SF News Albany High Expels Teen Over Racist Instagram Posts, Parents Vow Lawsuit Deplorable teens will be deplorable teens, but an East Bay school district has drawn the line at racism and veiled threats of violence. You may recall the saga of 13 Albany High School
SF News Cupertino Teens Accused Of Creating A 'Kill List' Targeting African-American Classmates A group of teenagers at a Cupertino high school apparently circulated a "kill list" of African-American students and numerous leaders and activists are angry that the school administration did little to handle the
SF News Religious Pleasanton Construction Company Sued For Racist Harassment Steel your nerves, people. Here's some local news about some alleged monumental ignorance. An African-American woman named Tishay Wright is suing her former employer, Pleasanton-based Southland Construction Inc. because her bosses were allegedly
SF News Portland Train Suspect Appears In Court, Calls Stabbings 'Patriotism' The suspect in the fatal stabbings aboard a Portland commuter train on Friday made his first court appearance Tuesday, and he shows no signs of remorse for an act that is being widely
SF News Horrible Racist Teenagers Are A Thing In The Bay Area Naively, you might have assumed that teenagers in the San Francisco Bay Area would be less blatantly racist than teenagers in, say, the depths of Mississippi in 1952. Sadly, you would be wrong.
SF News Ugly Racial Profiling Incident Caught On Video At Mission Grocery Store Things are not off to the best start at the new Grocery Outlet Bargain Market location at South Van Ness Street and 23rd Street, the former DeLano’s Market that sat empty for
SF News Albany Teens Sue School For Right To 'Like' Racist Memes In the East Bay community of Albany, four students are suing the school district over being disciplined for commenting on or ‘Liking’ images on a racist Instagram account. According to ABC 7, the
SF News Woman Refused Access To Airbnb House At California Ski Resort Because She Is Asian 25-year-old law student Dyne Suh booked a cabin on Airbnb in Running Springs, California, near Big Bear Lake, for her and her fiancé on President's Day Weekend. She says that she had booked
SF News Free Speech?: Milo Yiannopoulos Planned To Out Undocumented Students By Name In His Berkeley Talk One day before semi-professional provocateur and campaigner for the freedom to be a complete dick Milo Yiannopoulos was set to speak at UC Berkeley on February 1, his sometime employer Breitbart published an
SF News Local Versace Store Accused Of Having Secret Code For Black Customers A Versace retail outlet in the Bay Area is being sued by a former employee who was fired, he says, after just two weeks. What's more, he says he was discriminated against for
SF News Unofficial BART Notice Calls Out Racism, Etc., Tells Riders To 'Get Your S**t Together' Several official-looking but clearly unofficial BART notices observed by riders this morning call attention to the national uptick in angry, bigoted attacks since the election of Donald Trump in a campaign whose rhetoric
SF News Man Arrested In Bayview For Spraying Racist Graffiti The nation's rash of emboldened racism continues with an incident Thursday evening in the Bayview. The SFPD sent out a release regarding the arrest of and charges against 33-year-old David Chacon of San
Arts & Entertainment Watch Kanye West Tell Crowd, 'I Would Have Voted For Trump' And 'We're In A Racist Country' After the election, chatter started to pick up again about Kanye West running for president in 2020. Well, speaking to his audience at the SAP Center on his special Saint Pablo Tour hoverboard,
SF News San Jose Teacher Tells Student Who Sat Through National Anthem He Could Be Deported Under Trump A PE teacher at Oak Grove High School in San Jose is currently on leave and could face disciplinary action after she allegedly made a deeply ignorant and offensive remark to a student
SF News Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Implies Too Many Asians Have Power In Silicon Valley On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed to "drain the swamp" on Capitol Hill. Instead, he's made clear with his staff appointments so far that his intention is to pump it full of
SF News Hate Crimes, Though Now Possibly On The Rise In The Bay Area, Remained Low Here In 2015 As more anecdotal and confirmed reports of hate crimes and hate speech arise in the local media and on your Facebook feeds in the wake of last week's election the assumption being that
SF News Facebook Reverses Course, Will Stop Allowing Advertisers To Exclude Users Based On Race Facebook ran into trouble late last month when a ProPublica report revealed that the social media company allowed advertisers to exclude people from their ad campaigns based on their race. Such practices could
SF News Video: Captain On SFO-Departing Flight Addresses Passengers Following Racist Incident A captain on a United flight out of SFO was apparently forced to make a plane-wide announcement following a racist encounter onboard, apparently related to the election of Donald Trump. Details are few,
SF News Sen. Al Franken Takes Uber And Lyft To Task Over Bias Report Following up on a National Bureau of Economic Research report released last month which found that Uber and Lyft drivers in Seattle and Boston discriminated against passengers with African American-sounding names, Senator Al
SF News Insurance Company To Offer Rate Discounts Based On Your Facebook Posts A UK auto insurer is seeking to get quick insights into your personality via snapshots of Facebook posts that would, they say, make people eligible for discounts, or cause them to get higher
SF News Study: Uber Drivers Are More Likely To Cancel Your Ride If You're Black An Uber driver is twice as likely to cancel a ride if the passenger requesting it has a black-sounding name, a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds. The study,
SF News Facebook Allows Advertisers To Exclude Users Based On Their Race When we learned earlier this year that Facebook allows advertisers to target users based on their race, it appeared to simply be just another attempt by the social media giant to allow for
SF News Discussions Of Bias, Tech, And Trump Take Center Stage At The <em>Vanity Fair</em> New Establishment Summit While everyday San Franciscans went about their normal business last week, a collection of movers and shakers from the worlds of business, tech, media, and politics gathered at Yerba Buena Center for the
SF News Anti-Defamation League: 2.6 Million Anti-Semitic Messages Posted On Twitter Over Past Year Twitter, the proverbial bridge under which trolls can spawn and spew, has been a particular hotbed for anti-Semitism, so much so that the nonprofit Anti-Defamation League Task Force on Harassment and Journalism has
SF News [Update] White Nationalist Rally Planned In SF Elicits Calls For Counter Protest A group of anti-immigrant, white nationalists plan to hold a rally in San Francisco today protesting the city's status as a sanctuary city, and calls have gone out for counter-protesters to meet them
