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Police executives and scholars assert the complexity of 21st century policing demands a college degree.

More than 4 million Africans and their descendants were enslaved throughout the United States. While California joined the Union in 1850 as a state free of slavery, the Legislature passed the California Fugitive Slave Act in 1852, which mandated that government officials and ordinary white citizens help slaveholders recapture people who escaped.  Now, 170 years […]

At the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, California students led the nation in creating college ethnic studies programs that explored the histories and cultures of people overlooked by the dominant European-centric curriculum. It was a time of national racial introspection and wide-scale protest. Echoes of then are loud and clear in […]

Chief executives of some of America’s largest companies have engaged in a new initiative to advocate for public policy changes to secure equal justice.

Un proyecto de ley en el escritorio del gobernador Gavin Newsom autorizaría un estudio de reparaciones para los californianos afroamericanos. Pero un prominente académico dice que espera que la iniciativa de California no reste importancia a la conversación nacional sobre la reparación de la esclavitud.

Muchos proyectos de ley de alto perfil no fueron aprobados el último día de la sesión de 2020 de la Legislatura de California, incluyendo importantes medidas de reforma de la policía.

Many high-profile bills died on the last day of the California Legislature's 2020 session, including major police reform measures.

California's Legislature left much undone when it adjourned for the year, exposing the state's weaknesses.

Will California live up to its promise as a forward-looking leader setting the pace? Two major police reform bills in the Legislature will tell the tale.

State lawmakers will decide the fate of 15 reform bills during a pandemic-shortened session marked by civil unrest and an economic crisis. Not all of them will make it.