ARTICLES' ARCHIVE
The Machine in the Ledger
They built San Francisco’s Black housing legacy with Sunday-school money and sweat equity. Now its elders are facing eviction over debts no one can document
“Do Not Delete or Destroy”: SFUSD Tells Every Employee It Is Under Federal Investigation — Four Months After the Letter Arrived
Superintendent Maria Su’s all-staff email confirms a U.S. Department of Justice Title IX review of gender and sexuality instruction, warns that employees’ identities may be
They Built It. Now They’re Fighting to Stay: Inside San Francisco’s Crisis of Accountability in Black Affordable Housing
At a City Hall hearing, residents of historic Fillmore housing developments described disputed evictions, inaccessible homes, missing financial records, questionable rent accounting and years of
THE OCTOBER 1 TEST
Will San Francisco Demand Answers—or Stage Another Hearing? A cooperative built to keep Black families in the Fillmore is now sending its elders eviction notices.
Two Buildings, One Blueprint
THE PRICE OF BEING POOR – PART 13 Plaza East warned us. Alice Griffith confirmed it. Now the man who has lived inside both stories
Suspended in Silence
The data they refuse to release: Coleman Advocates’ “Stop Suspending Our Success” campaign confronts SFUSD’s discriminatory suspension regime — and five years of records the
A Question of Competence
Dr. Vidrale Franklin was removed from her principalship after an investigation this newsroom has documented as procedurally irregular and, in appearance, discriminatory. A former President
San Francisco’s Chief Public Defender Mano Raju is a ‘Modern Day Legend’
How Mano Raju — the son of Tamil immigrants, the courtroom gladiator his colleagues once dubbed “The Not Guilty Machine,” and California’s only elected public
Vidrale Franklin & SFUSD: The Unquiet Resignation – Part 2
Separate and Unequal: How the Lowell Baseball Scandal, the Bayview Extraction, and SFUSD’s Seventy-Year Segregation Doctrine Betray Every BIPOC Child in San Francisco SPECIAL INVESTIGATION