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Carolyn Jones y Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Para los estudiantes de color, la reciente prohibición de la acción afirmativa por parte de la Corte Suprema los ha dejado frustrados pero impávidos mientras avanzan en la temporada de solicitudes universitarias. Mientras tanto, algunas universidades privadas de California están aumentando sus esfuerzos...
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Carolyn Jones y Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters For students of color, the Supreme Court’s recent ban on affirmative action has left them frustrated but undaunted as they plow through college application season. Some California private colleges, meanwhile, are increasing their outreach efforts to attract more students and send a signal that the...
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Felicia Mello CalMatters El descanso en fin de semana. La jornada laboral de ocho horas. La licencia familiar remunerada. Esos frutos de las victorias laborales son parte de la vida cotidiana en California. Ahora, este verano con bastante movimiento laboral en el estado, puede haber ayudado a inspirar otra...
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Felicia Mello CalMatters The weekend. The eight-hour workday. Paid family leave. Those fruits of labor victories are part of everyday life in California. Now the state’s hot labor summer may have helped inspire another precedent-setting measure, if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill on his desk that would allow...
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Rong Xiaoqing Ethnic Media Services Anne Watkins dice que el apuñalamiento del 11 de enero de un estudiante chino-estadounidense de 18 años por parte de Billie Davis, de 56 años, que es blanco, cambió fundamentalmente su percepción de la ciudad que llama hogar. “Cuando sucedió en Bloomington, pensé: están...
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Rong Xiaoqing Ethnic Media Services Anne Watkins says the January 11 stabbing of an 18-year-old Chinese American student by Billie Davis, 56, who is white, fundamentally changed her perception of the city she calls home. “When it happened in Bloomington, I was like, they’re one step closer,” says Watkins,...
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Community members in the Lake Arrowhead area are planning to distribute free rainbow flags this week – in memory of Lauri Carleton, a 66-year-old shopkeeper shot to death on Friday August 18 by a young man who demanded she take down the store’s Pride flag. Carleton’s husband chased the...
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Nicole Foy CalMatters As Fresno-area temperatures sizzled around 100 recently, a 59-year-old tomatillo field worker collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat. “Elidio Hernández should not have died,” said...
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Nicole Foy CalMatters Los californianos indocumentados afectados por las tormentas de invierno y las inundaciones están comenzando a recibir dinero de un programa especial de ayuda que el estado lanzó para ellos hace dos meses. En junio, la oficina del gobernador Gavin Newsom anunció que planea gastar $95 millones del Fondo...
Carolyn Jones y Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Para los estudiantes de color, la reciente prohibición de la acción afirmativa por parte de la Corte Suprema los ha dejado frustrados pero impávidos mientras avanzan en la temporada de solicitudes universitarias. Mientras tanto, algunas universidades privadas de California están aumentando sus esfuerzos...
Carolyn Jones y Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters For students of color, the Supreme Court’s recent ban on affirmative action has left them frustrated but undaunted as they plow through college application season. Some California private colleges, meanwhile, are increasing their outreach efforts to attract more students and send a signal that the...
Felicia Mello CalMatters El descanso en fin de semana. La jornada laboral de ocho horas. La licencia familiar remunerada. Esos frutos de las victorias laborales son parte de la vida cotidiana en California. Ahora, este verano con bastante movimiento laboral en el estado, puede haber ayudado a inspirar otra...
Felicia Mello CalMatters The weekend. The eight-hour workday. Paid family leave. Those fruits of labor victories are part of everyday life in California. Now the state’s hot labor summer may have helped inspire another precedent-setting measure, if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill on his desk that would allow...
Rong Xiaoqing Ethnic Media Services Anne Watkins dice que el apuñalamiento del 11 de enero de un estudiante chino-estadounidense de 18 años por parte de Billie Davis, de 56 años, que es blanco, cambió fundamentalmente su percepción de la ciudad que llama hogar. “Cuando sucedió en Bloomington, pensé: están...
Rong Xiaoqing Ethnic Media Services Anne Watkins says the January 11 stabbing of an 18-year-old Chinese American student by Billie Davis, 56, who is white, fundamentally changed her perception of the city she calls home. “When it happened in Bloomington, I was like, they’re one step closer,” says Watkins,...
Community members in the Lake Arrowhead area are planning to distribute free rainbow flags this week – in memory of Lauri Carleton, a 66-year-old shopkeeper shot to death on Friday August 18 by a young man who demanded she take down the store’s Pride flag. Carleton’s husband chased the...
Nicole Foy CalMatters As Fresno-area temperatures sizzled around 100 recently, a 59-year-old tomatillo field worker collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat. “Elidio Hernández should not have died,” said...
Nicole Foy CalMatters Los californianos indocumentados afectados por las tormentas de invierno y las inundaciones están comenzando a recibir dinero de un programa especial de ayuda que el estado lanzó para ellos hace dos meses. En junio, la oficina del gobernador Gavin Newsom anunció que planea gastar $95 millones del Fondo...