as souvenirs and postcards. The photo inspired the song Strange Fruit.
Proposition A and the Question of Alignment: What San Francisco’s Own Records Say about Its Emergency Water Strategy
Photo credits: https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/earthquakes/san-francisco (top) https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/01/photos-palisades-fire-los-angeles-california/681241/ (bottom) A review of public documents, engineering design, and oversight findings raises key questions about scope, structure, and delivery By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group & The Davis Vanguard San Francisco’s relationship with fire is not abstract.
THE PRICE OF BEING POOR — PART 6: The Legal Reckoning BeginsA Special Investigation
Photo Credits: Top left & middle (Western Addition): https://www.sfpublicpress.org/slow-incomplete-repairs-at-sf-housing-project-frustrate-residents/ Top right and bottom photos (Alice Griffith Apartments): https://missionlocal.org/2025/05/bayviews-alice-griffith-housing-was-built-in-2017-its-already-falling-apart-why/ by Journalist Malik Washington | Destination Freedom Media Group & the Davis Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO — It lasted one hour on Friday, April 10, 2026, but the impact may last much...
Calling Us In: Skywatchers and the Tenderloin’s Beautiful Refusal to Disappear
By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group & The Davis Vanguard A deeply reported community feature on Skywatchers, their mission, ensemble leadership, artistic legacy, and the upcoming A.C.T. presentation Calling Us In: An Invitation to Joy. In a city that too often documents the Tenderloin without ever truly seeing it, the work of Skywatchers demands something different: not observation, but recognition. Not distance, but presence.
76 Months — And What the Courtroom Could Not Hold
At Sentencing, Grief, Love, and Loss Shared the Same Space By Journalist Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard San Francisco Hall of Justice — December 2025 The sentence, when it came, was measured in months: SEVENTY-SIX MONTHS. In California, that translates to approximately six years and four months in state prison.
San Francisco, This Is the Test: Will You Show Up for Kevin Epps — Or Look Away Again?
Photo Credit: Justice4KevinEpps – Left to right: Tobee Akahi Vanderwall, Kevin Epps, Andy Blue, and Tabari Morris By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | Davis Vanguard As April 8 approaches, a city that prides itself on justice is being called to prove it—inside Department 13, where silence will speak just as loudly as any sentence. SAN FRANCISCO — Courtrooms do not simply deliver sentences.
“WHAT IS ‘GREEN’ ABOUT HUNTERS POINT?”
San Francisco documented environmental racism. The State built tools to measure it. Now, as redevelopment accelerates in Hunters Point, a new map raises a deeper question: what happens when the data no longer reflects the lived reality? I want to be clear here. I don’t think there are very many people in Bayview–Hunters Point who are aware how detrimental this newly proposed 5.0 map could be.
The Price of Being Poor – Part 5
The Edge – Erris Edgerly Good morning. I ask our followers to take the time to watch this video (link above), and if you have a friend or family member that lives in Public Housing and they have a story of ignored habitability issues….Please let me know. Thank you, Erris Edgerly (founder of Brothers for Change) for having me on the show.
The Price of Being Poor — Part 4: The People Fight Back
Photo credit: Kenisha Roach A Special Investigation by Journalist Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group & the Davis Vanguard The Bayview-Hunters Point Coordinating Council has been working hard behind the scenes to create a grassroots, community-led movement to confront corporate slumlords, like Related Affordable and John Stewart Company.
“They Have the Money. We Have the People.”
Photo credit: Malik Washington At a packed Working Families Party event in San Francisco’s Mission District, candidates and organizers made one thing unmistakably clear: the fight for the city’s future is a fight over power—and the people are organizing to win it.
Whispers of Waste: At India Basin, Art, Ancestry, and Community Power Rise Together
Photo credit: @sliceofdill By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO — Bayview-Hunters Point did not gather last Saturday merely for recreation. It gathered for recognition, for memory and for power. Under a clear sky at India Basin Waterfront Park, the community came together for “RecFest,” a celebration that, on its surface, looked like joy. Children spun Double Dutch ropes in rhythmic harmony. Young MCs took the mic with unfiltered confidence.
The Price of Being Poor — Part 3: Silence Is a Choice
The Case Against City Attorney David Chiu and Mayor Daniel Lurie A Special Investigation by Journalist Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group & The Davis Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO — Let me be direct. This is not a matter of policy disagreement. This is a matter of enforceable law, documented violations, and the deliberate non-use of government authority in the face of ongoing harm. Two men possess the legal authority to prevent the suffering documented in Parts 1 and 2 of this series.
Building Affordability In An Unaffordable City: Inside San Francisco’s Housing Reality
Even as thousands of units rise across redevelopment zones, a widening gap between income and cost continues to lock out the very residents these programs were meant to serve By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO — HUNTERS POINT SHIPYARD There are meetings where numbers get presented. And then there are meetings where history shows up—quietly, persistently—demanding to be accounted for.
Closed Door Legal – How San Francisco Gives Millions to a Nonprofit That Refuses to Serve the Black Community It Claims to Represent
The Big 5: Julia Commer; Ruth Williams, Rosie Lee Williams, Eloise Westbrook, and Oceola Washington Part II of The Price of Being Poor Investigation By Journalist Malik Washington | Destination Freedom Media Group & The Davis Vanguard “These women brought back 40 million dollars from Washington DC. It is incorrectly reported as $35 million. In any event, that is an incredible amount of money for the early 1970’s on economies of scale.
Special Investigative Report: The Price of Being Poor
How San Francisco Rewards Corporate Landlords Who Neglect Its Most Vulnerable Residents with Multi-Million Dollar Contracts They called it affordable housing. Tenants describe something closer to abandonment: sewage backups, boarded windows, unsafe buildings, and a system that punishes those who complain. After months of reporting, this investigation asks why City Hall continues rewarding the very companies accused of failing San Francisco’s most vulnerable residents.
In the Sunset’s Living Room: Five Candidates, One Divided Coastline, and the Fight for District 4
Great Highway, Upzoning, and Public Safety dominate a high-stakes debate on San Francisco’s west side By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard On a fog-lined evening inside the United Irish Cultural Center, the political future of San Francisco’s west side unfolded before a packed room of Sunset District residents.
When Statistics and Street Reality Collide
San Francisco — March 2026 THE MILESTONE San Francisco closed out 2025 with 28 homicides — the lowest total recorded since 1954. City officials reported a 20% reduction in homicides and declines across major crime categories. Independent analysis confirmed that 2025 marked historic lows not only in San Francisco, but across California’s largest cities. The data is publicly verifiable through the SFPD Crime Dashboard and the City’s open data portal. The milestone matters.
Frisco’s Got Talent: A Stage in the Fillmore, A Platform Rooted in Legacy
By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard Frisco’s Got Talent is more than a competition. It is a cultural intervention. Beginning March 4 and continuing March 11, March 18, and March 25, auditions will take place at the San Francisco African American Art & Culture Complex in the Fillmore District — a location that carries historical and cultural weight.
Fund the Oversight — Or Answer the Question: Part 2 of San Francisco’s 23-Year Reckoning - Davis Vanguard
Photo Credits: Top left: https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/bayview-hunters.html Top right: https://www.canwelive.org/environmental-justice Bottom 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/ By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard In Part One...
“They Knew”: San Francisco’s 23-Year Reckoning With Environmental Racism in Bayview–Hunters Point - Davis Vanguard
Photo Credit: Hunters Point Shipyard Art Gallery, 451 Galvez, San Francisco, California 94124 How environmental racism was formally acknowledged — and why oversight now matters more than ever A MALIK WASHINGTON INVESTIGATION for Destination Freedom Media Group and the Davis Vanguard – Part 1 of 2 EDITOR’S NOTE This 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...
When the Courtroom Becomes the Barrier
Photo credit: Marc Fishman & Pixabay.com (courtroom photo) How Marc Fishman’s Fight Exposes a Quiet Civil Rights Crisis Inside New York’s Justice System By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group & The Davis Vanguard In earlier reporting, I documented how New York State can formally identify police officers with patterns of misconduct—then allow prosecutions tied to those officers to continue untouched.
“They Wouldn’t Stop Shooting Us”
What Happened to the Women of Chowchilla Demands More Than Silence By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group / The Davis Vanguard Destination Freedom Media Group and the Davis Vanguard want our sisters behind the walls at Chowchilla and beyond to know that: YOU MATTER TO US! ❤️ There are moments when the state’s power is no longer abstract—when it shows up not as policy or procedure, but as chemical spray, smoke, restraints, and fear. August 2, 2024, was one of those moments.
Reparations on Trial
Photo credits: Newly unearthed trove of photographs shows the Fillmore’s devastation in stunning detail https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/29/san-francisco-fillmore-destruction-documented/ (top left) The Rise & Fall of the “Harlem of the West” https://bishopsf.org/blog/remembering-the-harlem-of-the-west (top right and bottom) Part 1: San Francisco’s Debt, America’s Fear, and the Lie of “Societal Discrimination” By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group / The Davis Vanguard San...
In Bayview, the Questions Were Bigger Than the Answers: A Gubernatorial Debate Inside a Community That Knows the Cost of Being Ignored
By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group / The Davis Vanguard The Ruth Williams Opera House did not need to be reminded where it stands. It stands in Bayview-Hunters Point—one of San Francisco’s oldest Black neighborhoods, a community that has buried generations while carrying the unhealed legacy of radiation, heavy metals, and government neglect left behind by the Hunters Point Shipyard.
In Memory of Jayda Mabrey - A City Pauses. A Community Remembers. A Responsibility Remains.
By Malik Washington, The Davis Vanguard / Destination Freedom Media Group There are moments when a city must slow down—when words must do more than inform, and instead learn how to listen. To grief. To truth. To the quiet courage left behind when a young life is taken too soon. Jayda Mabrey was a teenager. She was a daughter. She was a young soul who chose love over silence. On a Friday evening in late January, gunfire broke the routine calm of early evening in San Francisco’s Fillmore District.
Open Letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta: When Slumlords Are Rewarded and Tenants Are Abandoned
Attorney General Rob Bonta in San Francisco, 2021 By Journalist Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group and the Davis Vanguard Attorney General Rob Bonta, This is not a sudden crisis. It is a documented one.
A Teenager’s Journey into Breathwork and Service
Pictured here is the Dynamic Duo of Ria Tandon and her father, Dev. Together, they have edified many lives in the Tenderloin and beyond with their Breathwork experience. By Ria Tandon Introduced and contextualized by Journalist Malik Washington When Healing Arrives Through Breath By Journalist Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard For the past two weekends, our nation has witnessed the deaths of human beings at the hands of agents employed by our government.
When the State Turns Its Guns on the People
Photo credit: https://abc7ny.com/post/shooting-is-reported-minneapolis-where-feds-are-conducting-immigration-crackdown/18367784/ Posse Comitatus, ICE, and the Criminalization of Free Speech in Minnesota By Malik Washington, Destination Freedom Media Group | The Davis Vanguard What is unfolding in Minnesota is not immigration enforcement. It is not public safety. It is not law and order.
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