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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — The Dixie School District board voted Tuesday night to change the name of the 150-year-old district after critics linked it to the Confederacy and slavery. Trustees voted 3-1, with one abstention, to change both the name of the San Francisco Bay Area district and the name of its elementary school […]

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The family of Nia Wilson, the 18-year-old girl who was senselessly stabbed to death at a San Francisco Bay Area BART Station last summer, filed a lawsuit against the transportation agency on Friday.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police were searching Monday for a man who wore a red “Make America Great Again” hat and used a sword to slash another man’s hand after an argument outside a roller-skating rink. The attacker fled the scene Friday night outside the Church of 8 Wheels, leaving his victim bleeding […]

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A gas explosion in a San Francisco neighborhood shot flames into the air Wednesday and burned five buildings, sending panicked residents and workers fleeing into the streets. Utility crews put out the fire about three hours after private construction workers cut a natural gas line, igniting the towering flames, San Francisco […]

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Following the exciting announcement that U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris plans to enter the 2020 president race, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown has come forward to address his past relationship with the lawmaker. “Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago,” Brown wrote in his weekly column for the San Francisco Chronicle, noting that the has “been […]

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A video of a racially charged, fatal San Francisco police shooting “casts doubt” on officers’ accounts that a black man was moving quickly toward them when they shot, a federal judge wrote in a court ruling. U.S. District Judge William Orrick’s ruling Tuesday denied San Francisco’s attempt to toss a wrongful […]

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A lawsuit accuses the San Francisco Police Department of racially selective law enforcement.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco board has voted unanimously to remove a 19th century statue that activists say is racist and demeaning to indigenous people. The unanimous decision Wednesday night by the San Francisco Board of Appeals involves the “Early Days” statue, which depicts a Native American at the feet of a Spanish […]

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San Francisco seems to have a serious problem with humans littering the streets with feces. So much so that the city is launching a “Poop Patrol” to combat the problem. According to Business Insider, residents call the city hotline about 65 times a day to report piles of human feces on streets and sidewalks. City officials are […]

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In yet another case of Selling Beverages While Black, an African American man who owns a high-end lemonade business in San Francisco said he had the police called on him after he entered his own store. Viktor Stevenson opened Gourmonade last week and entered with his key on Thursday to check his security system, he told […]

It happened again — and the pattern of racism in public spaces continues. Here’s the troubling, consistent behavior: There are some white people who are looking for a reason – any reason – to call the police on innocent Black people in parks, on streets and in coffee shops across America. But this most recent […]

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San Francisco's Board of Supervisors unanimously eliminated a range of fees charged to those exiting the criminal justice system.