Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

The Greed of San Francisco’s Hyper-Gentrifying Classes
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
13 Apr 2021
🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · The Greed of San Francisco’s Hyper-Gentrifying Classes

The collusion of high-paid tech workers and real estate interests has created a political force that advocates privatization, deregulation and gentrification as a public good, said Jemma DeCristo, a Black trans anarchist organizer. DeCristo maintains the gentrifiers’ political slogan ought to be, “White Supremacy In My Back Yard.” Blacks make up no more than 5 percent of San Francisco’s population, and Black push-out has become endemic in the Bay Area.

gentrification

Related Podcasts

Carmella Charrington
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Deed Theft and the Loss of Black Property
24 April 2026
Evangeline of the People’s Coalition to Stop Deed Theft, a grassroots New York City organiz
Palm Springs Survivors
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Descendants and Survivors of the Displaced Palm Springs Black Community Demand Restitution
22 December 2023
The Black families of Palm Springs' Section 14 were forcibly displaced from their community when city officials decided to develop the area fo
Black Agenda Radio August 17, 2023
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio August 17, 2023
18 August 2023
In this week’s segment we discuss the effort to put Cop City on the ballot in Atlanta, and also the fight to make the federal government accountabl

More Stories


  • How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth
    Kelly Lytle Hernandez
    How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth
    10 Apr 2019
    Mass Black incarceration didn’t just happen; it was engineered at the highest levels of US government.
  • West Being Eclipsed By Hi-Tech East
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    West Being Eclipsed By Hi-Tech East
    09 Apr 2019
    Although Russiagate has fizzled, US imperialism has entered a new level of instability, unable to compete with the rising powers of the East and facing a crisis of legitimacy at home, said 
  • Black Agenda Radio, Week of April 10, 2019
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio, Week of April 10, 2019
    09 Apr 2019
    Anthony Monteiro: US cannot compete with China; Eternity Martis: Black Canadians receive inferior medical care; Anne Moraa: Comics speak the peoples la
  • prison state
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    California Strips Inmates of Legal Tools
    09 Apr 2019
    Stevie Stevenson, serving a long term in the California prison system says the state is putting law books out of reach of the incarcerated population.
  • comics an effecrive educational tool
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Comics An Effective Tool for African Girls’ Empowerment
    09 Apr 2019
    For the past five years, Kenyan artist and intellectual Anne Moraa has helped develop comic books and magazines aimed at empowering young girls.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us