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Jim Crow Returns: New State Laws Could Take Obama Out This Fall

Meet the California Lawmakers Who Are Enabling the Marijuana War

Losing efforts sometimes score wins. Medical marijuana scored such a moral victory late Wednesday, when 163 members of Congress voted in favor of not allowing federal dollars to be spent on busting pot growers, distributors, and dispensaries in states with medical cannabis laws.The brainchild o ... More >>

The Dispossessed: Bayview Homeowners Fight Foreclosures

Losing efforts sometimes score wins. Medical marijuana scored such a moral victory late Wednesday, when 163 members of Congress voted in favor of not allowing federal dollars to be spent on busting pot growers, distributors, and dispensaries in states with medical cannabis laws.The brainchild o ... More >>

Occupy Dream: Clergy Hope MLK Rally Will Draw Attention to String of Homicides of Black Men

Members of the African-American community already had big plans to hold its "Occupy Dream" rally today to recognize the April 4, 1968, assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. But sadly, the group has yet another more reason to draw attention to their cause: The recent string of gun violence among Sa ... More >>

Outmigration: Only District 6 Retains Its Black Population

Members of the African-American community already had big plans to hold its "Occupy Dream" rally today to recognize the April 4, 1968, assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. But sadly, the group has yet another more reason to draw attention to their cause: The recent string of gun violence among Sa ... More >>

Why Community Organizers Matter

Members of the African-American community already had big plans to hold its "Occupy Dream" rally today to recognize the April 4, 1968, assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. But sadly, the group has yet another more reason to draw attention to their cause: The recent string of gun violence among Sa ... More >>

NAACP Calls U.S. Airways Racist for Kicking Man with Saggy Pants Off Plane

They must have toured by bus​U.S. Airways' decision to kick a football player wearing sagging pants off one of its planes in San Francisco is provoking the ire of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which says that the move was racist.Deshon Marman, a black college foot ... More >>

FAIR-y Tales

They must have toured by bus​U.S. Airways' decision to kick a football player wearing sagging pants off one of its planes in San Francisco is provoking the ire of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which says that the move was racist.Deshon Marman, a black college foot ... More >>

Exploring the Jewish influence on black American music

They must have toured by bus​U.S. Airways' decision to kick a football player wearing sagging pants off one of its planes in San Francisco is provoking the ire of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which says that the move was racist.Deshon Marman, a black college foot ... More >>

Do Black Voters Want to Legalize Marijuana?

​As the campaigns for and against California's marijuana-legalizing Proposition 19 heat up, a big question mark still hangs over a vital factor in the initiative's fate: How popular is it among minorities, and specifically among black voters?Notes prince-among-pollsters Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEi ... More >>

Whitewash: Disney's The Princess and the Frog can't seem to escape the ghetto

​As the campaigns for and against California's marijuana-legalizing Proposition 19 heat up, a big question mark still hangs over a vital factor in the initiative's fate: How popular is it among minorities, and specifically among black voters?Notes prince-among-pollsters Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEi ... More >>

JROTC under fire in S.F. schools

​As the campaigns for and against California's marijuana-legalizing Proposition 19 heat up, a big question mark still hangs over a vital factor in the initiative's fate: How popular is it among minorities, and specifically among black voters?Notes prince-among-pollsters Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEi ... More >>

Zion-I perform at NAACP Anniversary Celebration

EKAphotographyZion-I crew The NAACP turns 100 this year, and youth outreach is on their mind. Perhaps inspired by Barack Obama's historic Presidential campaign--and the large number of young voters who participated in the process--they've joined forces with a new activist group, "Citizen Hope," and ... More >>

Buzz Kill

The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

Janet takes control: Ms. Nasty is back in PVC chic

The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

Local NAACP Head Accuses Berkeley Cops of Wanting to "Kill Every African-American That They Can."

The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

Jill Scott's Sexual Healing

The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

Huffington's in a Huff

The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

About a Boi

OutKast's Depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the Old South

Moonstruck

The Rev. Moon has opened an unexpected front in his struggle to win a broader audience for his messianic pretensions: African-American churches and their preachers

Yo Soy Centroamericano

Why vote Kerry? Exhibit No. 1: George W. Bush has shamelessly hired the dangerous figures behind the Iran-Contra Affair into senior diplomatic posts.

Not Your Mother's Peace Movement

Major anti-war groups change strategy, hoping to win over mainstream voters the Bush administration can't ignore

SOUL Trainers

A nonprofit school known by the acronym SOUL is working to undermine The System with The System's own money. But does SOUL teach anti-capitalist subversion -- or how to sell out?

House of Race Cards

Willie Brown to S.F.: You're racist. Racist racist racist racist racist racist racist. Biased, too.

A Matter of Trusts

A four-year fight between the YWCA and a church group over who owns a Japantown building is now heading to court

South to the Future

Fox to Air Presidential Pageant 2000

SF Weekly's Wammies '98

Fox to Air Presidential Pageant 2000

Dream Candidate

Front-running mayoral candidate Jerry Brown offers Oakland vague, pretty solutions to its real, ugly problems

Black Beauty

Front-running mayoral candidate Jerry Brown offers Oakland vague, pretty solutions to its real, ugly problems

White on White

As Prop. 209 kicks in, whiteness studies draws attention to UC Berkeley

Chalk Fight

Teachers' union grand dame Joan Marie Shelley is forced into the campaign of her career by a formerly loyal lieutenant

Bus to Nowhere

Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help

School Work Needing Supervision

Superintendent Rojas says he was just trying to avoid red tape; a lawsuit claims he willfully ignored city law

Quota Quandary

As Proposition 209 seeks an end to affirmative action by state institutions, minority groups are conflicted

Cleaning Slates

Superintendent Bill Rojas is pushing a simple solution for troubled schools: Get rid of everybody.

Confederacy of Dunces

A Time to Kill Directed by Joel Schumacher. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, and Kevin Spacey.

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.