Tag: Disparities

GLIDE celebrates its newest initiative — a community barbershop designed to connect men with critical health and support services.

As 2025 draws to a close, San Francisco has made a significant move on the long-discussed issue of reparations for Black residents, establishing a dedicated Reparations Fund to address centuries of systemic discrimination and its ongoing impacts.

A toxic site in the Mission District, polluted with gasoline that leaked from storage tanks, is undergoing cleanup. Such remediations take longer in communities of color than majority-white communities. – Photo: Laura Wenus, San Francisco Public Press

Arieann Harrison talks with longtime Hunters Point resident Antoine Mahan about his concern that truck traffic to and from the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard may be worsening air quality along Innes Avenue, where he lives. Even simple remediations lag at Bay Area sites in socially vulnerable areas, a Public Press analysis shows.

Twisting the narrative around the prison system to be comfortable is like drinking a glass of lumpy sour milk imagining it to be a milkshake – not real, or productive.

Discrimination with impunity by those providing housing to Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor people act not in service to the community, but in the name of profits over people.

“Despite three reports studying Black People in regard to racism in 55 years, Black San Franciscans are worse off than ever before.”