OAKLAND POST — “It is time to send a thorough message that if you seek to buy a child for sex, you will pay the highest...
When she returned to school to become a nurse, Karina Mendez wanted a work-study job that she could balance with classes at City College of San...
AB 1705 builds off AB 705 (Irwin), a groundbreaking 2017 law that required the state’s community colleges to recognize high school coursework instead of relying on...
Since it first opened its doors in 1971, Public Advocates charted a unique course as an innovative, nonprofit law firm that didn’t just litigate in the...
What’s needed for Black children is a comprehensive and systematic approach like the state’s roadmap for English learners, which states that “English learners are the shared...
During the final week before the October 10 deadline for signing bills passed by the state Legislature this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 46 bills supporting...
PASADENA JOURNAL — The plan is simple. Can the members of The Dream Center Los Angeles community sync one free throw in solidarity with every homeless person...
Tisha Ortiz chose Cal State East Bay sight unseen. Unlike many of today’s college freshmen, the former foster youth didn’t tour campuses, compare dormitories...
By Brian Rinker, Chronicle of Social Change Allyson Bendell wasn’t always the most well-behaved girl, but that didn’t make her a criminal either. In the...
Dione Mason knows all too well what it means to overcome adversity and that you have to play the cards that life deals to you. A...
By Victor Valle, CSC. Sokhom Mao shows me the 11th floor of Oakland City Hall, where he chairs meetings for the Citizen’s Police Review Board, an...
By Andrew Cohen Lily Dorman Colby, class of 2014, recalls how a routine visit to her pediatrician years ago led to a surprising revelation. “My jaw...
This holiday season, the Iscah Uzza Fashion House is presenting its third annual “A Winter Wonderland” youth fashion show and toy drive on Sunday, Dec. 1...
By Ryann Blackshere How do programs provide college pathways for former foster youth? This video features the story of one young black male student at Laney...
By John Kelly At the fourth annual Culinary Inspirations fundraiser last week, 17 current and former foster youths will be paired with area chefs to benefit...