Subject:

Black Firefighters Association

  • News

    May 2, 2007

    Where There's Smoke

    Yet more allegations of racism and mismanagement reveal smoldering tensions within the Fire Department

  • News

    April 3, 1996

    The Fire Next Time

    As a civil rights advocate, Bob Demmons called in the federal government to end racism in the Fire Department. Now that he's chief, he has to remove federal control and prove that firefighters can manage race relations on their own.

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