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Someone Is Distributing KKK Recruitment Flyers Around The Haight

San Francisco Woman Gets KKK Recruitment Letter on Her Doorstep!https://t.co/xU1Owy9AiF pic.twitter.com/sw4fr5nRpy— (((BrokeAssStuart))) (@BrokeAssStuart) July 12, 2016 Flyers promoting the Ku Klux Klan and criticizing the Black

Could An App Stop Racist Policing?

It's difficult to overstate technology's importance in the Black Lives Matter movement. Bystander cell phone video has made it harder, if somehow still not impossible, to ignore the seemingly endless killings of African

Federal Judge: SFPD Shows 'Substantial Evidence Of Racially Selective Enforcement'

An SFPD drug sting operation that resulted in the arrests of 37 people, all of whom are African American, shows "substantial evidence" of racially biased law enforcement according to a federal judge. The

Sheryl Sandberg Says Peter Thiel Will Remain On Facebook Board Despite Attack On Gawker

Providing an answer to a question asked by us and other news organizations last week, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg today confirmed that Peter Thiel will remain on Facebook's board — despite the recent revelation

Northern California Student Kicked Out Of Graduation For Wearing African Cloth

A graduating senior at Elk Grove High School outside Sacramento, Nyree Holmes, says he was just trying to "show I'm proud of who I am" by wearing a traditional African kente cloth over

SFPD Doesn't Have A Racism Problem, Says SFPD

With the recent officer-involved shooting of yet another person of color providing yet another example of what some claim to be institutional racism in the San Francisco Police Department, five officers spoke with

Arts & Entertainment

Following Win Over Warriors, Thunder Player Calls Curry And Thompson 'Little Monkeys'

Following last night's 108-to-102 win over the Golden State Warriors, Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams gave a post-game interview in which he was asked his opinion of how opposing players Steph Curry

Video Contradicts SFPD Officer's Sworn Testimony, Meanwhile 66 Cases Require Review Due To Alleged Racist Sergeant

The San Francisco Police Department is under even more scrutiny this week, with the Chronicle reporting that a federal judge yesterday threw out a gun possession case following the introduction into evidence of

Nextdoor Hires Lobbyist To Disrupt Its Own Users' Racism

San Francisco-based Nextdoor is a social media site that in many way serves as a 21st century neighborhood bulletin board — replacing the cork board at the church or local market with a digital

Former Police Union Pres. Defends Allegedly Racist Cop As Community Calls For State Investigation Of SFPD

Yesterday, news broke that a 17-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department serving in the Bayview Station was reported by his colleagues for allegedly highly racist remarks. The content of those remarks,

[Update] Video: Muni Operator Under Investigation Following Racist Outburst

An apparently off-duty Muni employee was captured on video yesterday morning hurling racial slurs at a woman following a disagreement involving a parking spot. Posted to Facebook, the video has garnered significant amounts

Lawsuit Settled In Case Of Alleged Napa Valley Wine Train Racism

A lawyer representing the eleven women kicked off of the Napa Valley Wine Train last August said yesterday that the group has settled their racial discrimination suit against the company. Bay City News

SFPD Text Scandal May Lead To State Or Federal Investigation

Public Defender Jeff Adachi has sent out a release Tuesday calling on California Attorney General Kamala Harris to investigate the racist texting scandal in SFPD essentially saying that the department, in this case,

DA: SFPD Officers Sent Recent Racist Texts Mocking The Racist Text Scandal

According to the District Attorney's office, San Francisco police officers texted each other racist and homophobic remarks making light of the unfolding, so-called racist SFPD texting scandal that roiled the department itself. That

Microsoft Claims 'Coordinated Attack' Turned Its Lovable Twitter Bot Racist

Microsoft today issued an official statement regarding its wildly racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, 9/11 truther Twitter bot with the lovable name of "Tay." The machine learning, artificially intelligent bot was taken

Microsoft's Tween Twitter Bot Instantly Goes Full Racist, 9/11 Truther

Microsoft is doing damage control today after an artificial intelligence Twitter bot it created went totally batshit insane — tweeting vile racist, sexist, 9/11 truther, and other garbage at the world. The AI,

Money Covered In Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech Used At Alameda Mexican Restaurant

A five dollar bill covered in anti-immigrant slogans was used to buy delicious Mexican food at Alameda's La Penca Azul restaurant this past Friday. The bill, upon which someone had written specific anti-Latino

Facebook Employees Keep Crossing Out 'Black Lives Matter' And Writing 'All Lives Matter' At Company HQ

Something is rotten in Menlo Park. On the public wall slash internal message board thing at Facebook headquarters, modeled on the digital "wall" of the social network, Facebook employees have taken to crossing

Now You Can Flag Nextdoor Posts For Racial Profiling

"Love thy neighbor" isn't typically the guiding principle on Nextdoor.com, the private, free social network for neighborhoods which launched in San Francisco in 2011. Since then it's raised, per Crunchbase, over $200

Video: Insanely Racist Road Rage Incident In Portland

A Portland area plumber, apparently angry at a woman driving near him who he thought was Hispanic, began yelling racial slurs at her over and over again out his truck window, and she

Those Hate-Texting Police Officers Just Get Off Scot-Free

It's not the complete, dismal conclusion of the so-called SFPD racist text scandal, because Chief Greg Suhr has vowed to appeal the decision, but police officers who texted racist and homophobic slurs and

East Bay Woman Who Accosted Muslims During Prayers Charged With Hate Crime

Remember this lady? Of course you do — she would be hard to forget. Just under two weeks ago video surfaced that appeared to show her accosting several Muslim men praying in a Castro