My View: Is It Time to Rethink How Our Land Use Policies Intersect with Our Purported Values?
In June of 2016, Davis voters narrowly voted for Bernie Sanders who received 54.5 percent of the…
Sunday Commentary: Would Kirk-Coehlo Have Received Prison Time if She Were Black?
Our discussion of the Lauren Kirk-Coehlo matter brought up an interesting issue that has generated some considerable…
Justice Watch: Race in the Criminal Justice System
Mass incarceration contributes significantly to the racial achievement gap A report last week from the Economic Policy…
Justice Watch: How Race Pervades the Criminal Justice System
Bill Quigley, Loyola University New Orleans Law Professor, gives 18 examples of how race pervades the criminal…
Analysis: What to Make of Study on Police Shootings and Use of Force
The headline in the New York Times read “Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of…
Commentary: Tragic Killings Are a Warning
Two separate police shootings on Tuesday and Wednesday led to a series of protests across the country,…
Marijuana Infractions Unevenly Enforced Against People of Color in California
(ACLU Press Release) – New data analyses conducted by the Drug Policy Alliance and ACLU of California…
Prosecutors Still Using Race To Choose Juries
By Cassandra Stubbs This week’s 7-1 Supreme Court decision in Foster v. Chatman was a huge victory…
Guest Commentary: The Concept of Race Is Nothing But Fiction
By Jeff Adachi Race is the world’s most persistent deception. Throughout history, the color of our skin…
Sunday Commentary: Biggest Fears Realized on AIM, Just Four Latinos and One Black Identified Under New Guidelines
For those fearing that the changes to the AIM program would result in the exclusion of blacks…
Commentary: Toy Guns Kill People
Yesterday I took my daughter to lunch over at Lamppost Pizza. She likes to get the little…
Racial Justice and Free Speech Are Not Mutually Exclusive
By Dennis Parker The recent wave of college demonstrations starting at the University of Missouri and Yale…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Do Whites Really Want to Be Part of the Race Conversation?
I found myself reading Debra DeAngelo’s column this weekend, which is probably something I should not do….
Sunday Commentary II: All Lives Matter, But That Ignores the Problem
For years the answer given to claims about racism, hiring and pay discrepancies, and the like has…
District Moving to Modify Board Policy on Suspension and Expulsion
Under current Education Code, the law allows for home suspension for students in grades 4-12 who have…
Analysis: What Jann Murray-Garcia Teaches Us on the GATE/AIM Issue
I want to start my analysis of her latest column by stating that, of all of the…
Study Finds Black Americans Killed By Police Twice As Likely As White People To Be Unarmed
Defenders of the police have launched a counter-offensive, arguing that more whites are killed by police each…
Target of SF Police Texting Scandal Speaks Out At Justice Event
When the racist text messages sent by at least ten members of the San Francisco Police Department…
Fighting Violence With Violence Will Not Bring Change
by Antoinnette Borbon It has become an ongoing story in the world today, as we hear of…
South Carolina Officer Charged With Murder, Massive Change in Ferguson
This time there would be no mistake, no second-guessing: a white officer is seen on video shooting…