Racial Issues

The Dispossessed: Bayview Homeowners Fight Foreclosures

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

So Many Things

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 >>

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 >>

Amongst Us

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

Everyone's a Comedian

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

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 >>

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 >>

Race to Fame

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

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.

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.

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.

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

The W. Kamau Bell Curve

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Change Hasn't Come to S.F.

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

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

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

Mad As A Wet Haine

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

Something Bad Happened

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

Minority Report

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

Q&A with Medicine for Melancholy Director Barry Jenkins

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

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

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

Building Racism

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

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

Black Power (Pop)

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

Homer Race

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

Racism in SF's Jazz Scene?

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

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.

Acts of Commission

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

Connerly's Con

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

Letters to the Editor

Week of July 16, 2003

Stir It Up

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

House of Race Cards

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

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

The Pen Is Mightier

Two plays from outspoken African-American playwright August Wilson

Me, Myself, and I

AfroSolo Arts Festival

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

Down on Brown

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

The Negro Problem

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

Fantasy Island

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

Slap Shots

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

Aisle Seat

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

Jazzoetry

The return of the legendary Last Poets