{"id":177829,"date":"2026-02-14T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177829\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:28:10","slug":"mc-hammer-jumps-aboard-honorary-black-history-month-cable-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177829\/","title":{"rendered":"MC Hammer Jumps Aboard Honorary Black History Month Cable Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Local:MC Hammer made an impromptu appearance aboard an honorary Black History Month cable car Thursday. SFMTA posted a reel featuring the Oakland-born Hammer, who now lives in the Central Valley, posing for photos and breaking out into robotic dance moves. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/entertainment\/article\/mc-hammer-san-francisco-21350996.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle<\/a>]San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie stepped in to help with negotiations during the teachers\u2019 strike a mere week and a half ago, even though educators officially began negotiating a new contract almost a year ago, and an impasse was declared in October, leading to a practice strike in November. [<a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2026\/02\/sfusd-teachers-strike-daniel-lurie\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawP8Y55leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJtTnNGRUNzUU9pbVMxdWNxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkdv8iSi4QRunX_JXMc4TwNGD9qZHcTyj8plJy8LkVrGE7GebYDNKxjXE3EA_aem_jXrluaJfdXzX4TpMXL0DOg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Local<\/a>]The preservationists who want to save the Vallaincourt Fountain at SF\u2019s Justin Herman Plaza have filed a lawsuit demanding that the demolition be paused until the environmental impact report is released, accusing the city of fabricating an emergency in order to bypass the report. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/villaincourt-fountain-lawsuit-21352590.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle<\/a>]National:The Free Press is compiling 14 hours worth of video footage from the January 30 batch of Epstein files to make it more accessible to the public, and they\u2019ve released part one out of two, although much of the screen is blacked out in many of the clips. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/watch-the-jeffrey-epstein-tapes-part\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Free Press<\/a>]Amazon has ended its deal with Ring following backlash over its \u201clost dog\u201d Super Bowl commercial, which revealed that all the Ring devices in the neighborhood can potentially be used to spy on residents. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/amazon-flock-partnership-ending-superbowl-ad-backlash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>]Health officials are raising awareness about the increase of colorectal cancer among people under 40 following the death of Dawson\u2019s Creek actor James Van Der Beek, who died at 48 this week, and Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, who died at age 43 in 2020. [<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/colon-cancer-young-adults-boseman-van-der-beek-7200285f2060145b8369de9ed8db9c17?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>]Video of the Day:<\/p>\n<p>Cory Barnette, the new \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2022\/08\/30\/a-new-bushman-has-arrived-to-terrify-unsuspecting-fishermans-wharf-tourists-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area Bush Man<\/a>,\u201d was in his element at Fisherman\u2019s Wharf during Super Bowl weekend, scaring the daylights out of locals and tourists alike.<\/p>\n<p>Image: Leanne Maxwell\/SFist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local:MC Hammer made an impromptu appearance aboard an honorary Black History Month cable car Thursday. 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