Subject: Racial Issues

• Racism in SF's Jazz Scene?

  June 4, 2007

• Michael Chabon Endorses Obama B/C He's Black: The Melanin Argument

  November 13, 2007

• It was the best of metaphors, it was the worst of metaphors: what we can learn from “1858 Black Exodus Commemoration Week”

  April 15, 2008

• Slap Shots

  March 6, 1996

• 2008: The Year S.F. Grew Up

  December 31, 2008

• Black electronic acts break beats and assumptions

  December 17, 2008

• Also Playing

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  November 26, 2008

• The W. Kamau Bell Curve

  November 19, 2008

• Change Hasn't Come to S.F.

  Blacks should look to Washington and not to City Hall for hope.

  November 12, 2008

• Will black neighborhoods in S.F. support the gay marriage ban — again?

  October 8, 2008

• Paris

  Acid Reflex (Guerilla Funk)

  September 10, 2008

• Something Bad Happened

  June 11, 2008

• Minority Report

  June 4, 2008

• Q&A with Medicine for Melancholy Director Barry Jenkins

  Local film director gives this town a dose of its own Medicine.

  April 23, 2008

• Building Racism

  Segregation and racism are used to pit black and Latino carpenters against each other at a low-income-housing site

  March 26, 2008

• Homer Race

  August 8, 2007

• Earl�s Last Laugh

  Exiled in retirement after Fajitagate, ex�Police Chief Earl Sanders has re-emerged with a fresh account of the infamous Zebra murders. And his critics are on the warpath.

  February 21, 2007

• Suffer the Little Muslims

  A look at the appalling discrimination against Middle Eastern students countenanced by Bay Area public schools

  August 17, 2005

• Acts of Commission

  The Human Rights Commission finds a Castro bar discriminatory. But the commission's investigation has its own bias problem.

  May 18, 2005

• Geisha Fixation

  Two seemingly unrelated plays take different approaches to racial concerns

  March 9, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  March 2, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  October 1, 2003

• Connerly's Con

  Ward Connerly says his new anti-racism initiative won't have any real impact on California. Critics beg to differ.

  September 10, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  July 16, 2003

• InvAsian: Growing Up Asian and Female in the United States

  April 30, 2003

• Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority

  January 29, 2003

• Stir It Up

  Thirty years ago Linton Kwesi Johnson helped start the dub poetry movement, which is still inspiring artists today

  September 4, 2002

• House of Race Cards

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

  May 1, 2002

• A Black and White Issue

  May 1, 2002

• The Pen Is Mightier

  February 20, 2002

• Spinning Into Butter

  October 24, 2001

• Southern Discomfort

  October 24, 2001

• Me, Myself, and I

  August 1, 2001

• for colored boys who have considered s-curls when the hot comb was enuf

  May 23, 2001

• Down on Brown

  Many blacks in Bayview/Hunters Point say they feel ignored by the mayor. In this election, they are returning the favor.

  November 1, 2000

• The Negro Problem

  October 18, 2000

• South to the Future

  March 29, 2000

• Shaky Ground

  Environmental activists adopt a new strategy -- playing the race card

  January 5, 2000

• Fantasy Island

  August 12, 1998

• Tense Alliance

  A conversation with the makers of Blacks and Jews, a highlight of the 17th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

  July 16, 1997

• Bus to Nowhere

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

  April 2, 1997

• Quota Quandary

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

  October 30, 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.

  April 3, 1996

• Aisle Seat

  November 8, 1995

• Jazzoetry

  September 20, 1995

• Hark! A Wise Man

  April 22, 2009

• Race to Fame

  May 13, 2009

• The Joke's on You, Dog

  November 14, 2007

• The Man Who Cried Dust

  July 1, 2009

• Black Power (Pop)

  August 29, 2007