By the time Mary Louise Reeves stepped off the train into Los Angeles in 1942, she had already accomplished what society told Black girls from Marshall, Texas, was impossible.
The global soccer community came together for the championship match between Spain and Argentina.
Communities of color in California continue to face significant obstacles to buying and owning homes, along with gaps in government enforcement of fair-lending laws that limit their ability to build wealth proportionate to their share of the state’s population.
A coalition of national partners, including the National Action Network Founder and President Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, announced “March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote” on Friday, August 28, 2026.
It’s been more than a week since the parents of Nolan Xavier Wells, a Black teenager eager to make his mark as a wide receiver on the football team at Southwest Mississippi Community College, received the call that no family ever wants to get.
Nearly 14 years after California intervened in the Inglewood Unified School District’s (IUSD) fiscal crisis, the district is closer than ever to regaining full local control. That achievement deserves recognition. It also gives California an opportunity to evaluate what its longest-running school receivership can teach about helping school districts recover from fiscal crisis.
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