2+ week, 3+ day ago   (628+ words) It’s easy to recognize injustice when it comes from the other side. Democrats are comfortable identifying racism and inequity in Republican politics. The harder test is whether we recognize inequity when it operates through our own institutions, among people we…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (652+ words) The American Dream has always been sold as an installment plan: work hard, save something, buy a home, educate your children, retire with dignity and, with a little luck, leave the next generation better off than you were. Black people…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (493+ words) Questions about election security, voter access and public confidence in elections have become some of the most closely watched issues in American politics. This November, California voters will weigh in on those debates through Proposition 39, a ballot measure that would…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1217+ words) Two years ago, California hit a milestone decades in the making: Nearly every person in the state qualified for health insurance, regardless of immigration status and income, pushing the state’s insured rate to a record 95%. Now that progress is unravelling....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (849+ words) With less than three months until the general election, Darius Kemp, executive director of California Common Cause, says California must protect both election security and voter access for the state’s approximately 23 million eligible voters. Kemp delivered that message during a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1118+ words) Sacramento businesses that paid tariffs on imported goods may now be able to recover thousands of dollars. This follows a Supreme Court ruling in February that struck down a major group of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (766+ words) Over the last six years, the Black Freedom Fund (BFF) has expanded its reach as a support system for California’s Black-serving organizations, providing a boost to many groups that could be locked out of funding as federal government and corporate…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (734+ words) With just over three months before the midterm elections, the NAACP at its 117th annual convention in Chicago announced an unprecedented $20 million voter registration campaign ahead of the midterm elections. The announcement kicked off the NAACP’s national convention at McCormick Place…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (907+ words) California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and top election officials in three other states have until July 31 to tell the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whether they will cooperate with a federal effort to identify and remove alleged noncitizens from…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (668+ words) Nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state’s June primary, a spike from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting participation and counting every ballot. According to state…...