California voters will decide whether or not to go tougher on crime through a November ballot initiative that makes changes to previous propositions and bills designed...
Ahead of the November election, a group of dialysis nurses and patients have come out in strong opposition to Proposition 23. If passed, Prop. 23 would...
Aja Smith, a Black Republican running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, has filed a complaint against Facebook, Twitter, and Google. In her...
Two years after California lawmakers passed the first consumer data privacy act in the country, voters have a chance to expand the law or leave it as it is....
Sean Broadus and his brother Evan Broadus live near the Gilbert Lindsay Community Center in South Central, Los Angeles, less than 20 minutes from where their...
Isaiah Thornton Montgomery (1874–1924) was born on Davis Bend, a Mississippi plantation was owned by Joseph Davis. Isaiah’s father, Benjamin Montgomery, managed the Davis plantation until...
California is expanding aid and protections to health care workers as the COVID-19 pandemic continues through two new laws and an executive order. Late last month,...
A common misconception of the criminal justice system is that it is as simple as guilty people admitting their guilt and innocent people going free. The...
This is a big election year. With all eyes on the presidential race, Californians can’t afford to lose sight of its state and local elections. These decisions need the same amount of consideration being given...
When you get your California election ballot soon – that’s if you don’t have it already –expect to see Kanye West’s name on it. The 43-year-old rapper and business mogul is...
Most small businesses in California are very small. A whopping 95% of them are companies with less than 50 employees, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. Yet, these...
Local labor and community leaders are denouncing ride-hailing corporation Lyft for funding a campaign to unseat Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan, who has a strong record for backing...
On Sept.29 Mayor London Breed announced that San Francisco churches could gather in person in accordance with the state health regulations. Allowing no more than 25%...
2020 is a big election year. With all eyes on the presidential race, Californians can’t afford to lose sight of our state and local elections. These decisions need the same amount of consideration being given...
H.R. 5309 also known as the CROWN (Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair) Act passed in the United States House of Representatives. The...
On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom nominated Martin Jenkins, a San Francisco native, and a former prosecutor and judge, to the California Supreme Court. If confirmed, Jenkins, 66, would be the third African American to...
With most of the conversation around the COVID-19 pandemic focused on relief within the next few months, some activists and researchers are looking to the future, asking: What should “back to normal” look...
Assembly Bill (AB) 3121 moves descendants of enslaved Americans one step closer to getting restitution for centuries of free labor and legal discrimination that followed it,...
This November’s general election is set to be historic, not just because of the presidential race at a time when the American electorate is unusually polarized....
Celebrated writer James McBride will see his award-winning book, turned miniseries, “The Good Lord Bird,” make its cable broadcast debut on the Showtime Network, starring Ethan...
The first presidential debate on Tuesday night left little room for policy issues as President Donald Trump interrupted Former VP Joe Biden and at times, talked...
Assemblymember Jim Cooper (D-Sacramento), who is a member of the California Legislative Black Caucus, says he supports Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order issued last week that phases...
In the wake of recent calls to shift responsibility for non-violent intervention away from police departments, lawmakers and community advocates around California are calling on Gov....
When Dr. Andrea Goings launched her mobile medical service, offering at–home doctor visits and virtual consultation sessions via video in 2016 in the Los Angeles area, she did not know that just four years later her business model would be more...
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law that expand mental health coverage in California. “The bills I am signing today will help Californians access the behavioral health...
