Bayview-Hunters Point

And it powered, it sent gas without regulation, without meters, without, again, without safety standards on the pipes.

to a power plant that was down in Hunters Point, which is a neighborhood in the south end of the city.

Candlestick Park is in Hunters Point.

And the asthma rate in Hunters Point was crazy.

It was out of the world.

And the people down there knew that it was coming from the power plant.

The South is not half as bad as San Francisco.

In 1964, James Baldwin and a KQED camera crew rode through neighborhoods that had majority Black populations at the time, Hunters Point, Western Edition, and the Fillmore.

The homes in these areas supported thriving cultural centers, but they were older and showed decades of neglect.

The city called these areas slums.

But, but, uh, one of the things, again, that, that really concerns me, uh, i- is that, you know, uh, a, a lot of these data centers, a- and I know there's been some, uh, concern in Sonoma County, Mendocino County, Humboldt County, et cetera, you know, of these data centers.

I know that right now, for instance, uh, in San Francisco, they're looking at Hunters Point and, and, uh, you know, the Mission.

Uh, in Oakland, you know, they're dealing with that issue.

What do you think people need to do? You know, 'cause sooner or later, that's gonna be a massive struggle, you know, in, in the North Bay.

They actually went under full consent decree.

And one of the areas that gave birth to addressing this consent decree was having a school similar to Lowell at that point, but in Bayview Hunters Point.

And so for the first probably five, six years, Yeah, it was comparable to Lowell and leadership, you know, the kind of innovative ways that they were able to create an extraordinary school community.

So I was rocking there for the first few years.

Uh, I talk about it in my first book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, and it started very early.

My mother was a teen parent, and we lived in the projects in Hunters Point in San Francisco Bay Area.

Um, her desire to have a better education for us meant she did her own form of busing, [laughs] uh, and sent us from our community, inner city community, largely African American and Samoan, and send us to, um, a school that was in the Richmond district, which was a place where my grandparents had been able to purchase a home.

So they were one of the few African American families out there, so the whi- the school was predominantly white.

Like to have that when the Mets return home on May the 5th.

Ballpark here at Candlestick in San Francisco is located just near Hunters Point.

And as we look down the right field line, see some big aircraft carriers that are over in the shipyard.

And it's one of those kind of days here in San Francisco that they write songs about.

Um, n- at least not seeing the miraculous thing that I thought I would see, that I expected to see.

And then after a year there, Francis and I really wanted to be planting churches and that ministry was kind of going a bit of a different direction into a more like homeless ministry and, um, you know, taking care of, of needs like that and, and it was well established and we wanted to go to another area in San Francisco called Hunters Point Bayview, which is at the time, and it's changed a lot since then even in the last 10, 15 years, but, um, at the time it was ... that's where the gangs were, that's where the gang violence was, where the low income housing and, um, yeah, but down by the old ship docks.

And, and we would meet every morning in this building and we would pray like, "What are we supposed to do today? What, like what should we do today?" And usually the answer was we should go walk out on the streets and go to the low income housing and talk to people and try to meet people and see how we can help people.

I mean, it was literally that simple.

Authorities say they're still investigating why the woman shot and killed 47-year-old Ulysses Davis at the theater early Saturday morning.

Davis grew up in the city's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.

This is heartbreaking and such a senseless crime that occurred here.

We are talking about a victim, Mr. Davis, who was the father of six.