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Somali Family Service’s documentary uses personal stories to illustrate the impact of hate and the support available to local residents.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is hiring more health workers across the country amid growing outcry over in-custody deaths.
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Thousands of men in California are neither working nor in school. Gov. Gavin Newsom has called it a “crisis,” both for the labor market and for men’s mental health.
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The project faced fiery opposition from residents and environmental groups, who warned it would bring more pollution to the city’s industrialized west side.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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