• Accent Bias Remains Prevalent in Pop Culture

    As television and film have become diverse, there are still some areas people feel are not being addressed. Accent bias is one of them. Saadia Khan, human rights activist and host of the podcast Immigrantly, grew up in Pakistan and found people belonging to certain socio-economic groups looked at how...
  • This is California’s most fiercely contested political turf

    Ben Christopher & Ariel Gans CalMatters On an already-hot Saturday morning in east Bakersfield, state Assembly candidate Leticia Perez stands at the front of the electrical workers’ local union hall, working a crowd of fellow Democrats ready to knock on doors and talk to voters. But the thrust of...
  • California pondrá fin al estado de emergencia por COVID

    El estado de emergencia por el COVID-19 en California finalizará el 28 de febrero de 2023, casi tres años después de su inicio, anunciaron el 17 de octubre funcionarios de la oficina del gobernador Gavin Newsom. El anuncio se produjo cuando las nuevas variantes generan preocupaciones de que habrá otro aumento...
  • Breast-Cancer Awareness: Screenings Down Compared to Pre-Pandemic

    October is breast cancer awareness month and health professionals are urging people to get screened for the disease. Screenings have gone down because of the pandemic. Numbers rebounded a bit this year, according to a recent study, but are still down 15% from their pre-pandemic levels. Dr. Mandy Robertson is...
  • California to end the COVID state of emergency

    California’s COVID-19 state of emergency will end Feb. 28, 2023, nearly three years from its initiation, officials from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced on October 17. The announcement came as new variants spur concerns that there will be another deadly winter surge across the country and as test positivity rates plateau...
  • This is how much money you’ll get from the California gas rebate

    California is sending money directly to millions of residents to help with rising costs and high gas prices. The payments, which started going out Oct. 7, range from $200 to $1,050, depending on income and other factors. About 18 million payments will be distributed over the next few months, benefiting...
  • Newsom calls special session on gas rebate

    Alexei Koseff CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to call a special legislative session in December to push for a tax on oil industry profits, the latest escalation in a feud over soaring gasoline prices that Newsom calls greedy and manipulative. Newsom said on October 7th that he would convene the...
  • Newsom convoca una sesión especial para discutir reembolso de gasolina

    El gobernador Gavin Newsom planea convocar una sesión legislativa especial en diciembre para impulsar un impuesto sobre las ganancias de la industria petrolera, la última escalada en una disputa por el aumento de los precios de la gasolina que Newsom llama codicioso y manipulador. Newsom dijo que convocaría la sesión...
  • Los mapas en los que la circunscripción electoral ha sido manipulada lanzan al precipicio el proceso electoral

    Peter White Ethnic Media Services David Leonhardt, periodista de The New York Times, dice que la manipulación de la circunscripción electoral no es la mayor amenaza a la que se enfrenta la democracia americana. Los activistas que luchan contra una nueva política uni-partidista a lo Jim Crow en nueve...
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