God on Wall Street In 2017, Drew Gilpin Faust, then President of Harvard University, drew national acclaim when she presented to the academic world a conference...
Announcement follows Newsom’s May budget revision, which includes $1 billion to fight California’s homelessness crisis Governor Gavin Newsom, in a visit to Oakland this week, announced...
God on Wall Street In an overwhelming move towards racial justice, the undergraduate student body at Georgetown University voted to pay reparations to the descendants of...
The “whatever it takes” approach to addressing homelessness in Marin County is working. By prioritizing the most vulnerable residents for stable supportive housing, the Marin County...
The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office will soon implement a restorative justice diversion program for youth, becoming the fourth county in the state to adopt...
This week marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous Supreme Court decision that outlawed apartheid in America, declaring segregated schools “inherently...
Despite a long history of segregation and racism, America’s top pageants have broken racial barriers in recent decades. Vanessa Williams became the first Black woman to...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on the passage of the FY2020 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill...
Children and families gathered for a rally Wednesday in Oakland to call attention to the injustice of the bail and pretrial detention system as part of...
Judge Damon J. Keith died April 28 at the age of 96. The Detroit native, one of the nation’s longest-serving federal judges, was a tireless champion...