By Olivia Wynkoop. Bay City News.
On the steps of City Hall, leading Black leaders and city officials joined together Wednesday to clarify how the city's fentanyl crisis disproportionately affects Black San Franciscans.
At National Fentanyl Awareness Day, Phelicia Jones, founder of Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community, took the podium to say she's tired of seeing the city's deadly fentanyl epidemic follow an all-too-familiar pattern of homelessness and job insecurity, with San Francisco's Black population bearing the brunt.
In the first three months of this year, 200 people have died from overdoses, which represents an increase of 41 percent compared to the same period last year, according to