*In 2010, a local paper estimated that the black population in San Francisco would eventually fall to 3.9 percent of the city’s total. This statistic caught the eye of Bayview artist Ron Moultrie Saunders and a group of his fellow artists. Ron teamed up with Nancy Cato, Rodney Ewing, Sirron Norris, and William Rhodes to form the 3.9 Art Collective. Their very existence is an act of resistance against the forces causing the African American population to dwindle. In 2025, the population of Black or African American people living in San Francisco is 5.09% (42,547 out of a total population of 768K)
