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Iris Shun-Ru Chang (traditional Chinese: 張純如; March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was an American journalist, historian, and political activist.She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanjing Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, and in 2003, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History.
Florence Fang (Chinese: 方李邦琴; born 1933/1934) is a Chinese-American businesswoman, publisher, and philanthropist active in the San Francisco area.She is the former owner of the San Francisco Examiner and other media titles and has been a fund-raiser for the Republican Party.
Tsen Shui Fang was one of her most trusted assistants. Together, and with a small Chinese staff, they transformed the women’s college into a refugee camp for women and children. Despite personal risk, these two women protected over 10,000 refugees in the camp they established, originally designed to house only 2,750. [7]
The Rev. Cecil Williams, who with his late wife turned Glide Church in San Francisco into a world-renowned haven for people suffering from poverty and homelessness and living on the margins, has died.
Williams was the creator and producer of the first Miss Black San Francisco pageants in 1977, 1978, and 1979 to recognize the beauty of African American women. Her relationships with young single mothers of the southeastern community of Bayview Hunters Point, illuminated the need for more self-esteem and self-empowerment of young black women.
San Francisco rent The median rent for an apartment in San Francisco is over $3,300, according to Zillow , which is around 120% higher than the national median of $1,515.
How Nancy Pelosi went from San Francisco housewife to the most powerful woman in US politics Mariana Alfaro,Grace Panetta,Taylor Ardrey,Hanna Kang,Kayla Gallagher,Sonam Sheth April 16, 2023 at 1:08 PM
Stanford ran one of San Francisco's more notorious brothels. [3] San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote "the United Nations was founded at Sally Stanford's whorehouse" because of the number of delegates to the organization's 1945 San Francisco founding conference who were Stanford's customers; [3] many actual, if informal, negotiating sessions took place in the brothel's living room.