#black-residents

#black-residents

State lawmakers have approved Governor Gavin Newsom's bill, which is attempting to increase transparency of the oil industry in the state.It would allow the California Energy Commission to impose penalties, through a regulatory process, if the agency believes oil companies are making excessive profits from gas prices.

Today's SF Board of Supervisors meeting was making national headlines before it had even begun, and that is because SF is poised to become the first major city to grapple with the idea of paying reparations for historical wrongs to Black residents.We've had about two straight months of the national news media hemming and hawing about a draft reparations proposal by a San Francisco committee that, among other things, floated the idea of making $5 million lump-sum payments qualifying Black residents.

The city of San Francisco is moving one step closer to offering reparations to its Black residents.If the plan is enacted, San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to fund reparations.The city's African American Reparations Advisory Committee will present its findings Tuesday at a meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Bakersfield is now home to the Central Valley's first Holocaust Memorial.The tranquil garden is a monument against hate and rising anti-Semitism.Reporter: Joshua Yeager, KVPR  
How Are Jewish Communities In California Dealing With Rise In Anti-Semitism
Study after study shows an alarming increase in hate crimes and racist incidents in California targeting a variety of groups, including Jews.

Bob Dylan once named Gordon Lightfoot one of his favorite songwriters, and called the musician somebody of rare talent while inducting him into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986.On Dylan's 1970 album Self Portrait, he even recorded Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain, and the respect was mutual Lightfoot listened carefully to Dylan's songs, which instilled in him a more direct approach, getting away from the love songs, he once said.

Police officers restrain a man after they told people to go home during a march over the murder of 33-year old marketing executive, Sarah Everard, by a police officer in London, on March 15, 2021.(Matt Dunham/AP)Racism, misogyny and homophobia are running rampant in London's Metropolitan Police force, an official review of the institution found, recommending that the force undergo a dramatic overhaul to address deep-seated issues that it said have been exacerbated by a culture of "defensiveness and denial."

Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell, left, confers with Jackson Police Chief James Davis during a town hall meeting to address youth crime issues in Jackson, Miss., Feb. 14, 2023.Rogelio V. Solis/AP JACKSON, Miss.The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Senate voted Tuesday to pass its version of a bill that would allow an expanded role for state police and appointed judges inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, which is led by Democrats.

A street sign in north London has been vandalised within 24 hours of the road being renamed over concerns about racial connotations, amid a protest by some residents.Black Boy Lane in Tottenham was renamed La Rose Lane on Monday, to honour the late black publisher, poet and essayist John La Rose.The council said the name change was suggested during a consultation held after George Floyd was killed by a police officer in the US in May 2020.

Alexis Henderson stands in the kitchen of her former home at Rosewood Courts in East Austin.The place is abandoned now, save for a couple of items.A rag on the stairwell.A video game decal on the bedroom wall.Henderson points up at a thick pipe in the wall, above where a stove used to be."They had to knock a hole in there in order to fix the pipe," she said, remembering how she had to live with the hole while the pipe was repaired.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Madeline Thigpen of Capital B, a Black-led, nonprofit news organization, about the demonstrations against a police training facility on forested land outside Atlanta.A MARTINEZ, HOST: In Georgia, 23 people are charged with domestic terrorism.The charge is related to protests against the construction of a police training facility in a forest near Atlanta.

A street that was renamed for its racist connotations has been defaced just one day.London's Black Boy Lane', in Tottenham, was rebranded La Rose Lane' on Monday in honour of celebrated black publisher John La Rose.The local authority said it had started a consultation into the planned name change following the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer of 2020.

By Tarah Welsh & Liz Jackson

A quarter of Londoners are living in poverty, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.The charity used government data from 2018 to 2021 to compile its annual report.It found London has the second-highest rate of poverty in England, with almost 2.3m people going without basics like food and toiletries.

Hate crime reports across Los Angeles are up 13% over last year's record-setting levels, according to LAPD Chief Michel Moore, who said he believes inflammatory rhetoric on social media was contributing to the increase.The new statistics, presented at Tuesday's Police Commission meeting, showed that with less than two weeks left in the year the city will almost certainly top 2021's total of 615 reported hate crimes.

Hate crimes surged in Los Angeles County in 2021 to their highest level since 2002, according to a report released Wednesday by the county Commission on Human Relations.The report noted 786 victims of hate crimes, a 23% increase over 2020.The crimes overwhelmingly included acts of violence, and more than half were spurred by racism.

WHITEVILLE, NC - Herman Lewis, second Vice President of the Columbus County NAACP, filed an appeal Monday with the North Carolina State Board of Elections asking them to schedule a hearing on Jody Greene's eligibility to become Sheriff after the local board did not follow procedure in dismissing his initial protest challenging his election.