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Nigel Duara joined CalMatters in 2020 as a Los Angeles-based reporter covering poverty and inequality issues for our California Divide collaboration. Previously, he served as a national and climate correspondent on the HBO show VICE News Tonight. Before that, he was the border correspondent at the Los Angeles Times based in Phoenix, deployed to stories across the country. He is a longtime contributor to Portland Monthly magazine and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Other languages spoken: Spanish (intermediate); Mandarin (beginner)

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Los Angeles police officers strike demonstrators as they try to push them back during a protest over the death of George Floyd, May 30, 2020, in Los Angeles. Photo by Mark J. Terrill, AP Photo
California Divide
Newsom seeks statewide reform of police use of force
Lee este artículo en español. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today that he has directed California’s police training agency to stop teaching the carotid hold as part of an effort to create statewide standards to guide police use of force. The move comes after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd by pressing on his neck with […]
By • June 5, 2020
A masked Sage employee takes a customer’s order on May 21. Photo by Nigel Duara for CalMatters
California Divide
The pandemic’s great divide: Twelve hours in an L.A. restaurant
Lee este artículo en español. Edson Romero maneuvers his black Cadillac Escalade under the early afternoon sun onto Highway 101 in Los Angeles. Behind him is the Boyle Heights home he shares with three siblings. Up ahead is Echo Park, and the job he’s held since the recovery from the last economic crash, back in 2011. […]
By • May 29, 2020
LAC + USC Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, March 23, 2020. Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG
California Divide
Why is the coronavirus deadly for so many black residents of Los Angeles?
When he worked at a hospital in downtown Los Angeles, Dr. Gregory Taylor saw cases that reflected the community where he grew up: a host of underlying health conditions killing black patients.  Taylor, an internist, called those conditions — diabetes, high blood pressure, respiratory diseases — “a part of the community fabric” among black residents […]
By • May 9, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, talks with Roshaun Davis, owner of Display California, about the locally made items he sells at his store in Sacramento on May 5, 2020. Newsom visited the store and discussed his plan for the gradual reopening of California businesses. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo/Pool
California Divide
Are California businesses getting a fair share of coronavirus loans?
California businesses have received $66.6 billion in federal Paycheck Protection Program loans so far, about 13% of the nation’s total, according to federal loan data. Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state’s businesses didn’t receive a proportional share of the federal money in the first round, but that it is now “punching above its weight” in […]
By • May 5, 2020
A hopeful message is seen on the marquee of the The Chabot theatre on Castro Valley Boulevard day nine of the coronavirus stay-at-home order in Castro Valley, Calif., on March 26, 2020. Photo by Jane Tyska, Bay Area News Group
Coronavirus
A-list business and union leaders combine to help steer California’s economic recovery
California aims to help businesses shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic by assisting them with inventory problems and credit card debt they’ve amassed. Those are among the ideas to be considered by a new, 80-member task force that Gov. Gavin Newsom created today to guide the state’s economic reopening and recovery.  Co-chaired by former presidential candidate […]
By • April 17, 2020

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Nigel Duara joined CalMatters in 2020 as a Los Angeles-based reporter covering poverty and inequality issues for our California Divide collaboration. Previously, he served as a national and climate correspondent on the HBO show VICE News Tonight. Before that, he was the border correspondent at the Los Angeles Times based in Phoenix, deployed to stories across the country. He is a longtime contributor to Portland Monthly magazine and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Other languages spoken: Spanish (intermediate); Mandarin (beginner)
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