By Edward Henderson | California Black Media Last week, the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom released a list of bills from the current legislative session that...
By Ken Epstein Oakland school board candidates seeking to halt the annual ritual of closing neighborhood schools and years of cutting budgets for classroom programs are...
OAKLAND POST — “This past year, California has been able to move 58,000 individuals off our streets and into the housing and treatment they desperately needed,”...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — The bill, SB 58, introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would create a five-year pilot program beginning in 2022 that would allow...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — A version of the bill was passed by the Legislature last year but was vetoed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Defendants charged with certain non-violent crimes should be presumptively released. But there are a small number of crimes which we believe prosecutors should...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Restaurants in much of Los Angeles County will soon be restricted from distributing plastic straws to customers who don’t ask for them.
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — Planning is underway for the 34th annual Kingdom Day Parade to be held Jan. 21 in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — African Americans usually vote overwhelmingly for the Democratic Party, but that doesn’t mean they are always in line with Democratic state issues.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The FCC voted last December to repeal Obama-era protections and the net neutrality rules, approved by the same organization two years earlier, prohibited...
