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Despite its reputation as one of the most progressive regions in the country, the Bay Area grew more segregated over the last three decades, according to a new UC Berkeley study. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bay Area celebrated the nation's newest official holiday - Juneteenth - on Saturday with barbecues, bouncy houses, martial arts demonstrations, music and the opening of a small museum featuring a pop-up exhibit on the Black Panthers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Marie Harrison warned for years that the Hunters Point shipyard where she once worked on San Francisco's southeastern edge was a slow-motion public health disaster. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco Assistant Fire Chief Nicol Juratovac filed a civil lawsuit against the city this week alleging discrimination, harassment and whistleblower retaliation. Her previous internal complaint to the city's human resources department was handled by an ex-manager who admitted to forging a settlement with a different employee. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The sound bullets make when breaking through a windshield of a vehicle is hard to forget. And it's a noise that still echoes in my ears after watching body cam footage of Vallejo police killing Sean Monterrosa and video of Vallejo police firing 55 bullets in 3.5 seconds at the car of Willie McCoy, both shown during the season six premiere of CNN's "United Shades of America." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Alameda County is violating the U.S. Constitution by "unnecessarily institutionalizing" people with mental health needs and by subjecting them to prolonged solitary confinement in the county jail, the Justice Department concluded after a five-year investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland-based health care giant Kaiser Permanente is settling two class-action lawsuits over unequal pay, one on behalf of Black employees for $11.5 million and the other for Latino employees for $7.4 million. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland-based health care giant Kaiser Permanente is settling a class action lawsuit over unequal pay and promotions on behalf of Black employees for $11.5 million. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A federal appeals court granted Wells Fargo's request Tuesday to reconsider its ruling allowing Oakland to sue the bank for millions of dollars the city has allegedly lost because of lending practices leading to widespread foreclosures on minority borrowers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two oranges. A bag of rice. A glossy red envelope. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Richmond man faces hate crime and battery charges after police said he followed an Asian woman into her El Cerrito garage, spit in her face and shouted race-based insults. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The University of San Francisco has expelled a student who admitted to hanging a noose on a residence hall balcony, campus officials said Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

University of San Francisco officials are investigating after a noose was found hanging off the balcony of a student dormitory last month. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Former San Francisco school board Vice President Alison Collins' multimillion-dollar lawsuit, claiming colleagues violated her freedom of speech by demoting her for tweets she posted in 2016 attacking Asian Americans, is drawing a skeptical response from legal commentators. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Judging by the latest polling, many Californians are scratching their heads over whether Gov. Gavin Newsom's uneven performance requires a remedy as radical as a recall. Enter Alison Collins, the San Francisco school board member who has in short order made herself one of the state's most eminently recallable politicians. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Fifteen people met in the deserted Willy Wong playground in Chinatown on March 18, heads bowed against the evening rain. They held a full minute of silence for eight victims, six of them women of Asian descent, of the mass shooting two days earlier in Atlanta. Then Forrest Liu, 27, broke the quiet to issue instructions to the assembled group. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Black man has filed a lawsuit against an Alameda County hotel, saying he was discriminated against and berated by a manager while talking on the phone in the hotel's parking lot during his stay there last year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jeremy Puckett spent almost 20 years behind bars for a killing he didn't commit. On Thursday, the state agreed to pay the 44-year-old Sacramento man close to $1 million for his lost time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The mass shooting in Georgia Tuesday "felt like a punch in the gut" for an Asian American community reeling from a surge in racism and violent attacks over the past year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As Marc Quidit lay in a trauma unit with four bullets in his lower body, his family gathered in their living room and wrestled with an expanding crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After roughly eight months of planning, San Francisco city leaders unveiled a road map Thursday to shift $60 million in local law enforcement funding into the city's Black neighborhoods over the next year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As Marc Quidit lay in a trauma unit with four bullets in his lower body, his family gathered in their living room and wrestled with an expanding crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California lawmakers approved $1.4 million in funding Monday that'll pay for the study and documentation of xenophobia and hate crimes against Asian Americans amid the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Asian American, Black and Hispanic lawmakers joined together Friday to demand action to respond to a disturbing increase in attacks on Asian Americans including in the Bay Area, saying the government needs to do more to stop the violence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As dusk fell on a chilly evening last October, a group of about 15 people converged in the parking lot of Oakland's Flax Art Supply. Spaced 6 feet apart, silhouetted by portable floodlights with rapper Yxng Bane blasting from Bluetooth speakers, they began to dance, moving with a fluid swagger that could make an audience forget they were wearing masks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Hundreds of San Francisco students gathered outside Lowell High School Friday afternoon to call for an end to merit-based admissions and to express outrage at what they said is a culture of racism fostered by administrators. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Now that the San Francisco school board has decreed that 44 public schools must be renamed because the figures or mythical entities they were named after do not meet our city's moral standards, the logical next step is to root out offensive street and place names. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Black owners of a Tiburon clothing shop who were questioned by white police officers while working late one night at their own store have filed a $2 million lawsuit for emotional distress they said they suffered from being subjected to racial profiling. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Black owners of a Tiburon clothing shop who were questioned by white police officers while working late one night at their own store have filed a $2 million lawsuit for emotional distress they said they suffered from being subjected to racial profiling. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A lesson on anti-racism at San Francisco's academically elite Lowell High School turned hateful and obscene Wednesday, with public posts spewing derogatory, anti-Semitic comments and racist messages about Black people. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The conversation about the "Future of SF" was supposed to be a small affair, just a few dozen people chatting on Clubhouse, the latest must-have, invite-only Silicon Valley app. That was according to the discussion's host, Michelle Tandler, who tweeted about the event to her 13,000 followers a day before. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The California District Attorneys Association, a statewide advocacy group for prosecutors, siphoned nearly $3 million that was supposed to be used for public-advocacy litigation and used it to fund training and lobbying, according to a recent audit of the group's finances. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Images from the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon were so startling that they were still being processed as the clock ticked toward Thursday morning some 2,400 miles from Washington, D.C. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Petaluma police said they were looking into a widely publicized incident at a craft store to find out whether a local couple were falsely accused by an internet influencer of trying to kidnap two of her children. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's board adopted a plan Tuesday to root out racism within the agency and declared "anti-Black racism" a human rights and public health crisis in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Three Black San Francisco employees filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the city, accusing agencies of failing to provide Black workers with equal employment opportunities and prevent discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pinterest shareholders sued the company in San Francisco federal court Monday, arguing a culture of harassment and discrimination has damaged the company's financial standing and reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The public's evolving views on criminal justice are one thing, and so are the election wins of a handful of progressive district attorneys. Now come the first tests of the strength of these changes: going after cops culpable in suspect shootings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Standing in front of nearly a dozen police officers dressed in riot gear, Jariell Jones gripped the blue megaphone as her hands trembled and took a deep breath. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The school board president of the Las Lomitas Elementary School District in Menlo Park resigned Sunday after an uproar caused by vulgar comments his wife made on social media about Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The head of Silicon Valley's chamber of commerce abruptly resigned Thursday after the organization posted a political advertisement to its website that its board members Executive Committee of the Board of Directors later called "blatantly racist." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco has been hit with another workplace race discrimination suit, this one by eight Black female employees of the Department of Public Health who said they were wrongly denied training and promotions granted to their co-workers and were subjected to a "hostile working environment." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed the Caren Act Tuesday - a new law that makes it illegal for someone to call 911 with a false, racially charged complaint. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Studies for many years have shown that minorities in California are more likely than whites to be stopped and arrested by police. A new report shows particularly wide disparities in police stops for "non-traffic infractions," like sitting on the sidewalk, loitering in public or jaywalking, all punishable by hundreds of dollars in fines and fees. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California sued Palo Alto on Tuesday over its more-than-50-year policy banning nonresidents from using bucolic Foothills Park, calling the prohibition "a legacy of the city's history of racial discrimination." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco is launching a program that aims to improve health outcomes for new Black and Pacific Islander mothers and their babies by providing no-strings-attached funding that can help eliminate the manifold stresses of financial insecurity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - California legislators approved a bill that would create a task force to study reparations for slavery for African Americans, a measure intended to eliminate disparities that linger more than 150 years after an economic and social system that kept Black people in bondage was banished. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]