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Barz Behind Bars: Improving Prison Literacy Rates through Creative Program

Posted by Benjamin Frandsen
|Date: May 29, 2023
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Barz Behind Bars: Improving Prison Literacy Rates through Creative Program

By Benjamin Frandsen MCFARLAND, CA — In 2022, Dr. Brandt Choate, the California Director of the Di ...

By Benjamin Frandsen MCFARLAND, CA — In 2022, Dr. Brandt Choate, the California Director of the Division of Rehabilitative Programs, appeared on the CDCR Unlocked Podcast and publicly affirmed ...

May 29, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Why Fair Housing Is Key to Systemic Equality

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|Date: May 09, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Why Fair Housing Is Key to Systemic Equality

Here’s how discrimination continues to impact access to housing today, and why we're fighting to ensure a ...

Here’s how discrimination continues to impact access to housing today, and why we're fighting to ensure all people have equal access. By Sandra Park Few fights are more pivotal to ending systemic ineq ...

May 09, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Access to Housing Is the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time (Again)

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|Date: April 22, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Access to Housing Is the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time (Again)

The housing crisis is both the cause and effect of systemic civil rights deprivations. By Taylor Pendergr ...

The housing crisis is both the cause and effect of systemic civil rights deprivations. By Taylor Pendergrass In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King left their single-family home ...

April 22, 2023
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Civil Rights Groups Call for Closing of Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail After Another Person Dies In Custody

Posted by Paloma Sifuentes
|Date: March 09, 2023
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Civil Rights Groups Call for Closing of Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail After Another Person Dies In Custody

By Paloma Sifuentes OAKLAND, CA - The civil rights groups are protesting misconduct within Santa Rita jai ...

By Paloma Sifuentes OAKLAND, CA - The civil rights groups are protesting misconduct within Santa Rita jail after an inmate was killed, and said they want to close the jail. Alameda County civil rights ...

March 09, 2023
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President Biden Remembers Police Beatings of Civil Rights Activists on 58th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

Posted by Kaylee Pearlman
|Date: March 08, 2023
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President Biden Remembers Police Beatings of Civil Rights Activists on 58th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

By Kaylee Pearlman SELMA, ALABAMA - President Biden delivered a speech Sunday commemorating the 58th ann ...

By Kaylee Pearlman SELMA, ALABAMA - President Biden delivered a speech Sunday commemorating the 58th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 when hundreds of unarmed civilians in a civil righ ...

March 08, 2023
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Law Prof Insists Protecting Civil Rights While Reducing Community Violence Not Mutually Exclusive

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|Date: February 28, 2023
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Law Prof Insists Protecting Civil Rights While Reducing Community Violence Not Mutually Exclusive

By Vaiva Utaraite WILLIAMSBURG,, VA - The “goals of reducing community violence and protecting the civil ...

By Vaiva Utaraite WILLIAMSBURG,, VA - The “goals of reducing community violence and protecting the civil rights of those who live in our most vulnerable are not mutually exclusive,” according to Kami ...

February 28, 2023
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CA AG Reveals Civil Rights Investigation into Riverside County Sheriff’s Office for ‘Unconstitutional Policing’ Allegation

Posted by Caleigh Carlisle
|Date: February 25, 2023
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CA AG Reveals Civil Rights Investigation into Riverside County Sheriff’s Office for ‘Unconstitutional Policing’ Allegation

By Caleigh Carlisle LOS ANGELES, CA - California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced this week the openi ...

By Caleigh Carlisle LOS ANGELES, CA - California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced this week the opening an investigation into the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office to determine if the office parti ...

February 25, 2023
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DOJ Charges California Man with Federal Hate Crimes for Allegedly Shooting Two Jewish Men

Posted by Sunny Zhou
|Date: February 22, 2023
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DOJ Charges California Man with Federal Hate Crimes for Allegedly Shooting Two Jewish Men

By Sunny Zhou LOS ANGELES, CA - The U.S. Department of Justice this week charged Jaime Tran, 28, with two ...

By Sunny Zhou LOS ANGELES, CA - The U.S. Department of Justice this week charged Jaime Tran, 28, with two federal counts of hate crimes for allegedly shooting two Jewish men as they left religious ser ...

February 22, 2023
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Low Marks from ACLU for GOP in Last Legislative Session

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|Date: February 07, 2023
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Low Marks from ACLU for GOP in Last Legislative Session

By The Vanguard Staff SACRAMENTO, CA – The ACLU California Action Monday released it legislative scorecar ...

By The Vanguard Staff SACRAMENTO, CA – The ACLU California Action Monday released it legislative scorecard, naming the winners and losers, according to how they voted here at the State Capitol for “vi ...

February 07, 2023
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Progressive Alameda County DA Pamela Price Celebrates MLK Jr. Day by Remembering Her ‘Drum Major Instinct’ to ‘Lead the Parade’

Posted by Brinda Kalita
|Date: January 18, 2023
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Progressive Alameda County DA Pamela Price Celebrates MLK Jr. Day by Remembering Her ‘Drum Major Instinct’ to ‘Lead the Parade’

By Brinda Kalita, Daphne Ho and Destiny Gurrola ALAMEDA, CA- In a YouTube video message, new Alameda Coun ...

By Brinda Kalita, Daphne Ho and Destiny Gurrola ALAMEDA, CA- In a YouTube video message, new Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price this week - in light of Martin Luther King Jr. Day - talks ab ...

January 18, 2023
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Alameda DA Pamela Price Sworn In, Makes History As First Black DA in County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 03, 2023
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Alameda DA Pamela Price Sworn In, Makes History As First Black DA in County

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA - Pamela Price made history on Monday, being sworn in ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA - Pamela Price made history on Monday, being sworn in by Oakland Mayor-Elect Sheng Thao, who herself made history as the first Hmong to be elected ma ...

January 03, 2023
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Woman Sues San Francisco for Using Rape Victim DNA Sample to Arrest Her Years Later

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 13, 2022
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Woman Sues San Francisco for Using Rape Victim DNA Sample to Arrest Her Years Later

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Last February embattled San Francisco DA Chesa ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – Last February embattled San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin got national attention when he announced that the San Francisco Police had used rape ki ...

September 13, 2022
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Appeals Court Decides Arkansas Cannot Prohibit Treatment for Transgender Children

Posted by Kiyana Patel
|Date: September 02, 2022
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Appeals Court Decides Arkansas Cannot Prohibit Treatment for Transgender Children

By Kiyana Patel LITTLE ROCK, AR.— A federal appeals court ruled that Arkansas' restriction on transition- ...

By Kiyana Patel LITTLE ROCK, AR.— A federal appeals court ruled that Arkansas' restriction on transition-related medical procedures such as hormones or surgery for transgender youth under the age of 1 ...

September 02, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Episode 163: Kanya Bennett and Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

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|Date: August 22, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Episode 163: Kanya Bennett and Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Kanya Bennett of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Huma ...

This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Kanya Bennett of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. The Vision for Justice 2020 focused on core principles of decarceration, police refo ...

August 22, 2022
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House of Representatives Votes to Pass Respect for Marriage Act

Posted by Ariel Peterson
|Date: August 20, 2022
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House of Representatives Votes to Pass Respect for Marriage Act

By Ariel Peterson WASHINGTON, D.C.—The United States House of Representatives this month passed H.R. 8404 ...

By Ariel Peterson WASHINGTON, D.C.—The United States House of Representatives this month passed H.R. 8404, the Respect for Marriage Act, which requires the federal government to recognize same-sex and ...

August 20, 2022
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Homeless Advocates Petition Court to Toss ‘Deceptive’ Ballot Measure Off Sacramento City November Ballot

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|Date: August 18, 2022
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Homeless Advocates Petition Court to Toss ‘Deceptive’ Ballot Measure Off Sacramento City November Ballot

By Cres Vellucci Jr. Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO, CA – Key homeless community support gro ...

By Cres Vellucci Jr. Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO, CA – Key homeless community support groups revealed this week they are asking a judge to require the Sacramento County Registrar of Vo ...

August 18, 2022
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Los Angeles Supes Approve Ballot Measure That Would Allow Supervisors to Remove Controversial LA Sheriff

Posted by Leila Chiddick
|Date: August 08, 2022
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Los Angeles Supes Approve Ballot Measure That Would Allow Supervisors to Remove Controversial LA Sheriff

By Leila Katibah LOS ANGELES, CA - Following decades of organizing by civil rights groups and families of ...

By Leila Katibah LOS ANGELES, CA - Following decades of organizing by civil rights groups and families of victims of sheriffs’ deputy violence, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors last week vo ...

August 08, 2022
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ICE Prevented from Using Outside Contractors to Make Immigration Arrest after ACLU/Asian Law Caucus Lawsuit

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|Date: July 08, 2022
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ICE Prevented from Using Outside Contractors to Make Immigration Arrest after ACLU/Asian Law Caucus Lawsuit

By the Vanguard Staff LOS ANGELES, CA – ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) will now be prevented f ...

By the Vanguard Staff LOS ANGELES, CA – ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) will now be prevented from using G4S Secure Solutions, Inc., a contractor, to “arrest people at jail and prisons to fu ...

July 08, 2022
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Newly Released ’37 Words’ Sheds Light on Federal Civil Rights Act, and Alameda District Attorney Candidate Pamela Price

Posted by Paulina Buelna
|Date: April 29, 2022
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Newly Released ’37 Words’ Sheds Light on Federal Civil Rights Act, and Alameda District Attorney Candidate Pamela Price

By Paulina Buelna OAKLAND, CA – The book, 37 Words, chronicles the 1972 federal civil rights law Title IX ...

By Paulina Buelna OAKLAND, CA – The book, 37 Words, chronicles the 1972 federal civil rights law Title IX to end discrimination against gender in the workplace. Pamela Price, candidate for Alameda Cou ...

April 29, 2022
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ACLU, Others File Voting Rights Suit in Mississippi for Diluting Black Votes

Posted by Ashleen Herrarte
|Date: April 26, 2022
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ACLU, Others File Voting Rights Suit in Mississippi for Diluting Black Votes

By Ashleen Herrarte GREENVILLE, MISS – Mississippi civil rights groups have challenged Supreme Court-appr ...

By Ashleen Herrarte GREENVILLE, MISS – Mississippi civil rights groups have challenged Supreme Court-approved district lines that have been unchanged for over 35 years, after those lines decreased the ...

April 26, 2022
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