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Oakland Pride is back in person, Folsom Street Fair presents Megahood...

Celebrating sexual liberation for all with Pride festivals, fairs and clubs all over the Bay!

Breaking historical silence to heal from historical wounds: Remembering the 1966...

During the fall of 1966, racial and economic disparity exploded into a violent three-day conflict between local and state law enforcement, the National Guard and the Black community of Bayview Hunters Point.

On the Brown Side: Insurrection, inauguration and rebirth

With hope, inspiration and love, one of San Francisco’s own jewels, Sydney Brown, shares from Washington her view of the possibilities to unfold as the newly inaugurated President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris begin the process to serve all Americans.

San Francisco don’t like Black people

‘Reversing the Outmigration’ is a project allowing Black journalists to examine the myriad issues affecting the Black community in San Francisco, in collaboration with...

Diversity talk highlights anti-Blackness and Black erasure within the LGBTQIA+ community

Denial of anti-Blackness is an everyday occupation in the LGBTQIA+ community and in San Francisco specifically, making this conversation long overdue.

Black and female in higher education: Professors stand alone against hate...

When I got an email about a recent assault on a Black female sociology instructor at Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Professor Kimberly C. Williams, whose student brought a noose to her class, I thought her case was an isolated event. Little did I know that assault on Black women professors is cause for alarm, given the fact that two instances happened in the same month in the same year.

Martin, money and movies: ‘Django’ and ‘Lincoln’ remind us reparations should...

On the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it comes to mind that from day one our society and culture have been heavily influenced by film. The recent slavery-related films, “Lincoln,” directed by Steven Spielberg, and “Django Unchained,” directed by Quentin Tarantino, will have a social, economic and psychological impact.

Attorney General Eric Holder: ‘A nation of cowards’

We need to confront our racial past - and our racial present. In things racial, we have always been and continue to be essentially a nation of cowards. This Department of Justice, as long as I am here, must - and will - lead the nation to the "new birth of freedom."