Cops in the Club: SFPD’s Racism and Bigotry Don’t Mix with SF Pride
By Leslie Fulbright and Charlie Fredrick Update: Several SF Pride Grand Marshals and awardees, including Janetta Johnson, Black…
Neo-Nazis to Rally at State Capitol
By Jerika L.H. Various neo-Nazi groups are scheduled to meet at the state capitol on June 26…
Text Message Scandal Goes Deep, Involving More Than 200 Cases
Last year, San Francisco officials conducted an investigation revealing that at least five police officers, long-time officers,…
Scathing Report Finds Rampant Racism in Chicago Police Ranks
It was a report whose findings the New York Times called “blistering, blunt” and “backed up by…
Text Scandal Shows Review Is Not Enough
by Alan Schlosser Today, the ACLU of Northern California sent a letter to the U.S. Department of…
Adachi Asks AG’s Office to Probe SFPD
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi Tuesday urged the California Attorney General to open a civil rights…
UCD Investigating Racist Fliers Sent to Printers
UC Davis is investigating the discovery of racist and anti-Semitic fliers received Friday on several networked campus…
Personal Accounts of Racism in Davis
by Jerika L.H. The introduction to this article will be purposefully short on the grounds that…
My View: Demands of Black Students Should Be Evaluated on Their Merits
Every time a racial issue occurs in our own community there are a number of parallel conversations…
Analysis: Another View of Campus Protest and the Need for Safe Spaces
One of the more balanced accounts of the campus protest controversy comes from Cornell Law Professor Michael…
The Power of Speech
By Susan N. Herman Lloyd Gaines was denied admission to the University of Missouri in 1935 because…
My View: Your Sons and Daughters Are Beyond Your Command, the Times Are Changing
This morning I caught the headline of an op-ed in the Bee by Ben Boychuk, “Protests by…
Will the Supreme Court Continue to Allow Race-Based Jury Exclusions?
The US Supreme Court will hear a case on Monday on whether a man sitting on death…
President Obama Defends Black Lives Matter
President Obama talked with Bill Keller of the Marshall Project on the criminal justice system. He said…
Social Justice Group Concerned About Alleged UCD Racial Incidents
by the Davis Social Justice Coalition This past week, an article came out in the UC Davis…
My View II: Does Color-Blindness Offer a Barrier to Addressing Discrimination?
There is an interesting debate in society as to the best approach to solve racial tensions and…
Ways to Fight Hate and Promote Equity, Cultural Competency, Diversity and Social Justice
by Sandy Holman We are living in perilous times. Even as an eternal optimist, who will never…
Fighting Police Misconduct in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Cases
By Sandra Park Black Women and Black Lives Matter: In the year since Ferguson, we have been…
A Matter of Faith
by Tia Will “I told my community, there is nothing we can do now. But the church…
President Obama Eulogizes Those Killed in Charleston
President Obama delivered the following remarks in his eulogy at the funeral of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney…