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 …
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 …
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 …
Many women and minorities find themselves unable to evade pervasive bias in our justice system. A bill concerning equal justice for women and minorities in the courts was recently passed …
Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo has introduced a bill seeking reparations for the families who lost their homes decades ago when Los Angeles city leaders pressured them to sell their land – …
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX | Associated Press WASHINGTON — With abortion rights poised to be one of the major issues in the 2024 election, a new poll shows that Asian …
Sandra Mendez Duran was studying at UC Riverside when she noticed two names in a book: Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez. Duran was familiar with the names — they were her …
By JULIE WATSON | Associated Press California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice …