On Tuesday, September 21, 2021, Oakland’s city council approved the implementation of a fifth police academy. This decision came after the city experienced its 100th homicide of the year. The measure passed with a 6-2 majority vote, with council President Nikki Fortunato Bas and council member Carroll Fife voting against the measure. Both Bas and […]
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What’s Behind the Racial Wealth Gap?
Standing in front of the steps of the Washington Monument in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. declared, “America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’” King used this metaphor in his famed “I Have a Dream” speech. Perhaps more revealing than Dr. King’s quote, […]
BLM Galvanizes LA Voters in Contentious District Attorney Race
The police have killed 861 people in 2020. Black Americans, despite accounting for 13 percent of the United States’ population, represent 28 percent of those killed by law enforcement. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. Rayshard Brooks. Elijah McClain. Breonna Taylor. George Floyd. There are countless others, whose names we saw plastered in the news and on […]
Between the Lines
What Underhandedly Racist Comments Sound Like and Why They Call for Self-Reflection Although slavery was abolished in 1865, its long-lasting impact is still felt in 2020. However, the difference between 1865 and 2020 is that racism is not as blatant. Racism has diverted away from textbook imagery and is now predominantly emulated through implicit biases […]