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5 Black Mayoral Candidates Who Could Change the Game For November’s Presidential Election
Attention is on the national election, but these places are staging votes that could make the Black electorate even more important.
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What’s Happening With San Francisco’s Reparations Plan?
In March, San Francisco moved forward with a bold reparations plan that includes $5 million in payments to eligible Black San Franciscans. But what happens now?
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed Ordered to Provide Hotel Rooms for the City’s Homeless During Health Emergency
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, one issue has come up again and again: How do we best care for the nation’s homeless population? San Francisco lawmakers have taken a noble and aggressive approach to shelter the homeless in their city by ordering the mayor to lease thousands of hotel rooms to be used as safe…
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Housing as a Human Right: Movement Gains Steam in Los Angeles in Response to Pandemic
For years, a housing crisis in California has been coming to a head as skyrocketing rents have outpaced people’s wages. That crisis has led to a growing homeless population the state has struggled to assist. Now, with the coronavirus pandemic requiring Californians to “shelter-in-place,” homeless families find themselves running out of safe options. In response,…
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London Breed Plans to Use Her Historic Mayorship to Fight for Black San Francisco
London Breed is your homegirl’s favorite homegirl. The San Francisco native was raised by her grandmother in abject poverty. She lived in public housing, and her family of five survived on $900 a month and government-issued groceries. Even with the deck stacked against her, Breed managed to graduate high school with honors and went on…
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It’s Official: London Breed 1st Black Woman Elected Mayor of San Francisco
On Wednesday, after a neck and neck race in which thousands of provisional ballots needed to be counted, London Breed officially became the first black woman elected mayor of San Francisco after her opponent, fellow Democrat Mark Leno, conceded the primary race. The election, held June 5, was so tight that the San Francisco Department…
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London Breed Had a Clean Shot at Becoming San Francisco’s 1st Black Female Mayor; Then She Got Kneecapped by Her Colleagues
The same city that gave us Twitter, medical marijuana and one of the nation’s first openly gay elected officials just pulled a jack move on its first black female acting mayor. In a wild meeting marked by tearful comments from residents, the Board of Supervisors—San Francisco’s version of a city council—voted Tuesday night to oust…