In today’s “State of the State,” Amanda and Supreme discuss the issues with Gov. Newsom ticketing the homeless in California — who’s paying the bill?! Homelessness is unfortunately an issue affecting us on a global scale, but California specifically is in a particular state of crisis as nearly 30% of all homelessness in America is accredited […]
Former Black-Owned Beachfront In California Has Been Legally Returned To Descendants After 100 Years
California Governor Gavin Newsom has officially enacting a bill that will return the rights of a formerly Black-owned beachfront illegally seized a century ago back to the living heirs of Willa and Charles Bruce.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will develop a detailed plan for reparations under a new law signed on Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, making it the first state to mandate a study of how it can make amends for its role in the oppression of Black people. The law creates a nine-member task force to […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Spurred by the fatal police shooting of a young unarmed black man that roiled California’s capital city, state lawmakers approved changes to the nation’s oldest law governing when officers can use deadly force and it was signed by the governor Monday, though even supporters aren’t sure it will save many lives. […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Wednesday a bill making California the first state to ban workplace and school discrimination against black people for wearing hairstyles such as braids, twists and locks. The law by Democratic Sen. Holly Mitchell of Los Angeles, a black woman who wears her hair in locks, […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The 737 inmates on California’s largest-in-the-nation death row are getting a reprieve from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who plans to sign an executive order Wednesday placing a moratorium on executions. Newsom also is withdrawing the lethal injection regulations that death penalty opponents already have tied up in courts and shuttering the new […]
