Equal Rights/Equity
Oakland Police Release Video footage in Two Police Involved Deaths
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety In an unprecedented move, the Oakland Police Department this week released body camera evidence…
California Bans Grand Juries in Police-Involved Deaths
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety, Uncategorized The ban is not a significant change to the pre-existing process, say civil rights…
S.F. Latino Community Leader Rosario Anaya, 70
Posted in Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Equal Rights/Equity, Immigrant Rights By Wade Woods Former San Francisco School Board member and director of the Mission…
Oakland Police Must Seek Ways to Avoid Deadly Force, Says Federal Monitor
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety Black and Latino motorists and pedestrians stopped and searched at higher rates By Ken…
Prison Leader Hugo “Yogi” Pinell Killed
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Police-Public Safety, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated By Jaron Epstein Hugo Yogi Pinell, born March 10, 1945 in Nicaragua and one of…
Post Publisher Calls for New Voting Rights Movement
Posted in Elections & Voting Rights, Equal Rights/Equity, voting rights By Post Staff Fifty years ago, Post Publisher Paul Cobb went…
Diversity Within OPD Still Falls Short
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Oakland Job Programs, Police-Public Safety Disparities in hirng of Asians, Blacks and Latinos; Blacks most underrepresented By…
OPD Efforts to Recruit African Americans Yield Meager Results
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Oakland Job Programs, Police-Public Safety By Ashley Chambers and Dakotah Jennifer Recent efforts by the Oakland Police…
Hidden Geniuses Say, “Yes We Code”
By Rasheed Shabazz As a young child, Muhammad Abdulla worked as a farmer, planting seeds in Yemen….
Is America Hearing the Message Resonating from Behind Prison Walls?
Posted in Commentary, Equal Rights/Equity, Mass incarceration, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated By Troy William Commentary After reading articles written by Richard Johnson (in the…