Racial Issues

Kool A.D. Pushes His Luck and His Boundaries at Elbo Room, 1/9/12

Kool A.D. Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013Elbo RoomBetter than: Never seeing anyone from Das Racist ever again.It's 12:30 a.m., and Kool A.D. is perched stage right, casually hanging out, while his DJ spins some records. "Can we get one more bucket of free beer for the green room?" he calls to the bar at the ... More >>

California Tax Commissioner Betty Yee Takes on Google Over "Make Me Asian" App

Board of Equalization Member Betty T. Yee stepped out of her usual not-so-politically charged role as the elected tax commissioner and took on the really politically charged issue of race. Yee, a Chinese American who hails from San Francisco, jumped on the bandwagon blasting Google for several rac ... More >>

Anti-Semitic Elmo Now Spotted at Fisherman's Wharf

Earlier this week, we told you about the not-so-warm-and-fuzzy Elmo who scared the hell out of some local parents after the life-sized muppet arrived at a park hugging kids and shouting racist slurs. Police didn't arrest Elmo, whose real name is Adam Sandler (no relation to the actor), which, of cou ... More >>

"Wuthering Heights": Black Like Me

Local Parents Not Exactly Tickled About Anti-Semitic Elmo Visiting Kids at Parks

Some San Francisco moms and dads are understandably worried about taking little Johnny to the park after hearing the infamous ranting Elmo has reportedly made his way to San Francisco. As the Richmond neighborhood blog notes, a man dressed up in an Elmo costume appeared at Rossi Park over the weeken ... More >>

Friends of Nicki?: Five Black Musicians Who Supported Republicans

You've probably already heard about Nicki Minaj's Mitt Romney-related lyrics, in which she claimed she was going to vote for the Republican presidential candidate. So, did she mean it? Was she being ironic? Is this a publicity stunt? The only thing we know for sure is that the online furor over this ... More >>

Das Racist's Kool A.D. Drops an Ode to the Bay Area

Inkspiration

The Vanguard Foundation's Great Con

SF Weekly Letters

"Undefeated": Fails to Defeat Cliches

Ron Paul Is Crazy. Admit It.

​Congressman Ron Paul grabbed the lion's share of headlines among GOP presidential candidates last week, and not just because he is the latest improbable figure to challenge the inevitable nomination of Mitt Romney.The conservative Weekly Standard ran a rehash by writer James Kirchik of an article ... More >>

Catching Up

All White Meetup.com Group Is Canceled

Welcome to the group​In a world where things aren't so black and white, any group formed exclusively for white people will almost certainly not last. Which is why we weren't too surprised when we woke up this morning to find that the controversial Anglo Saxon-only Meetup.com group had disappeared ... More >>

Bayview Liquors, Store Allegedly Extorted by Nation of Islam, Has Seen Plenty of Trouble

Let's drink to that ​News circulated this week about the arrest of a Nation of Islam school dean accused of extorting an employee at Bayview Liquors -- a grocery store owned by Yemenese Muslims on Third Street. According to news reports, police said that Leon Muhammad, dean of the Muhammad Univers ... More >>

Leland Yee Fans Support Boycott of Rush Limbaugh

Yummy pizza, yucky politics​Just yesterday State Sen. Leland Yee received racists death threats from someone who presumably supports Rush Limbaugh and probably believes Sarah Palin is a liberal. In the last 24 hours since the death threats were faxed to Yee's offices in Sacramento and San Francisc ... More >>

24 Hour Fitness Hit With Discrimination Suit -- Again

​Three black men, a Latino, an Asian, and a woman walk into work at 24 Hour Fitness, but this isn't any joke. The employees of the San Ramon-based mega gym chain have filed a class-action lawsuit in Alameda Superior Court, alleging they were passed over for promotions to managerial positions.

The rise and fall of an Internet sensation

Stateless: More vaudeville than hip-hop

Also Playing

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Buzz Kill

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

Anonymous 101

The Roots

Rising Down (Def Jam)

Lupe Fiasco hints at music retirement

Bulrusher Conjures Jena 6 Tension in Wilds of Boonville

Liberating Dance

Legends

NCTC would have been wise not to resurrect this flawed script

Where There's Smoke

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

Separate and Unequal

Hidden in the city's special day classes, like the roots of San Francisco's segregation itself, are disproportionately high numbers of African-American and Latino kids.

What's Really Wrong With the Lower Fillmore?

Could it be the activists who claim they're trying to rebuild it?

Badlands Confidential

Is there a race problem at a Castro gay bar -- or a propriety problem in a city supervisor's office?

Louder Than Bombs

For MC Immortal Technique, planting the seeds of revolution ain't nothin' but a g-thang

Levee James

Southern farmers, racism, murder, and sex, with a boost from good acting

In the Company of Men

From Burning Man to downtown San Fran: the life of a documentary team

Black and True

The best and worst of the AfroSolo Arts Festival

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?

The Colour of Justice

An absorbing courtroom drama examining racism on a London police force

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

Bzzzzzzt

A buzzing hive of concepts kills Bee

Letters to the Editor

Week of March 28, 2001

Blackballin'

Modern American athletics as an outgrowth of slavery

Stage Capsules

Savage Love

White on White

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

Back to School

What's Your Preference?

S.F. voters may really get a choice

Japantown Asks "Y"

The YWCA's financial straits reveal layers of a neighborhood's history

Culture Club

Final Deadline

David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

Bedeviled by Color

Devil in a Blue Dress depicts the '40s antecedents of L.A.'s racial fracturing