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Community Comes Out Against Racism
Activists, Advocates Stand Together After Black School Administrator Threatened
Community leaders, activists and parents stood in solidarity at West Campus High School Tuesday afternoon, demanding accountability and real change in the wake of racist acts against the Black vice principal there…
Grandmother Shares Love Of Reading
Virtual Tools Allow Retiree To Connect With Area Schools — And With Granddaughters On The Other Side Of The World
Her granddaughters are nearly 8,000 miles away, living in Thailand, but Brigitte Timmons connects with them weekly for online story time. Saturday evening here is Sunday morning there. They’ve read books like Whoopi Goldberg’s “Sugar Plum Ballerinas,” “Little Leaders: Bold Women In Black History” by Vashti Harrison, “John Henry: An American Legend” and “The Snowy Day,” by Ezra Jack Keats…
Two Families Searching For Answers About Missing Teens
Community Says Missing Black Girls Deserve Attention
Two missing girls. Two moms on a mission for answers.
Yolanda Holmes and Ebony Berry’s paths may never cross, but the area mothers have the shared experience of a parent’s “worst nightmare,” not knowing where their daughters are and having the search prove more difficult than they imagined…
The “Giving Ourselves A Shot” series was produced through my participation in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Sacramento’s Black Community Takes Charge Of Its Own Health, Vaccination
How local leaders have taken vaccine distribution in underserved communities into their own hands
As a Black female neurosurgeon in affluent Folsom, Dr. Kawanaa Carter is paid well, but has spent the last six months healing the community for free…
Real Talk
Three Sacramento Families Discuss Their COVID Stories — And Share How The Vaccine Is Protecting Them
As some still debate whether or not the coronavirus is real or if the vaccine was cooked up by the government to control the masses, local families are weighing fact against fiction as they see it and deciding what is best for them…
Faith Community Steps Up Vaccination Efforts
Church Leaders Provide Efforts To Protect Local African American Residents
With recent surges and a devilish Delta variant running rampant, there’s someone new getting sick or dying from COVID-19 complications seemingly every day…