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Shoppers converge at Stonestown Galleria during Black Friday on Nov. 25, 2016. Some SF State students were unable to spend time with their family during Thanksgiving, because they had to work early hours at Stonestown for Black Friday sales. (Steven Ho/Xpress)

Black Friday cuts into family time for working students

Kevin Vega Nov 25, 2016

The frenzied post-Thanksgiving shopping tradition called Black Friday, with its promise of door-busting sales and extended store hours, can be stressful for shoppers and retail employees alike. For...

A rally in solidarity for Standing Rock at City Hall on the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. (Xpress/Brenna Cruz)

Students join NoDAPL protest in downtown San Francisco

Kevin Vega Nov 15, 2016

Picket signs and burning sage filled downtown San Francisco as students and community members gathered in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the North Dakota Access Pipeline on Tuesday,...

Career fair normalizes work in the sex industry

Kevin Vega Nov 14, 2016

Dildos, pornography videos, self help sex books, goodie bags filled with condoms and lube lined the table at the entrance of the eighth annual Sexuality Career Fair. Hosted by the Education & Referral...

SF State health education major Damneet Kaur (left) and sociology major Radhika Mishra (right) talk to club members about creating a safe place on campus during the first Southeast Asian Breaking Barriers meeting in the Ethnic Studies Building room 116 on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. (Pablo Caballero/Xpress)

Students create safe space for South Asians

Kevin Vega Nov 1, 2016

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name "Radhika" as "Rhadika."   3rd paragraph "Rhadika" is spelled "Radhika" Music bounced off the walls and students filed into...

First-Generation voters prepare for Election Day

Kevin Vega Oct 26, 2016

In fifth grade, Iliana Jacobo helped her parents study for their American citizenship so they could live in the U.S. as free citizens. This year, Jacobo will see their hard work pay off as she votes alongside...

Ethnic Studies seeks funding in new grant application

Kevin Vega Oct 21, 2016

The College of Ethnic Studies has applied for a $100 million grant in hopes of expanding the College’s reach and impact. The 100&Change grant, provided by the MacArthur Foundation, is open to...

SF State’s Integrated Waste Management employee Eric Igtanloc moves compost

bins in front of the Administration Building on Tuesday, Sept 27, 2016.

SF State ranks low in sustainability

Kevin Vega Oct 4, 2016

In Sierra Magazine’s sustainable school ranking released in September, SF State fell in at nearly last place, taking the 182nd spot of the 202 schools on the list. Ranks were determined by looking at...

 Kevin “Mooshka” Catawho talks to David Kertzman about his kachinas at the reception of the When I Remember, I See Red exhibit at the Fine Arts Gallery on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016.

Survey of Native American art arrives, two decades in the making

Kevin Vega Sep 27, 2016

Wood sculptures and imagery of tribes at war fill the Fine Arts Gallery in “When I Remember I See Red,” the first historical survey of works by 36 contemporary Native American artists in California...

Kanye perpetuates colorism with latest project

Kanye perpetuates colorism with latest project

Kevin Vega Sep 21, 2016

[media-credit name="Screenshot of casting call tweet by Kanye West" align="alignnone" width="441"][/media-credit] Earlier this month, Kanye West tweeted a casting call asking for “multiracial women...

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