RICHMOND — A year after parents complained about their children’s experiencing anti-Black racism in the West Contra Costa Unified School District, the school board has adopted a new district policy …
OAKLAND — Kenzie Smith, a Black community leader in Oakland whose 2018 run-in with a white woman shed light on the country’s racial tensions, died over the weekend. He was …
Nathan Hare, a sociologist who helped lead a five-month strike by faculty and students at what is now San Francisco State University, resulting in an agreement in 1969 to create …
By SHAANTH NANGUNERI | CalMatters One by one, a California prosecutor eliminated five out of six Black women from the jury pool for a death penalty case in which a …
Last week at a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris said that on June 19, 1865, after Union troops arrived in Galveston, …
BY KHARI JOHNSON | CalMatters In 2019 and 2020, three Black men were accused of, and jailed for, crimes they didn’t commit after police used face recognition to falsely identify …
Alfred Lubrano | The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) Jun. 10—Nearly 80% of Americans (79%) say that what they read online can contain “false or fake” information that’s deliberately disseminated “to confuse” …
By Christopher Weber and Travis Loller | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from …
California’s public schools will be required to offer a full-year course in ethnic studies beginning in the 2025-26 school year. And by 2030, students won’t be able to graduate without …
By Eric Bradner | CNN A producer for “The Apprentice” is claiming that former President Donald Trump used the N-word during the show’s filming — and it was recorded on …