As fans everywhere looked to San Diego early Tuesday evening during this city’s relished turn at hosting Major League Baseball’s annual All-Star Game, three words that have nothing to do with America’s favorite pastime, but everything to do with America in 2016 permeated the air inside and outside Petco Park. Those words, of course: “Black…
The 46th Annual SF LGBT Pride Celebration takes place June 25 and 26 at Civic Center Plaza. Sunday’s festivities will include more than 20 community-produced stages and venues. The Parade will kick-off at 10:30 am on Sunday, June 26 along Market Street, from Beale to 8th Streets. The SF Pride Grandstands are located toward the…
San Francisco Pride has announced the winners of the 2016 Public and Member’s Choice Vote for Community and Organizational Grand Marshals of the 2016 San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade. Larry Yang has been chosen as the Community Grand Marshal. A teacher of meditation and mindfulness, Yang is committed to serving multicultural, queer and…
As Black History Month is winding down, Media Matters for America (MMA) looked at Fox News coverage for the past few weeks. It’s pretty grim as MMA reports, “… Fox News has spent February peddling racist tropes about the black community. Fox personalities and guests repeated racist canards about black-on-black crime, out-of-wedlock births, and “black behavior,” mocked a…
