Subject: Van Jones

• Bryant Terry Brings Vegan Soul Kitchen to MoAD

  EKAphotographySoul Recipe: Bryant TerryThere was a packed house last night for eco-chef Bryant Terry's official book launch for Vegan Soul Kitchen (Da Capo) at the Museum of the African Diaspora. The book, which contains over 150 recipes for "fresh, healthy, and creative African-American cuisine" (example: Roasted Red Potato Salad with Parsley-Pine Nut Pesto -yum!), may be the first of its kind, and has garnered endorsements from filmmaker Mario Van Peebles, healthy food guru John Robbins, and g

  March 4, 2009

• Pocketbook Environmentalism

  Activist Van Jones shows that being green can appeal to your pocketbook as well as your conscience.

  December 3, 2008

• Toothless Wonder

  Why S.F.'s police watchdog agency has never been effective - and why Prop. H won't change that

  November 12, 2003

• Demonstrating Exploitation

  A Latino activist group has gained largely positive media coverage for organizing student walkouts to protest government social policies. But how admirable is it, really, to endanger young children for political purposes?

  January 6, 1999

• Cothran

  December 16, 1998

• Hip Hop Responds to Van Jones Drama

  EKAphotographyAli Chagi-Starr, Van Jones (c), and Ron Dellums at Silence the Violence Day, 2007​ By now, everyone and they mama has heard that controversial green jobs adviser Van Jones has been forced to resign from his white house job. There are many differing takes on the subject, from ultra-rightwing commentators like Glenn Beck and his Fox News cohorts, to the liberal lefties over at HuffPo and Alternet. Whatever your take on Jones as an individual and green jobs in general, there's

  September 9, 2009

• It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

  What was the F'd up part of the bridge again?​This was a week for openings. The bridge opened, a sex club opened in one of the city's least sexy locales, and, speaking of openness and sexiness, an elephantine state Assemblyman was remarkably frank with his astoundingly filthy claims of sexual conquests of women who had pending government business before his legislative boards. Phew! It's time for a weekend. But first, a news quiz. 1. Xiyu Li is: A. The crewman who died after falling off a San

  September 11, 2009

• Versus: Who's Crazier -- Birthers or Truthers?

  Natural born American​This summer, anti-Obama protesters have showed up at the president's town-hall addresses on health-care reform with signs pushing the "birther" conspiracy theory, which asserts that Obama's presidency is illegitimate since he was born abroad. Last weekend, White House "green-jobs czar" and veteran Bay Area activist Van Jones was forced out of the Obama Administration after conservatives raised questions about his signing a 2004 letter suggesting that Bush knew about and

  September 11, 2009