SF News Rev. Amos Brown Retiring, or Rather, ‘Repositioning’ to Become Pastor Emeritus at Third Baptist Church After fifty prolific years as the pastor at SF’s Third Baptist Church, the Reverend Amos Brown is stepping aside to the position of “Pastor Emeritus,” and there’s a big weekend of events to honor him, including a street renaming.
SF News Arrest Made In Alleged Hate-Crime Attack on Netflix Chef In Downtown SF A San Francisco woman who was allegedly attacked by a man who she says called her the N-word as he passed her on the street in the Financial District Monday says she no longer feels safe walking on her own in the city.
SF Politics Rev. Amos Brown Issues Apology Over Alleged Intimidation of Rapper Who Made Breed Diss Track A week after he denied doing any such thing, longtime SF civil rights leader Rev. Amos Brown issued a formal apology for intimidating an SF restaurant owner and rapper who made a diss track and video about Mayor London Breed.
SF Politics SF Rapper Who Made Breed Diss Track Alleges That Rev. Amos Brown Came to His Business and 'Threatened' Him A tempest in a teapot story from last week saw local rapper Chino Yang saying “someone extremely powerful” threatened him over a London Breed diss track. But we now learn it was allegedly just 82-year-old, long-ago SF supervisor Rev. Amos Brown.
SF News Activists Rally for Reparations at Third Baptist Church Town Hall Meeting A Valentine’s Day town hall meeting at Third Baptist Church brought famed civil rights attorney John Burris and other supporters of the controversial $5 million per eligible person reparations plan, with Rev. Amos Brown calling reparations opponents the “personification of evil.”
SF News Rev. Amos Brown Publishes Stemwinder Op-Ed Blasting ‘Nearly Unlivable’ Conditions In the Fillmore Third Baptist Church pastor and SF NAACP president Amos Brown continues his campaign of calling attention to the state of the Fillmore District, in a new op-ed saying the neighborhood is experiencing “an explosion of homeless tent encampments, open drug use, and violence.”
SF News California’s First-in-the-Nation Reparations Task Force Meets at Third Baptist Church in the Fillmore You can tune in live to the proceedings of the California Reparations Task Force, underway Wednesday and Thursday, as the state is the first in the country working on formalizing reparations for slavery.
SF News Rev. Amos Brown: 'The Only Thing San Francisco Is Progressive On Is Sex' Longtime San Francisco civil rights activist and Black community leader Rev. Amos Brown, who also served on the Board of Supervisors from 1996 to 2001, sat down for a recent interview with the Chronicle — and he minced no words about the city's history when it comes to the treatment of Black people.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Jesse Jackson "Keeps Hope Alive" "Jobs/ and schools/ not drugs/ and guns." Repeat x2 "Hope/ alive/ keep hope/ alive. Let me hear your scream!" CLAER Project representative and SFSU student Kevin Bard was on hand to remind people
Arts & Entertainment Asianweek Fallout We've heard the self-proclaimed "Voice of Asian America," and it's apologizing profusely. SFist Jim stopped by yesterday's NAACP press conference with Amos Brown (.mp3 of his comments) and a shell-shocked Asianweek editor-at-large Ted
SF News Amos and Arnie Strangely enough, word is also getting out there that Amos is on the payroll of the Governor as a political consultant. Hmmmm...you wouldn't think...no, not even possible. Brown is saying that
