SF News SF Reparations Committee Recommends $5 Million Lump-Sum Payments to Eligible Black Residents In one of the most sweeping and expensive proposals for reparations to Black Americans, a committee tasked with making recommendations for providing reparations to Black residents of San Francisco is suggesting $5 million lump-sum payments to residents who meet certain eligibility requirements.
SF News Right-Wing Nutjob Couple Who Painted Over BLM Mural In Martinez Arrested For Burglary, Meth Possession Well well well. A couple hailed as heroes by Tucker Carlson for their brave work expressing the fears of ignorant white people back in 2020 has just been arrested for allegedly burglarizing a dead man's home and possessing meth.
SF News Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted of All Charges, and Wisconsin May See Some Unrest Tonight Militia kid Kyle Rittenhouse is a free man, as a jury acquitted him of all charges after deliberating for three and a half days.
SF News Palo Alto Police Are Suing the City Over a Black Lives Matter Mural They Say Discriminates Against Them A Black Lives Matter mural that sparked outrage from Palo Alto police over a year ago is now the subject of a lawsuit against the city over its refusal to remove it for four months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Sonoma's Girl & the Fig Closes Temporarily After Dustup Over a Black Lives Matter Mask A Sonoma restaurant was called out by a former employee last month for, as she described it, "forcing her out" of her job because she refused to abide by a face-mask policy that required her not to wear a Black Lives Matter mask she had been wearing.
SF News Sculpted Breonna Taylor Bust in Downtown Oakland Vandalized Day After Christmas Less than two weeks ago, a statue built to honor the life of Breonna Taylor debuted in Oakland's Latham Square; it was promptly broken into pieces the day after Christmas by unknown vandals.
SF News Dublin Teen Harassed Online by Gun Dealer For Organizing Black Lives Matter Event The gun dealer has since apologized for and taken down his posts with a picture of the teen, with messages like “bring your vests and helmets” and “get ready for a fun couple hours.”
SF News Contra Costa County is Getting an ‘Office of Racial Equity and Social Justice’ Contra Costa County supervisors argue that systemic racism is a COVID-19 superspreader too, and approved a new social justice office that will not initially involve taxpayer dollars.
Arts & Entertainment SOMArts Debuts 'The Black Woman Is God: Reclaim, Reconfigure, Re–Remember' Exhibit To Celebrate Black Female Creatives The newest exhibit at SOMArts honors the fact that Black women have played (and continue playing) a pivotal role in pushing our society forward in the right direction.
SF News Photos: Hundreds Rally in San Francisco for Women's March Amid a weekend that was characterized by a rally visited by members of the Proud Boys and the exorcism of a vandalized statue paying homage to a controversial 18th-century priest, Saturday’s Women's March in San Francisco offered some welcomed hope for a more inclusive, rational future.
SF News Breonna Taylor Protests Remained Peaceful, Relatively Small In the Bay Area Wednesday Night A massive protest like the ones we saw in late May in the wake of the killing of George Floyd failed to materialize in Oakland Wednesday night following news out of Louisville that no police officers are being charged with her death.
SF News Where You Can Attend (And Expect) Breonna Taylor Protests in the Bay Area Wednesday and Thursday Earlier Wednesday, a grand jury indicted now-fired Louisville police detective Brett Hankison on charges of endangering Breonna Taylor’s neighbors by carelessly firing his gun during the March raid on her apartment — but no officers were charged with the killing of the slain 26-year-old.
SF News Data Shows Black People Are Pulled Over By SF Cops at an Even Higher Rate Than Three Years Ago Data from a recent KGO/ABC 7 investigation shows that Black people continue to be pulled over by SF police at a much higher rate than white people — and higher than even a few years ago.
SF News Op-Ed: Restructuring Police Department Oversight If the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests are to have a lasting impact on police practices in this country, they must be accompanied by legislative action.
SF News Martinez Couple Who Painted Over 'Black Lives Matter' Mural Plead Not Guilty to Hate Crime The MAGA couple who took black paint to a Black Lives Matter street mural in the East Bay has pleaded not guilty, blaming George Soros for their legal predicament because of course they did.
SF Politics Of Course the SF Police Union Doesn't Want Those Black Lives Matter Posters In Stations The San Francisco Police Officers Association (POA) can always be counted on to be on the wrong side of history, and to say all the wrong things.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Vents to 'Vogue' About White Progressives, and Those Protesters Who Came to Her House The interview covers a range of topics, including the needs of the Black community in San Francisco, her frustration with the mostly white progressives she encounters in local politics, and handling the ongoing pandemic in San Francisco and its large homeless population.
SF News Martinez Man Seen Menacing Black Lives Matter Supporters With Gun Charged With Two Felonies A third Martinez resident has been charged with a crime following July 4th weekend dustups over a freshly painted Black Lives Matter mural in front of the county courthouse.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz Coffee Lays Off 181 Workers After Protests Over Safety Practices, Discounts For Cops Tensions have been brewing (sorry) at locally founded Philz Coffee for several months both due to pandemic concerns and what workers claim are unsafe practices inside the companies' coffeeshops. And now the company has announced its first round of layoffs.
SF News Calling Racism a 'Leftist Lie,' Two Trump Supporters Attempt to Paint Over BLM Mural In Martinez A dude wearing a "Four More Years" Trump 2020 t-shirt and a female companion decided to make a statement Sunday in Martinez by painting over a yellow, block-lettered "Black Lives Matter" mural on a city street with black paint.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Executive Steps Down After Instagram Institutional Racism Incident A hollow, corporate Black Lives Matter post on SFMOMA’s Instagram drew a critical comment from an ex-employee, setting off a month of escalating drama and critiques of the museum’s mostly white executive culture.
SF News East Bay Black Residents' Property Defaced In Two Separate 'All Live Matter' Graffiti Incidents The home of a black woman in a traditionally black neighborhood in Oakland as well at the vehicles belonging to a black family in Alameda were both targeted with "All Lives Matter" graffiti over the weekend in two apparently separate incidents.
SF News Angela Davis, Skateboarders, and More Scenes From Juneteenth Weekend Protests in the Bay Area Bay Area protests denouncing racism and police brutality show no sign of easing up anytime soon. This weekend saw at least two skateboarding protests in support of BLM, another paddle out at Ocean Beach to honor George Floyd, and additional rallies celebrating Friday’s Juneteenth holiday.
SF News SF Man Yells 'Blue Lives Matter,' Allegedly Threatens To Kill Family Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirts At Restaurant A San Francisco man isn't quite doing SF proud if what San Mateo County authorities say is true. He's accused of yelling at a family of five outside a Burlingame restaurant last week and threatening to shoot them for wearing Black Lives Matter shirts.
SF News SF 'Karen' Filmed Confronting Pacific Heights Man Over Writing 'Black Lives Matter' on His Property Alas, it looks like New York City's Amy Cooper, who called the police on a black Harvard-educated bird watcher in Central Park back in May, might be upstaged by San Francisco skincare CEO Lisa Alexander after she was filmed criticizing a local man for writing "Black Lives Matter" outside his home.
