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    Aug 1

    Professional News Alert: I’m now writing a column for the / about Black culture in the Bay Area. I’m talking everything from sideshows & music to race & identity. First up: MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS NEED MORE BLACK FILM CRITICS

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    15 hours ago

    SCOOP: More than 100 immigrants were pepper sprayed at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana this weekend, according to a source w/ knowledge of the matter. Story:

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    17 hours ago

    I wrote the obit for her. "Toni Morrison synthesized all of her early experiences to create a radical and expansive topography of African American life. In doing so, she became the most important American writer of her generation."

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    18 hours ago

    Toni Morrison is gone and the world got less brilliant.

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    17 hours ago

    “I read all the time, but I was never in those books. Or if I was, it was as a joke...without the main character looking like me. So I decided that I would write the book that I really and truly wanted to read.” — Toni Morrison, who has died at 88

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    17 hours ago

    watching everyone celebrate toni morrison is really beautiful

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    18 hours ago

    Toni Morrison has died, at eighty-eight. In 2017, she wrote about the lessons her father taught her about work: “Go to work. Get your money. And come on home," he said.

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  8. Aug 5

    Isla Vida represented a new wave of Caribbean restaurants in the city. Not to mention it was the most notable business to open in the historically black Fillmore neighborhood in years. It closed after less than a year.

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  9. Aug 5

    “If Biscuits and Blues closes, a place that gave so many artists a stage and means so much to the community, you’re removing an important piece of San Francisco...It’s something we could never get back.”

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    Aug 1

    Oakland’s two-year increase of its homeless population was among the biggest of any CA city. There are an estimated 742 unsheltered homeless people for every 100,000 residents. The rate is four times higher than San Diego’s and 27% higher than SF's.

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    Aug 1

    “I know business is business but did they have to be so careless, so callous?” Former Dean & DeLuca employees say the company promised and then revoked final paychecks

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    Jul 31

    Last month, the Chronicle dispatched 36 journalists across San Francisco to document the homeless crisis over a 24-hour period. What we found will shock you, break your heart and give you hope.

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    Jul 29

    Today, a story that I've been working on for months finally publishes. I took a look at what happens to some people after they use Homeward Bound, a city program that gives one-way bus tickets to homeless people out of San Francisco.

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    Jul 29

    Gun store that sold rifle to Santino LeGan posted on Facebook questioning federal gun purchase age of 18 years old: “We feel so sorry for the Families of the CA shooting. May the POS rest in Hell. Maybe people need to be 21 to buy?”

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    Jul 29

    Stephen Romero just turned 6 at the end of June. To his tío, he was "el romántico," a loving, sensitive and empathetic kid. And he would've seen Sunday's shooting as "unfair" to any other child caught in the crossfire. With for :

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    Jul 28

    Michael Paz, Gilroy Festival hat vendor, was about 80 ft from shooter who he described as in his 30s w/ a rifle: "He came ready to shoot because he was wearing a protective vest. He was shooting left; he was shooting right without any particular aim"

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    Jul 28

    Marked and unmarked law enforcement patrol cars have sped past this closed road at Miller and W. Luchessa avenues. At least one CHP helicopter has been hovering above the festival grounds following today’s shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. – at Gilroy Garlic Festival

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    Jul 28

    I’m at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center right now. Two police officers are guarding the ER’s doors, and people can be seen crying and embracing both inside and outside the hospital. Here’s what we know of the Gilroy shooting: What we know right now

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    Jul 26

    The owner of Cosecha has accused a server at another Swan's Market restaurant of battery and sexual harassment. But other workers say it's not true. And now there's video of the incident.

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    Jul 25

    NEW: A 44-year-old Mexican man died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Georgia on Wednesday, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Story:

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