The People’s Minister of Information JR recently wrote about White Nights, Black Paradise. Check it out here:
The Jonestown Massacre, where hundreds of Black people were murdered in the jungles of Guyana, is a chapter in Black Bay Area history that is not talked about enough. Many people did not know that the white preacher who was head of the People’s Temple, Jim Jones, had dealings, in the Bay, with the Panthers, Glide Memorial Church, prominent figures in the Bay Area Black press and San Francisco politician Willie Brown.