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Men and women queue outside a municipal office in order to have their racial origins examined. As well as personal documents, they clutch the results of DNA tests and fading family photographs. If they can prove to the authorities that they are descended from a 19th Century black slave, they will be eligible for millions […]
CNN — A committee in San Francisco has released an extensive proposal for reparations that includes a one-time payment of $5 million to each eligible Black resident.
The San Francisco Bay area has long been known as the home of Big Tech — and the extreme wealth the industry has created. But during the pandemic, as workers and companies relocated elsewhere, San Francisco experienced the largest drop in median household income among top U.S. metropolitan areas, according to data from the Census […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Francisco Álvarez is a baseball player, un jugador. Always has been. Álvarez’s mother, Yolanda, likes to tell of the time when Álvarez, just 2 or 3 years old, snuck under some netting and wandered onto his older brother’s field in Venezuela. Once there, he found an adult-sized cap and placed it on […]
Authorities at San Francisco International Airport took one person into custody after an incident Friday evening that left three people injured. The victims were attacked around 6 p.m. in the airport’s International Terminal, said Shawn Miyaki, an airport duty manager. Each suffered minor injuries. Miyaki could not say whether any of the people required medical […]
CLICK HERE FOR SAN FRANCISCO RESULTS, ANALYSIS, MAPS AND GRAPHICS San Francisco is a mid-sized North American city. It has almost exactly the same population as Columbus, Ohio. It’s about 15 percent larger than Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Those two cities, for good or ill, don . . .
Placeholder while article actions load When the bubonic plague reached San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900, it prompted a racial panic — and helped push science forward. “American Experience: Plague at the Golden Gate,” premiering Tuesday on PBS, tells the seemingly contradictory, and all too timely, story.
Rev. Amos Brown, senior pastor of Third Baptist Church, San Francisco, Calif., speaks is 2012. California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force meets in person Wednesday for the first time since its inaugural meeting nearly a year ago. Cliff Owen/AP hide caption toggle caption Cliff Owen/AP Rev. Amos Brown, senior pastor of Third Baptist Church, San Francisco, […]
A sophomore student at Louise High School Antonio Martinez, 15, also a cross country runner, wears a mask as he poses, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Louise, Texas, U.S., November 20, 2020. REUTERS/Go Nakamura Aug 12 (Reuters) – San Francisco announced on Thursday that proof of full vaccination would be required for entry […]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – The San Francisco Bay Area is enjoying a new international tourism boom, but it’s not because of Fisherman’s Warf or the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead, people are flying into the airport from all over the world to get the COVID-19 vaccine. “It’s hard to get a vaccine in the Philippines, so […]