Racial disparities undermine Oakland’s contracting process. Can the city fix this?
Earlier this year, Oakland adopted a roadmap outlining steps to help minority and woman-owned businesses get a fairer…
California nonprofits sound alarm as Anti-Asian hate funding might end
A portrait of Monthanus Ratanapakdee standing next to a mural of her late father Vicha Ratanapakdee in San…
A Chinese American likely will be elected S.F. District 4 supervisor
Clockwise from top left: Natalie Gee, Albert Chow, David Lee or Alan Wong are the leading candidates for…
Buffy Sainte-Marie loses another honor over Indigenous claims
Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie performs onstage during Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park on October 2, 2016 in San…
Report: California detention centers weren’t prepared for surge
California DOJ staff said in a new report that they witnessed “crisis-level health care understaffing” at the CoreCivic California City…
Padilla opens inquiry into ill refugee at California ICE facility
Senait Kifle cries while posing for a portrait inside her home in Oakland, Calif. on Tuesday, April 14,…
California’s history is complicated and must be told
Activists occupied Alcatraz Island beginning in November 1969 to protest the treatment of Native Americans. California’s story of…
San Francisco protesters rally at Philz over Pride flags
Suzanne Ford, executive director of San Francisco Pride, organizes a small protest outside the Philz Coffee in the…
Dream Keeper arrests could derail SF commitment to Black community.
Sheryl Davis, pictured in 2024, was once San Francisco’s most powerful civil rights watchdog. On Monday, she was arrested…
When the KKK rallied brazenly in the Bay Area
Peter Hartlaub walks us through the history of the Klan in the Bay Area and throughout Northern California.…
Top SF official who led Dream Keeper program charged with felonies
Sheryl Davis, once San Francisco’s most powerful civil rights watchdog, continued her spectacular fall on Monday when she…
SF ICE accountability law proposed after immigration arrest at SFO
Supervisor Bilal Mahmood makes a speech as hospital workers hold signs in support of the Stand Up For…