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“Greenleaf” is currently one of OWN’s most popular dramas on TV right now. Actor and model William H. Bryant Jr. has had the good fortune to star on the hit show. The Bay Area native previously had set his sights on a professional football career. A star athlete as a child, he played college football while…

Lena Waithe secretly tied the knot. The “Westworld” actress and her partner Alana Mayo tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in San Francisco recently, almost two years after they got engaged, in a spur-of-the-moment decision. Appearing in “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Waithe told guest host John Legend: “We snuck and did it. We didn’t really make…

A young White boy cried and repeatedly yanked on his father in a futile plea to convince him not to call the police on a Black man who was entering an apartment building they were leaving. The Black man, 35-year-old software engineer Wesly Michel, recorded the White father as he asked Michel what he was…

A disgraced San Francisco cop fired over racist text messages is now a criminal behind bars. Rain Olson Daugherty has been fighting his termination from the police force since 2015. At the time investigators uncovered a group of officers sending text messages that included talk of burning crosses, killing Blacks and homophobic remarks. Daugherty and…

DeWayne Johnson, 46, used the weed killer Roundup as part of his daily job for years. Until he found it gave him terminal cancer. He sued the Monsanto, the makers of Roundup and won a $289 million judgment against the company in August 2018. A San Francisco jury found that Monsanto knew or should have…

Black Twitter routinely stalks its electronic prey — enemies, real and imagined — with ruthless abandon and rips apart their carcasses until virtually nothing is left to even sweep into a dustpan. Alison Ettel, now known across the internet as #PermitPatty, is next in line after a video, in which she claimed to call police…

Police in Northern California are reportedly responding on Tuesday afternoon to a possible shooter at the headquarters of YouTube in San Bruno, California, officials said according to the Los Angeles Times and BBC News. Police are advising people in a Twitter message to stay far from the address where YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google,…

For many people, it is believed moving from a small town to the big city will allow their dreams to come true, but for hair stylist Trashauna Spencer, aka Bella B, it was the total opposite. Hailing from the San Francisco Bay area, Bella B moved to Montgomery, Alabama to attend college at Alabama State University.…

While the ladies attempt to make sense of what happened between Kim and Kenya at the white party, Sheree continues to play her peacemaker role and decides to bring the housewives together in San Francisco for a little rest and relaxation. Here are the top highlights from season 10, episode five. Team Zolciak-Biermann vs. Team…

The city of San Francisco has been plagued with a series of racially charged incidents that has led to the resignation of its chief of police. Yesterday SFPD Police Chief Greg Suhr stepped down from his position at the request of Mayor Ed Lee. The resignation came hours after a Black woman was killed by…

There is nothing wrong with being a super-fan of your favorite artist but sometimes people can take things too far. Take the case of San Francisco based rapper Kreayshawn. After going on a Twitter rant and explaining that the IRS “wiped (her) whole bank account clean. 4 days before X-mas” and leaving her with literally $0 in…

San Francisco police killed a disturbed Black man holding a knife on a busy sidewalk. At least 10 officers surrounded and opened fire on the dazed looking man, killing him. The man was a suspect in a nearby stabbing. Some are calling the shooting an excessive use of force.

Watch as President Obama gives possible 2020 presidential hopeful Kanye West hilarious advice on running for the office at a fundraiser on Oct. 10 for the Democratic National Committee in San Francisco.

With the passing of Larry “Doc” Elliot, our community has lost a positive voice from the airwaves of many popular radio stations around the country. Doc died on Aug. 13, just five days shy of his birthday in hospice care in his birth state of Mississippi. He was blessed to transition with his family by his side.…

PUSH Tech 2020, a one-day conference created by Rainbow Push, filled the Hyatt Regency San Francisco with a multitude of corporate executives, venture capitalists, app developers, ad agencies, media and others, for the purpose of creating new connections and learning ways to do business with the top tech companies in the world, including Intel, Apple, HP,…

San Francisco’s Hawthorn nightclub recently played host to the Hennessy Privilège Series featuring popular tastemaker Tristan Walker. Walker, CEO and founder of Walker & Company, parent company for Bevel (who counts Nas among it’s investors), teamed with Hennessy to highlight individuals who are breaking barriers for African Americans, as well as the reinvention and broadening of men’s fashion and lifestyle. “Our team…

A 6.0 earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay and Oakland area early Sunday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake hit just before 3:30 a.m. It is the largest earthquake to shake the area since 1989. The earthquake set off car alarms and had people running from their homes in the…

Jeffrey Bugai

San Francisco police authorities have arrested security guard Jeffrey Bugai for impersonating a police officer. What makes his arrest so disturbing is the fact that he was using his fake identity as a cop to allegedly sodomize Central American immigrants. Police have stated that Bugai specifically went after men who spoke poor or little English…

Jessica Urbina, 18, wore a tuxedo for her senior portrait. Administrators at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School in San Francisco didn’t take too kindly to the act and left her out of the yearbook. Friends at the school feel she was the victim of discrimination and have waged a Twitter campaign using the hashtag #JessicasTux and…

This week, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America inducted the 2014 Class into its Alumni Hall of Fame at its 108th National Conference at a ceremony hosted by actor and Boys & Girls Clubs alumnus Courtney B. Vance in San Francisco. Victor Cruz and Nick Cannon join an impressive group of politicians, professional athletes and business…