Shirley Weber

Los nombramientos de Alex Padilla y Shirley Weber apuntan al valor para los votantes de poder verse a sí mismos en sus funcionarios electos.

Despite election reforms designed to improve turnout in 2020, the gap between white and diverse voters remained significant.

A pesar de las reformas electorales diseñadas para mejorar la participación en 2020, la brecha entre votantes blancos y diversos siguió siendo significativa.

As California’s Secretary of State prepares to take a new job as U.S. Senator, he’s not going to let a politically charged $35 million invoice get in the way of a smooth promotion. In a press conference Wednesday, Alex Padilla assured reporters that the multimillion-dollar tab his office owes to SKDKnickerbocker, a Biden-affiliated PR shop, […]

In choosing a new U.S. senator and a new secretary of state, Gov. Gavin Newsom could shape Democratic politics for years to come.

Al elegir un nuevo senador estadounidense y una nueva secretaria de estado, el gobernador Gavin Newsom podría moldear la política demócrata en los próximos años.

California's Proposition 16 is a new skirmish in an old battle over "affirmative action."

Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, October 1. Newsom signs high-profile bills As historic protests against police brutality and racism continue to sweep across California and the nation, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed into law a spate of racial and criminal justice legislation and several police reform bills — though the most ambitious police proposals […]

A bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk would authorize a reparations study for Black Californians. But a prominent scholar says he hopes California's effort won't detract from the national conversation on redressing slavery.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature Monday on AB 1460 means students in the CSU system will have to take an ethnic studies course before graduation. The bill overrides a similar but less strict requirement the system imposed earlier this summer.