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On Juneteenth, Black leaders detail lingering obstacles to change

Tom Molanphy - June 19, 2020

On June 19, 1865, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army arrived in Galveston and issued...

Culture

Score new music on Juneteenth—and support NAACP Legal Fund

John-Paul Shiver - June 17, 2020

Once again leaping to action when leaders, politicians, and other music platforms continually remain tone-deaf and tardy in response, Bandcamp will be donating 100...

Onstage

Reviving Pride’s protest origins, with ‘The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’

Emily Wilson - June 16, 2020

Last year, the Tenderloin Museum hosted 22 sold-out performances of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. One of the writers, Donna Personna, saw about half of...

Boy bands to bomba: Fresh Meat Fest shines with trans & queer performance

Marke B. - June 15, 2020

I'm writing this as I'm taking in the Supreme Court decision that people cannot be legally fired for being LGBTQ, a momentous act that...

Culture

This year, the giant Pink Triangle bursts into 2700 twinkling lights

Joshua Rotter - June 12, 2020

Other cities have their Pride parades, rainbow flags, and disco ball balloons. Only San Francisco has the Pink Triangle. Over the past 25 years, San...

New Music: Five revitalizing mixes to fortify your spirit

John-Paul Shiver - June 11, 2020

With so much in the world to process these days, let's just listen. Fight The Power, People. https://soundcloud.com/crackmagazine/sunday-mix-emma-jean-thackray EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY, "CRACK MAGAZINE SUNDAY MIX" Emma-Jean Thackray wears many...

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

We’re Still Here: Queer orgs and icons put on online pre-Pride shebang

Marke B. - June 9, 2020

Thanks to COVID, Pride has been scooped up online this year, boooo. But while that may mean you'll be proudly dancing alone in your...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Black history and protest films to stream now

Dennis Harvey - June 7, 2020

As public outrage towards police violence against the Black community (like the gun control movement) has too often seemed to wane in the Trump...

Foreign Correspondent

The rest of the world sees uprisings, not riots

Reese Erlich - June 5, 2020

One of Germany's largest dailies ran the headline “This killer cop set America ablaze,” with a photo of the Minneapolis police officer who killed...

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On Juneteenth, Black leaders detail lingering obstacles to change

Score new music on Juneteenth—and support NAACP Legal Fund

Reviving Pride’s protest origins, with ‘The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’

Boy bands to bomba: Fresh Meat Fest shines with trans & queer performance

This year, the giant Pink Triangle bursts into 2700 twinkling lights

New Music: Five revitalizing mixes to fortify your spirit

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

We’re Still Here: Queer orgs and icons put on online pre-Pride shebang

Screen Grabs: Black history and protest films to stream now

The rest of the world sees uprisings, not riots

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