SF News Descendants of Black Family Who Were Run Out of Piedmont in the 1920s Sue the City For Reparations The descendants of Sidney and Irene Dearing have now filed a lawsuit in Alameda County seeking damages from the City of Piedmont over an egregious, century-old act of racial injustice.
SF News Petaluma Police Arrest Suspect For Hate Crime Targeting Youth Coach and Former Globetrotter After initially suspending the case due to lack of evidence, Petaluma police arrested a suspect who was allegedly caught on video surveillance tracing racial slurs and swastikas onto the dusty windows of local youth mentor and former Harlem Globetrotter William Bullard’s SUV.
SF News Hate on the Rise: Ex-Globetrotter’s SUV Defaced in Petaluma, San Jose Teens Form Human Swastika As the federal government continues to attack DEI efforts — emboldening racists to come out of the woodwork, two high-profile hate incidents came to light this week. In Petaluma, a youth mentor and ex-Globetrotter was targeted, and in San Jose, high school students formed a human swastika.
SF News Porta-Potty Catches Fire Outside Alamo Square Home of Dog Walker Targeted in Racist Threats While the Alamo Square home of dog walker Terry Williams undergoes renovations after burning down in the spring of 2024, a porta-potty at the site was set on fire around 1 am Saturday. Additionally, the suspect in the case of the racist threats has been missing since the fall of 2024.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lawmakers OK Bill to Rollback Cannabis Tax to 15%, Awaiting Newsom’s Approval Valkyries Coach Natalie Nakase was awarded ‘Coach of the Year’ and Vs guard Veronica Burton received ‘Most Improved Player;’ nasal sprays containing azelastine may help prevent contracting COVID-19; and the state excise tax on cannabis could go back down to 15% from the current 19% soon.
SF News Healdsburg Woman Heard Using N-Word In Viral TikTok Video Speaks Out, Insists She's Not Racist A May 23 TikTok video of a Healdsburg woman hurling a racial epithet at a team of movers racked up millions of views and became a viral “Karen video,” but that woman, who’s since moved out of state, blames the whole thing on being bipolar.
SF News Oakland Elementary School Mortified as Racial Slur Ends Up in Children's Yearbook The PTA at Oakland's Montclair Elementary School is frantically trying to undo the damage, as their new and just-released yearbook contains a pretty outrageous racial slur from a reprinted 1940s-era newspaper clipping.
SF Politics State Court Shoots Down SoCal School District’s Ban on Critical Race Theory The small Temecula Valley Unified School District in Southern California’s Riverside County has made a big deal out of their extremely vague ban on critical race theory, but a state appeals court just ruled that it violates the state Constitution.
Business & Tech Tesla Settles Racial Discrimination Lawsuit From Fremont Factory Worker, Still Has More Discrimination Suits Pending One former Fremont Tesla factory employee has received a settlement in a three-year-old lawsuit over alleged racially charged workplace incidents. But there are still more big lawsuits against Tesla looming, including a class-action suit from 16,000 Black workers.
SF News Entire Tamalpais High School Football Program Put On Probation Over Racist Incidents After undisclosed acts of football team racism toward Black members of the team, Tamalpais High School has put the whole football program on probation, and will forfeit all of the team’s remaining games if there’s another incident.
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 News Alameda County Firefighter Placed on Leave as Racist Confrontation Goes Viral on TikTok An unidentified Alameda County Fire Department officer has been placed on administrative leave after a TikTok video showed him confronting a driver and calling that driver a “dumbass Mexican” who was “going to work some f***ing lawn job.”
SF News Image Released of Person Who Might Be Linked to Racist Threats Against Alamo Square Dog-Walker The SFPD has released a surveillance image of a person of interest whom they are seeking for questioning in connection to the racist threats that were left at and mailed to the home of a dog-walker in Alamo Square.
SF News NAACP Holds Meeting With Black Families About Alleged Racist Incidents at SF Public Schools There was a meeting Sunday at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco at which several Black parents spoke about racist incidents their children had suffered at SF public schools.
Business & Tech Judge Allows Suits to Go Forward Charging That Facebook, YouTube and Reddit Profit From Extremist Content Several lawsuits stemming directly from a 2022 mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York grocery store, which contend that social media platforms actively engage and profit from individuals spreading and consuming hate speech with deadly consequences, can move forward, a judge has ruled.
SF News Racist Zoom-Bombs at Emeryville City Council Meeting Test Remote Public Comment Policies Literally every remote public commenter at last Tuesday's Emeryville City Council meeting was a racist troll, presenting a test for one of the few Bay Area cities that still allows remote public comment.
SF News Neo-Nazis Turn to Crowdfunding Just So They Can Show Up to Make Racist Comments at City Council Meetings A character who showed up to make Nazi salutes at a Walnut Creek City Council meeting last week is actually part of a larger network of racist grifters who are starting to rely on crowdfunding to finance their antics.
SF News Guy In ‘White Power’ T-Shirt With Swastika Tries to Hijack Walnut Creek City Council Meeting With Antisemitic Rant Walnut Creek is one of many cities that ended remote public comment because of racist Zoombombs, so one of the racist Zoombombers showed up in person at Tuesday’s meeting in hopes of blaming it all on Jewish people.
SF News Alt-Right Wackadoodles Now Impersonating the NorCal Journalists Who Exposed Their ‘Zoom-Bombing’ of City Meetings Two Northern California journalists got to the bottom of who was disrupting various city hall meetings with anti-semitic messages in Berkeley and Marin County. The neo-Nazis then started impersonating those journalists in the same meetings, and others across the country.
SF News Racists Have Been ‘Zoombombing’ Public Meetings Across US, and SF's Board of Supervisors May End Remote Commenting Entirely Public comment at Tuesday’s SF Board of Supervisors veered into a cesspool of racist ant anti-semitic comments, in a pattern we’re seeing proliferate across the Bay Area, and really, the whole country.
SF News New York Times Takes Deep Dive Into 2017 Albany High School Instagram Scandal Over a Racist Meme Account Back in 2017, the small East Bay town of Albany was roiled by the discovery of a wildly racist "finsta" account that posted memes as well as doctored photos of students of color at Albany High School. The aftermath was violent, lengthy, and litigious.
SF News East Bay-Based ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Declares White People Should ‘Just Get the F*** Away’ From Black People More newspapers are dropping the cartoon “Dilbert” this week, after its creator Scott Adams went full racist granddad in a podcast rant declaring “the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the f*** away.”
SF News Black Marin County Couple Lowballed by $500K In Home Appraisal Featured In New Documentary The new documentary “Our America: Lowballed” details how Black and Latinx families get far lower appraisals on their homes, and one of the families featured is a notorious case from Marin County.
SF News White Supremacists In East Bay Tried to Stoke Race War After Buffalo Shooting With 'White Lives Matter' Sign A disgusting demonstration took place in the East Bay community of Blackhawk Saturday just hours after a mass shooting claimed ten lives at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, most of them Black people.
Arts & Entertainment Dickens Christmas Fair Faces Backlash and Boycott Over Racism, Harassment Allegations More than 200 Dickens Fair cast members, and thousands of attendees from years past say that the annual holiday festival has been a bleak house of racist behavior toward performers of color.
