SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Concord School Apologizes For Serving Watermelon, Fried Chicken During Black History Month Carondelet High School, a private Catholic school in Concord, came under fire this week after adding "racially insensitive" items to the Friday lunch menu. Fried chicken, watermelon and cornbread were set to feed
SF News San Jose State University Has A Diversity Problem Just a week after four white San Jose State University Students were accused of hate crimes for tormenting their black roommate, a two-year-old study has surfaced indicating African-American students have faced similar racist
SF News San Jose State University Students Accused Of Hate Crimes, Tormenting Black Roommate Three students at San Jose State University face up to a year each of jail time for alleged hate crimes including shackling their African-American roommate with a bicycle U-Lock and nicknaming him "three-fifths.
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This 1885 Vice Map Of Chinatown There was a time when San Francisco was known more for its brothels, seedy boarding houses and gambling parlors than its high rents, tech companies and leather parties. And according to a rare
SF News Giants Apologize To Adam Jones For Banana-Throwing Incident; Banana Tosser Comes Clean [Update] In light of Sunday's news that a Giants fan allegedly threw a banana at Orioles' center fielder Adam Jones, who is black, the franchise made a formal apology to both the player and
SF News Video: Musician Attacked Onstage After Dedicating Song To Trayvon Martin Blues/rock singer Lester Chambers, 73, cofounder of the Chambers Brothers, was attacked onstage at a concert in Hayward on Sunday shortly after dedicating a song to Trayvon Martin. While performing at the
SF News Justice For Trayvon: Rallies In S.F. And Oakland To Protest Zimmerman Verdict After George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, several rallies sparked up shortly after the not-guilty verdict was read. In San Francisco, authorities temporarily shut down
SF News Black People Arrested for Pot Possession Way More Than Whites If you think the War on Drugs is mostly about "hard" drugs these days, think again. And when it comes to the War on Pot, it's been a futile war to say the
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn's Son 'Hopper' Drops Racist, Homophobic Slurs At Paparazzi Dr. Phil should feature a very special episode on why the Penn Family is always so aggro. Until then, we're stuck with shocking videos like this soon to be classic TMZ clip of
SF News Sexual Harassment Suit Against VC Firm Will Make You Feel Dirty Are you near a shower and some astringent body wash? Then read on. Three women are suing San Francisco venture firm CMEA Capital and former chief operating partner John Haag for sexual harassment,
Arts & Entertainment Many Americans Think Al Jazeera Are Terrorists, Say TV Experts With the purchase of Current TV this week, Pan-Arab news network Al Jazeera bought a huge base of American subscribers (many of whom didn't seem to know they even had the channel). According
SF News Video: Horrible California Woman Doesn't See A Problem With Her Racist Obama Assassination Status Update With one Facebook status update on election night, a California woman went from Cold Stone Creamery employee in the forgettable town of Turlock, CA to infamous racist under investigation by the Secret Service.
SF News UC Berkeley Fraternity's Halloween Decor Deemed Not Cool A UC Berkeley fraternity is under fire for misguided haunted house decor left literally hanging outside their frat house on Halloween. Theta Delta Chi thought it would be a good idea to feature
SF News Market Street Travelodge Falls Under Racism Controversy The Travelodge on Market Street stands accused of racism against a few noted patrons, who are black, after a skirmish over credit cards and incidentals resulted in some pretty astounding behavior from the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Gay Dance Party's Confusing Pico de Gallo Racism Controversy Hard French, El Rio's award-winning afternoon queer dance party in the Mission District, turned soft over the weekend after several of its Facebook followers (i.e., commenters) took offense to their naming their
SF News UC Berkeley Republican 'Diversity Bake Sale' Deemed Racist The UC Berkeley Republicans plan to host a provocative "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" this Thursday, one that many have decried as racist. Why? Well, because the bake sale's organizers plan to charge different
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Coming To Oakland Former Smiths lead singer and avowed racist Morrissey will make a pitstop at the Fox Theater later this year. The (not so) sensitive crooner will appear with Kristeen Young at the Fox Theater
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Racist San Jose Panda Express Sued By Feds According to the Associated Press, a San Jose Panda Express is in a world of trouble after allegedly discriminating against Latino employees. "Federal officials are suing a San Jose Panda Express, accusing the
misc 47 Percent Rise In Latino Hate Crimes, Says Calif. Attorney General's Office While hate crimes against blacks, gays, and Jewish folks dropped in 2010, the California Attorney General's reports a jarring 47 increase in hate crimes committed against Latinos last year. SF Weekly reports that
SF News Charges Dropped in Droopy Pants Predicament Criminal charges brought against Deshon Marman, the University of New Mexico football player and San Francisco native pulled off a U.S. Airways flight during a scuffle over his saggy pants, have been
SF News Leland Yee Receives Racist, Faxed Death Threat Sen. Leland Yee received some sort of death threat today - a faxed death threat, no less - after performance artist Rush Limbaugh's humor-free tirade about the Chinese language. "The threats to the
SF News Breaking: City Workers Banned from Traveling to Arizona Oh dear. Here we go. City workers are banned from traveling to Arizona for official work. SF Gate reports: "San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced today a moratorium on official city travel to
SF News St. Mary's College Instructor Disciplined for "Ol' Man River" On Monday, St. Mary's instructor Louis Lebherz was ordered to apologize to his class and complete diversity training after instructing a student to sing a certain song from Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat,
SF News NorCal Man Arrested for Threatening Nancy Pelosi A Northern California man was arrested in connection with making "threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform." Sparked by racist hate group The Tea Party (let's just say)
SF News Racist Street Art Found at Oakland Church The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension on Lincoln Avenue in Oakland was vandalized with hateful graffiti over the weekend. A giant swastika, dirty words and "other racial epithets" were, according to CBS
