NNPA NEWSWIRE — The August 10 “When Good People Write Bad Policy” panel event urged lawmakers to study the effects of a menthol ban by launching a...
Last week, hundreds of community leaders, advocates, and organizers representing labor, faith-based, Black, AAPI, Latinos, women and youth rally and march were held at the State...
Twenty-five years ago, UC Berkeley Professor Harley Shaiken could not know the future that awaited undergraduate Julie Chavez Rodriguez. But even then, he was struck by...
Food security advocates, policymakers, and others had been warning of the dire consequences to those most in need if Congress chose to halt the extra allotments...
This week in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated leading a bold effort to teach America an urgent lesson: racism is not just...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Unlike one hundred years ago, we know what’s coming and what we can do to stop such actions. We know that from the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In August, Congress repealed section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which provided funding and authorization for the federal government...
Voting has not always been a given, in fact, just the opposite has been the practice in society for the marginalized. In the midst of so...
According to officials at Covered California, monthly premiums for insurance coverage could jump by as much as 100% — or an average of about $70 —...
Systemic racism, a history of racist policies, and racist social structures all contribute to Black women and Black men experiencing intimate partner violence at a disproportionately...
California was among the first states to start tracking racial data to determine why the disease, based on early infection patterns, was disproportionately impacting Blacks, Latinos...
“We, as a community, should hold everybody to task around the issue of equity,” West Oakland community leader and environmental advocate Margaret Gordon said. “The A’s...
This time, the plaintiffs were smart. They recruited disgruntled recently immigrated Asian Americans who had been rejected from Harvard and organized them as white proxies. With...
The awards provided through the DICR program are unique in cancer research. They provide a large amount of salary support for the four colleges to select...
Gonzales said she authored AB 701 to help decrease worker injury, encourage more transparency, and end the use of production quotas at corporations and government agencies,...
The majority say they approve of how Newsom handled schools this year.
Does California have a “legacy of unequal treatment” of minorities and women? That’s language from Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5 (ACA-5) introduced by Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) estimated that as many as 95% Black-owned businesses stood no chance of securing a program loan. Other...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to the Census Bureau post-enumeration survey, 800,000 African Americans went uncounted. What does this mean? It means once again, the voice of...
OAKLAND POST — African American contractors and construction workers are opposing a proposal that has been presented to the City Council requiring that all jobs on...
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — The conversation surrounding Latinos regarding ethnicity vs. race is an ongoing theme. Cardi B, a Black Latina who speaks Spanish, set...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Now is also a time to remember that regardless of race or ethnicity, our history chronicles the range of hate crimes that have...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — On his regular rounds at the University of Southern California's Keck Hospital, Dr. David Armstrong lives a brutal injustice of American health care....
WASHINGTON INFORMER — A District-headquartered employees’ union has launched an interactive campaign to engage young people of color ahead of the 2020 election. The initiative of the...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — The LAPD uses a number of predictive programs to focus crime-fighting efforts in certain neighborhoods and on specific chronic offenders by analyzing data,