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Our publisher’s ‘must-read’ history of US protests is out now!

48 Hills - July 7, 2020

"Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States" by 48 Hills publisher and arts editor Marke B is...

News + Politics

OPINION: Defunding the police is just one step

Paul Boden, Molly Beckhardt, and Erin Goodling - July 1, 2020

Black Lives Matter and other abolitionist groups are leading communities across the country to recognize that the criminal justice system is a powerhouse of...

Lit

A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’

Emily Wilson - June 30, 2020

Aya de León, author and lecturer in the African American Studies department at UC Berkeley, reads a lot of books to her 10-year-old daughter....

Opinion

Pride is a defense of Black bodies, and always has been

Carolyn Wysinger - June 25, 2020

This year is Pride 50 — or it was supposed to be. When San Francisco Pride, for which I am President of the Board of...

Movies

Looking for a hot gay connection? ‘Ask Any Buddy’

Johnny Ray Huston - June 24, 2020

As titles go, Ask Any Buddy is evocative. On its surface, it brings up the idea of acquiring knowledge or answers through communication with...

Lit

In Phuc Tran’s memoir: grammar, tattoos, and the refugee experience

Emily Wilson - June 24, 2020

When Phuc Tran, who will be in conversation with author Viet Thanh Nguyen this Fri/26 evening, was asked to do a TEDx talk a...

Arts + Culture

A renowned shop says ‘no’ to reopening just yet

Marke B. - June 15, 2020

Despite a surge of cases in the Bay Area, San Francisco seems full steam ahead on reopening its businesses and services. This weekend bars...

Business + Tech

The plutonium of Artificial Intelligence could be coming to a city near you

Tim Kingston - June 10, 2020

Of all the tools of mass surveillance deployed by law enforcement, private industry and the federal government, Facial Recognition Technology poses by far the...

Culture

How teachers leapt inequity hurdles when COVID shut schools

Emily Wilson - June 4, 2020

Reynaldo Dulaney, who teaches Ethnic Studies, Leadership, and Advanced Placement US History at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School, says the quick switch from teaching...

Art

See Black Women emphasizes ‘who gets counted,’ in Census and beyond

Emily Wilson - May 25, 2020

A two-part conversation called See Black Women, part of Art+Action’s Come to Your Census campaign, is calling attention to Black women's often overlooked contributions to...

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