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Racial Issues

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2012

    Das Racist Is No More; Long Live Das Racist

    Yesterday, we made loud wailing noises, followed by a series of frantic sobs, when we heard that Das Racist was breaking up. Why so sad? Well, put simply, there's never been anything quite like Das Racist before. And it's doubtful that anyone coming after will have quite the same delicious combinati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2012

    Bay Area Poverty Is Growing Faster in Suburbia Than in Urban Areas

    Suburban poverty is a relatively new phenomenon. For the past 60 or so years, the suburbs have traditionally represented the American Dream. Work hard, play by the rules, and it'll all be yours-- the crisp lawn, white fence, two-car garage, little league practice, backyard tree-house, etc -- and you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2012

    Nancy Pelosi Prefers Her Chicken To Be Kentucky Fried

    Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi put in her two cents on the Chick-fil-A controversy where the fast-food chain's president admitted the company gives millions of dollars to anti-gay marriage.On Friday, the San Francisco democrat tweeted the following:"For the record, I prefer Kentucky Fried Chicken. #Chic ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 13, 2012

    "Choose Paint! Choose Abstraction!": MoAD's Alluring Exhibit

    Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi put in her two cents on the Chick-fil-A controversy where the fast-food chain's president admitted the company gives millions of dollars to anti-gay marriage.On Friday, the San Francisco democrat tweeted the following:"For the record, I prefer Kentucky Fried Chicken. #Chic ... More >>

  • News

    June 6, 2012

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

    Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi put in her two cents on the Chick-fil-A controversy where the fast-food chain's president admitted the company gives millions of dollars to anti-gay marriage.On Friday, the San Francisco democrat tweeted the following:"For the record, I prefer Kentucky Fried Chicken. #Chic ... More >>

  • News

    June 6, 2012

    Bordering on Revolution: America's War on Mexicans Has Gone Too Far

    Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi put in her two cents on the Chick-fil-A controversy where the fast-food chain's president admitted the company gives millions of dollars to anti-gay marriage.On Friday, the San Francisco democrat tweeted the following:"For the record, I prefer Kentucky Fried Chicken. #Chic ... More >>

  • News

    May 2, 2012

    The Dispossessed: Bayview Homeowners Fight Foreclosures

    Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi put in her two cents on the Chick-fil-A controversy where the fast-food chain's president admitted the company gives millions of dollars to anti-gay marriage.On Friday, the San Francisco democrat tweeted the following:"For the record, I prefer Kentucky Fried Chicken. #Chic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    Top 5 Racist Food Faux Pas

    ​By now, you've probably heard about Ben & Jerry's limited-release ice cream flavor, "Taste the Lin-Sanity," which included a lychee swirl and Fortune Cookies. You know, because he's Asian. Because, you know, if he was African-American, Ben and Jerry woulda thought it was a good idea to fill i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    School Officials Apologize Over Racist Comic in Newsletter

    A Pleasant Hill school secretary reminded us today why it is so very important to proofread before hitting send. The substitute secretary accidentally sent out this racist cartoon below along with the school newsletter, somehow mistaking the offensive image for a harmless comic. Of course, it hasn't ... More >>

  • News

    November 30, 2011

    Hate Expectations: Police and Prosecutors Are Quick to Claim the Presence of Racism — but Juries Are Not So Sure

    A Pleasant Hill school secretary reminded us today why it is so very important to proofread before hitting send. The substitute secretary accidentally sent out this racist cartoon below along with the school newsletter, somehow mistaking the offensive image for a harmless comic. Of course, it hasn't ... More >>

  • News

    August 31, 2011

    Lawyer Suing San Francisco for Racial Discrimination May Need a Lawyer Himself

    A Pleasant Hill school secretary reminded us today why it is so very important to proofread before hitting send. The substitute secretary accidentally sent out this racist cartoon below along with the school newsletter, somehow mistaking the offensive image for a harmless comic. Of course, it hasn't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Jewish Students Sue UC Berkeley for Allowing "Violent Anti-Semitic Attacks"

    Apartheid Week on the UC Berkeley Campus, 2009​Two Jewish UC Berkeley students are suing the school, claiming that the UC Berkeley administration failed to halt "violent anti-Semitic attacks and a hostile environment" created by two pro-Palestinian groups on campus. Plaintiff Jessica Felber, who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Win Tickets to See Das Racist Friday at Mezzanine

    Das Racist could be your Friday night date.​ Das Racist is bringing its multiculti mischief-hop to Mezzanine this Friday. Don't you want to go? Yes, you do. Hit the jump for a chance to win a pair of tickets.

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Accused White Supremacists Charged with Beating Mexicans in S.F.

    Welcome to San Francisco, gentlemen​Three alleged white supremacists appeared in a San Francisco courtroom this morning to answer to charges of attacking two Mexican nationals -- kicking one unconscious while yelling "White power."The accused attackers in this Tenderloin hate crime case -- includi ... More >>

  • Music

    February 2, 2011

    Das Racist: Show Preview

    Welcome to San Francisco, gentlemen​Three alleged white supremacists appeared in a San Francisco courtroom this morning to answer to charges of attacking two Mexican nationals -- kicking one unconscious while yelling "White power."The accused attackers in this Tenderloin hate crime case -- includi ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    FAIR-y Tales

    Welcome to San Francisco, gentlemen​Three alleged white supremacists appeared in a San Francisco courtroom this morning to answer to charges of attacking two Mexican nationals -- kicking one unconscious while yelling "White power."The accused attackers in this Tenderloin hate crime case -- includi ... More >>

  • Articles

    May 5, 2010

    A Report from Juarez, the Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

    Welcome to San Francisco, gentlemen​Three alleged white supremacists appeared in a San Francisco courtroom this morning to answer to charges of attacking two Mexican nationals -- kicking one unconscious while yelling "White power."The accused attackers in this Tenderloin hate crime case -- includi ... More >>

  • News

    May 5, 2010

    Amongst Us

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror becomes Arizona policy, thanks to state Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

  • Calendar

    May 5, 2010

    Everyone's a Comedian

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror becomes Arizona policy, thanks to state Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    St. Mary's Music Instructor Disciplined for Racial Epithet

    St. Mary's music instructor Louis Lebherz was reprimanded Monday for directing a student to perform a song with racial epithets during a voice class last month. Associated Press reports that "[a]n African American student complained after Lebherz had a student sing the original version of the show ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Partial Settlement in Carpenters' Racial Discrimination Case

    Bob the Builder never had to call Bob the Lawyer...​Eight of the 28 plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against companies at a Bayview construction site for alleged discrimination and labor law violations -- including running segregated work crews, turning away black workers in favor of Latinos, and ext ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2009

    Race to Fame

    W. Kamau Bell has built a career on examining the messy intersections of race and class in a supposedly postracial world.

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2009

    Hark! A Wise Man

    W. Kamau Bell has built a career on examining the messy intersections of race and class in a supposedly postracial world.

  • News

    December 31, 2008

    2008: The Year S.F. Grew Up

    W. Kamau Bell has built a career on examining the messy intersections of race and class in a supposedly postracial world.

  • Music

    December 17, 2008

    Black electronic acts break beats and assumptions

    W. Kamau Bell has built a career on examining the messy intersections of race and class in a supposedly postracial world.

  • Culture

    November 19, 2008

    The W. Kamau Bell Curve

    W. Kamau Bell has built a career on examining the messy intersections of race and class in a supposedly postracial world.

  • News

    November 12, 2008

    Change Hasn't Come to S.F.

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

  • News

    October 8, 2008

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

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

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2008

    Mad As A Wet Haine

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

  • Calendar

    June 11, 2008

    Something Bad Happened

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

  • Calendar

    June 4, 2008

    Minority Report

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

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2008

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

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

  • News

    March 26, 2008

    Building Racism

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

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2007

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

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

  • Calendar

    August 29, 2007

    Black Power (Pop)

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

  • News

    August 8, 2007

    Homer Race

    With Barry Bonds closing in on baseball's home run record, black-and-orange trumps black-and-white

  • News

    February 21, 2007

    Earls Last Laugh

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

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    Acts of Commission

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

  • News

    September 10, 2003

    Connerly's Con

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

  • News

    July 16, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of July 16, 2003

  • Music

    September 4, 2002

    Stir It Up

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

  • News

    May 1, 2002

    House of Race Cards

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

  • News

    May 1, 2002

    A Black and White Issue

    A lawsuit alleging racism at Amtrak's Oakland yard has made it to the Supreme Court -- and could affect discrimination cases nationwide

  • Calendar

    February 20, 2002

    The Pen Is Mightier

    Two plays from outspoken African-American playwright August Wilson

  • Calendar

    August 1, 2001

    Me, Myself, and I

    AfroSolo Arts Festival

  • Culture

    May 23, 2001

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

    An exuberant production explores the facts and fictions of gay black men

  • News

    November 1, 2000

    Down on Brown

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

  • Film

    October 18, 2000

    The Negro Problem

    Spike Lee's new racial satire starts out strong, but ends up wasting ammunition

  • Film

    August 12, 1998

    Fantasy Island

    Spike Lee's new racial satire starts out strong, but ends up wasting ammunition

  • Culture

    November 8, 1995

    Aisle Seat

    Spike Lee's new racial satire starts out strong, but ends up wasting ammunition

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