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America is still fighting Jim Crow and racism
Walter Riley fought segregation in the Jim Crow South. The civil rights lawyer and activist talks about how sixty years later, he is still fighting.

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Betty Reid Soskin, 99, a historian, activist, an author of her 2018 memoir, Sign My Name to Freedom, poses for a portrait on Friday, May 14, 2021, in Richmond, Calif. She is the oldest national park ranger at the Rosie the Riveter National Historic Park.

Lift Every Voice

Lift Every Voice

Lessons from their legacies

Bay Area Black elders sit down with young journalists of color to share stories of the past, offer visions for the future and reflect on being Black in America.

Chronicle Documentaries

Eric Lawson, right, holds a photo of his late father-in-law Vicha Ratanapakdee as he stands with wife Monthanus while attending "Love our People: Heal our Communities" rally at Civic Center Plaza in condemnation of the recent increase in violence towards the Asian American community around the Bay Area in San Francisco, California Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. The elder Ratanapakdee, 84, was assaulted in broad daylight on Jan. 28 while out on a morning walk in the city's Anza Vista neighborhood whom later succumb to the head injuries

There’s been a surge of attacks against Asian Americans.

Anti-Asian bias has a history in the U.S. — and in Bay Area

By Janelle Bitker

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Coronavirus Pandemic
Before It Was Them, Now It’s Us
San Francisco’s poorer neighborhoods have long suffered: pollution, nuclear contamination, substandard housing, divestment and institutional racism. In the Bayview, a neighborhood with a strong...

By Lizzie Johnson

Chronicle Documentaries

Chronicle Documentaries

The Evidence Burns Away: To catch suspected arsonist, officials had to do the unthinkable

As California’s wildfire crisis exploded, the state assigned 30 officers to follow a suspected arsonist and blend into his community. Could they thwart disaster?

California Wildfires

2020 In Review

06:23

Resilience: The 2020 San Francisco Chronicle Visuals Team
Chronicle photojournalists took more than 100,000 photos this year. These are the stories behind the pictures that most moved them.

Vanishing Violence: Tracking California’s remarkable collapse in youth crime

Serious youth crime has fallen off drastically since the 1990s, leaving juvenile halls emptied. So why is California still spending so much?

Investigations