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The SF art gallery owner and prosecutors agreed to a pre-trial diversion program.

Meeting Martin Luther King set Amos Brown on a lifelong path to advancing social justice.

(RNS) — ‘We’ve got to act and stop just talking, not just saying we are sad,’ Brown said.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Gospel reading at the Third Baptist Church on this cool early-summer Sunday is from Luke, who relates the story of a meeting between Jesus and a

After two years of discussion, a California task force released its final list of proposed reparations for African Americans and it included more than 100...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Gospel reading at the Third Baptist Church on this cool early-summer Sunday is from Luke, who relates the story of a meeting between Jesus and a particularly avaricious tax collec...

Through one historic Black church in San Francisco, the struggle for acknowledgment and now recompense can be traced back decades.

A fight among family members, and some perceived disrespect from a pastor toward Banko Brown's recently incarcerated mother, led to a fracas at Third Baptist Church Thursday morning. And the funeral was, as a result, quickly wrapped up with no family members getting to speak.

“Oliver Wendell Holmes said: ‘Many of us die with our music still in us.’ Banko died; music still in him.”

Several lessons emerged from California’s first-of-its-kind reparations task force, despite personal and ideological divisions that remain about its work.