The San Diego Unified elementary school delivered free gifts and brought a surprise guest to make some holiday wishes come true.
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Students and a right-leaning nonprofit sued UC San Diego for allegedly supporting a scholarship fund for Black students. They cited the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act as evidence to support their case. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed five laws advancing reparations for the descendants of enslaved people in California, but he vetoed five others. It’s a mixed record two years after the California Reparations Task Force issued its seminal report. -
Thousands of people marched through downtown San Diego on Saturday morning as part of a nationwide “No Kings” protest against President Donald Trump’s policies. Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and rising health care costs were among attendees’ concerns. -
A San Diego preschool focuses on the “little guys” who experience domestic violence and other trauma. Mi Escuelita now has a long record of helping families move forward. -
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law authorizing $6 million for California State University to study how to confirm an individual’s status as a descendant of an enslaved person. But he rejected other proposals aimed at addressing the state’s legacy of racist and discriminatory policies against Black Americans. -
The creation of a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery in California is a first-in-the-nation step toward moving reparations from theory to reality. -
At New York City's Tenement Museum, high schoolers explore the American experience through the eyes of one 1860s-era Black family. -
Rev. Yehiel Curry succeeds Rev. Elizabeth Eaton, who served for 12 years and was the first woman to lead the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. -
For the first seven years of her life, Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas border town. Her new Netflix stand-up special is called Upper Classy. -
George E. Hardy was the youngest Red Tail fighter pilot at 19 years old and completed 21 missions across Europe during World War II.
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