Two former members of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans shared some of their experiences developing a 1,075-page report that detailed injustices suffered by African Americans during and after chattel slavery.
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Citing the hundreds of lives lost to extreme heat each year, California state housing officials are urging lawmakers to set residential cooling standards long opposed by landlords and builders who fear such a measure would force them to make big-ticket upgrades.
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A Call to Action for Heart Health and Wellness
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Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., a lifelong civil rights leader and president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), has released The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy, co-authored with award-winning journalist Stacy M. Brown. Published by Select Books, this powerful new work examines the enduring impact of the transatlantic slave trade and outlines a path forward for racial justice and economic empowerment.
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Abortion foes worried before his election that President Donald Trump had moved on, now that Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion policy, as he said on the campaign trail, “has been returned to the states.”
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