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Death Row Clemency Filings: Report Analysis of Louisiana’s Broken Death Penalty

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|Date: August 25, 2023
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Death Row Clemency Filings: Report Analysis of Louisiana’s Broken Death Penalty

By Rena Abdusalam BATON ROUGE, LA - The Capital Appeals Project, a nonprofit law firm located in Louisian ...

By Rena Abdusalam BATON ROUGE, LA - The Capital Appeals Project, a nonprofit law firm located in Louisiana, released a report about Louisiana's capital punishment system this week, noting the state’s ...

August 25, 2023
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Critics Said Took A While, but Memphis Police Target of Probe by DOJ after January 2023 Killing of Tyre Nichols

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|Date: August 13, 2023
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Critics Said Took A While, but Memphis Police Target of Probe by DOJ after January 2023 Killing of Tyre Nichols

By The Vanguard MEMPHIS, TN – It may have taken a while, according to critics, but the U.S. Dept. of Just ...

By The Vanguard MEMPHIS, TN – It may have taken a while, according to critics, but the U.S. Dept. of Justice announced this month it’s “investigating whether the Memphis Police Department participates ...

August 13, 2023
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Alameda County District Attorney’s Office Issues Statement Supporting Embattled Former Marin County Prosecutor

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|Date: July 12, 2023
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Alameda County District Attorney’s Office Issues Statement Supporting Embattled Former Marin County Prosecutor

By The Vanguard Staff OAKLAND, CA – The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has issued a “statement ...

By The Vanguard Staff OAKLAND, CA – The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has issued a “statement of support of our esteemed Chief Assistant District Attorney, Otis Bruce,” a former Marin pros ...

July 12, 2023
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ACLU Joins Chorus Slamming SCOTUS Rulings Restricting Affirmative Action in Higher Education

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|Date: June 30, 2023
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ACLU Joins Chorus Slamming SCOTUS Rulings Restricting Affirmative Action in Higher Education

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – The ACLU, among others, slammed the U.S. Supreme Court decision Th ...

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – The ACLU, among others, slammed the U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday to restrict a school’s ability to address systemic racial equalities in higher education ...

June 30, 2023
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Black Voters in Alabama’s Congressional Map

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|Date: June 09, 2023
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Black Voters in Alabama’s Congressional Map

By Leslie Garcia WASHINGTON, DC - In the case Allen v. Milligan, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday made a ...

By Leslie Garcia WASHINGTON, DC - In the case Allen v. Milligan, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday made a historic decision by supporting Black voters who opposed Alabama's 2021 congressional map and a ...

June 09, 2023
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CA Measure to Address Massive Increase in Hate Crimes OK’d by Key Committee

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|Date: April 01, 2023
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CA Measure to Address Massive Increase in Hate Crimes OK’d by Key Committee

By Destiny Gurrola SACRAMENTO, CA – Legislation authored by CA State Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D-Santa An ...

By Destiny Gurrola SACRAMENTO, CA – Legislation authored by CA State Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D-Santa Ana) passed the Senate Public Safety 5-0 committee this week, addressing massive increases in hat ...

April 01, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 148: Jarrett Adams from Wrongful Conviction to Attorney

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|Date: October 24, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 148: Jarrett Adams from Wrongful Conviction to Attorney

A few weeks ago Jarrett Adams received the Vanguard Justice Award going to a person wrongly convicted. H ...

A few weeks ago Jarrett Adams received the Vanguard Justice Award going to a person wrongly convicted. Here is our podcast with him from March 2022. Jarrett Adams was a high school student and made o ...

October 24, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 148: Jarrett Adams from Wrongful Conviction to Attorney

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|Date: July 11, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 148: Jarrett Adams from Wrongful Conviction to Attorney

https://soundcloud.com/davisvanguard/everyday-injustice-podcast-episode-148-jarrett-adams-from-wrongful-c ...

https://soundcloud.com/davisvanguard/everyday-injustice-podcast-episode-148-jarrett-adams-from-wrongful-conviction-to-attorney Jarrett Adams was a high school student and made one mistake—he went to a ...

July 11, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 148: Jarrett Adams from Wrongful Conviction to Attorney

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|Date: March 28, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 148: Jarrett Adams from Wrongful Conviction to Attorney

Jarrett Adams was a high school student and made one mistake—he went to a college party and ended up wron ...

Jarrett Adams was a high school student and made one mistake—he went to a college party and ended up wrongly convicted for the rape of a white college woman, having been convicted by an all-white jury ...

March 28, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: Unequal Justice… What If Kyle Rittenhouse Were Black?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 21, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Unequal Justice… What If Kyle Rittenhouse Were Black?

By David M. Greenwald Everyday Injustice The criminal justice system is not broken many say, it is workin ...

By David M. Greenwald Everyday Injustice The criminal justice system is not broken many say, it is working just as it was designed to work. And for many, that means two system of justice. As Alameda ...

November 21, 2021
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Commentary: Graham’s Gun Comments Belie the Point that the Gun Debate Is Not Race Neutral

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 31, 2021
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Commentary: Graham’s Gun Comments Belie the Point that the Gun Debate Is Not Race Neutral

By David M. Greenwald Every time we have a mass shooting, we head back into the familiar ground of gun de ...

By David M. Greenwald Every time we have a mass shooting, we head back into the familiar ground of gun debate. Truth be told, I’m probably more libertarian than many on the left when it comes to gun ...

March 31, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: We Resemble This Politico Article – the Clash of Suburbs, Housing and Race

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 10, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: We Resemble This Politico Article – the Clash of Suburbs, Housing and Race

A provocative Politico article that came out this week, entitled “Trump Doesn’t Understand Today’s Suburb ...

A provocative Politico article that came out this week, entitled “Trump Doesn’t Understand Today’s Suburbs—And Neither Do You.” But this isn’t about Trump—it’s about us. As the article notes, “Suburb ...

August 10, 2020
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Commentary: Something Pretty Extraordinary Happened This Week

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 17, 2020
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Commentary: Something Pretty Extraordinary Happened This Week

It seems that everything comes together—in two weeks it will make the 14th anniversary of my founding of ...

It seems that everything comes together—in two weeks it will make the 14th anniversary of my founding of the Davis Vanguard. The impetus for that foundation was the June 2006 shutdown of the Davis Hu ...

July 17, 2020
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Letter: People of Color Repressed by a Decision-Making Body

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|Date: July 05, 2020
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Letter: People of Color Repressed by a Decision-Making Body

By Tracy Tomasky Discussions following the school board’s decision to fill Dr. Pickett’s seat exposed man ...

By Tracy Tomasky Discussions following the school board’s decision to fill Dr. Pickett’s seat exposed many deep feelings. As I listen, I grow increasingly frustrated that people of color are again rep ...

July 05, 2020
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With Apologies to Alan Fernandes

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 05, 2020
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With Apologies to Alan Fernandes

Over the last few days, I have written on numerous occasions that the school board is all-white and have ...

Over the last few days, I have written on numerous occasions that the school board is all-white and have expressed concern about the board being tone deaf on their appointment process. What I did not ...

July 05, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Citing Juror’s Appearance, Judge Ousts Black Juror in Police Assault Case

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|Date: March 10, 2020
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Citing Juror’s Appearance, Judge Ousts Black Juror in Police Assault Case

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Monday, a Black man was kicked off a ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Monday, a Black man was kicked off a jury here because of his attire. And maybe because he wore headphones into court and maybe beca ...

March 10, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: White Fragility Underlies the Debate over District Elections

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 08, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: White Fragility Underlies the Debate over District Elections

For years, I heard complaints from people of color, both seeing it on surveys and hearing it anecdotally ...

For years, I heard complaints from people of color, both seeing it on surveys and hearing it anecdotally – an African American football player who interned for the Vanguard several years ago once told ...

September 08, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: ‘The Other Davis’

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: August 22, 2019
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Guest Commentary: ‘The Other Davis’

By Matt Williams For reasons that are wholly unrelated to what I found, I was looking through past Word d ...

By Matt Williams For reasons that are wholly unrelated to what I found, I was looking through past Word documents I had written. In the process I ran into my answer to the Vanguard's seventh weekly q ...

August 22, 2019
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My View: Race Really Is the Driving Force in Politics

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 17, 2019
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My View: Race Really Is the Driving Force in Politics

A number of commenters and even political leaders have attempted to downplay the issue of race in Davis. ...

A number of commenters and even political leaders have attempted to downplay the issue of race in Davis. A lot of people are more comfortable shifting the issue from one of race to socio-economic sta ...

August 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Lot of Unfounded Arguments against District Elections

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 05, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Lot of Unfounded Arguments against District Elections

One official from the city told me a few weeks ago that they had thought the school district bowed down t ...

One official from the city told me a few weeks ago that they had thought the school district bowed down too easily on the threat of district elections – until they looked at the statutes and case law ...

August 05, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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