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Does program help American Muslims—or spy on them?
When it comes to ‘preventing violent extremism,’ critics worry Muslims are the focus—even in California. A Sacramento nonprofit that serves refugees and immigrants has been…
Secondary smoke
Is Sacramento ready for the next big wildfire? Sacramento wasn’t ready for the smoke that billowed south from November’s Camp Fire, the deadliest and most…
California organizers are trying to complete Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of uniting the poor
King’s dream of ending poverty fizzled after his 1968 assassination. So why is it resonating a half-century later in Sacramento? For six Mondays last summer,…
Perplexed by a friend
You can’t know what’s going on with a friend just from Facebook posts.
Black Lives Matter interrupts DA’s speech with silence
Sacramento chapter founder one of two arrested for trespassing after buying tickets to female bar association luncheon White tablecloths, mostly white faces. Cue the woman…
Before Stephon Clark, Joseph Mann’s death ignited calls for police reform
Federal judge reverses course, decides Mann’s siblings lack standing to sue city and cops who killed him Local civil rights attorney Mark Merin stood in…
No love connection
When dates don't lead to a relationship.
Sacramento progressives, shocked by Mueller report, point to 2020
By Sasha Abramsky As news of Attorney General William Barr’s summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report hit on Sunday afternoon, stunned progressives around Sacramento…
Midnight Burning: Three murders, three detectives and the remnants of a savage summer
Doyle Hemling was in his bedroom when a car door slammed in the darkness. Hemling lived on Annabelle Avenue, a one-way country road dipping through…
Editor’s note: Reimagining Sacramento’s waterfront
By Foon Rhee Many of my favorite cities share at least one thing—an exciting waterfront: Barcelona, Paris, Vancouver, Venice and, of course, San Francisco. We’ll…
Stephon Clark: One year later
The black father’s legacy is still being written a year after two Sacramento police officers killed him in his grandparents’ backyard The streets teem with…
The ‘second’ killing of Stephon Clark
In clearing officers, Sacramento County district attorney built a case against an unarmed homicide victim Gray walls, gray carpet, gray faces. Sleep- and stress-puffed eyes….
Sex, lies and videotape
A sex tape with his ex.
On the margins of the margins
Next to a Sacramento neighborhood, Southeast Asian homeless immigrants struggle to survive flood waters and a lack of services The woman I’ll call May and…
While Trump was eating crow, we were eating crab
At the Sac Central Labor Council Crab Feed, our publisher finds a link between the new progressive Democratic agenda and the progressive union agenda.
Take a hard look in the mirror
Look inward to deal with resentment.