Equal Rights/Equity

Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

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…

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Ken A. Epstein

Hidden Geniuses Say, “Yes We Code”

By Rasheed Shabazz As a young child, Muhammad Abdulla worked as a farmer, planting seeds in Yemen….

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