Black Lives Matter
The 2018 killing of Stephon Clark by Sacramento police deeply impacted Josh Harris, an American River College student. Shocked and angry, he became an activist…
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Tale of Two Cities
Sacramento, one of America’s most diverse urban areas, is fraught with racial and economic fault lines that make it a city of the haves and…
Racial Discrimination in the Time of COVID
While COVID-19 is a global pandemic, its origin in China has caused an increase in hate crimes committed against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI)….
Correcting Inequities
Aaron Howard obeys the rules. And now that he’s trying to get back into Sacramento’s legal cannabis sector, he has a partner in his brother…
Emergency Response
Clad in a T-shirt that in Spanish reads “No Human Being Is Illegal,” Sac ACT’s Tere Flores Onofre stands in front of the 2324 L…
Facts Matter
By Edgar Sanchez Ivan Caballero has thick skin. That would explain why the Sacramento City College freshman recently revealed he doesn’t care what President Donald…
Not your ordinary nonprofit
By Edgar Sanchez Christmas 2019 came early for Julius Thibodeaux. Fifteen days before the holiday, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg announced during a City Council meeting…
2020 Census Op-Ed
BY ELEANOR LOVE As a 15-year-old high school sophomore in Sacramento, I like to think I’m well-informed. I follow the news. I’m active on social…
Fighting for Family
BY EDGAR SANCHEZ Three years ago, Lan Nguyen, then a UCLA grad student, needed a subject for her Master’s Thesis in Asian American Studies. Rather…
Activists Seek Justice Reform for Youth Sentenced as Adults
BY EDGAR SANCHEZ As a youth, Kirn Kim made one good decision after another — eventually becoming an honors student at Sunny Hills High in…
