Equity and Inclusion

Attorneys say that 89% of those arrested by the Rodeo Drive Task Force were Black and want the California Attorney General to investigate their findings. “You need to take action. There needs to be an investigation to continue to bring Black citizens forward,” Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump said.

In California’s prison system, there are roughly 94,000 inmates. Many of them have jobs, everything from manufacturing to food services. However, their salaries are 8 cents per hour. One state senator plans to change that.

The U.S. issued its first passport with an “X” gender — a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who don’t identify as male or female.

More than 30 years after his death, the city of Oakland has its first permanent public art piece honoring Huey Percy Newton, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party.

Texas’ transgender student-athletes will be restricted from playing on K-12 school sports teams that align with their gender identity under a bill Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Monday.

The Treasury Department has hired a former JPMorgan Chase executive to head a new government program aimed at combatting racial inequality issues in banking and other financial-services industries.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday approved Texas’ new political maps for the state’s congressional, legislative, and State Board of Education districts, according to Texas Legislature Online.

Parents say long hair was never an issue up until this year and tell the ACLU their children have been "severely punished...and in some cases forced them out of school altogether."

Some Netflix workers on Wednesday participated in a walkout in protest of comedian Dave Chappelle’s new special "The Closer." Critics say the new special is offensive to transgender people and has the potential to instigate real-life violence.

The law, HB 1775, also prevents colleges and universities from requiring students to undergo gender or sexual diversity training.

The summit is held every year and began after the 2018 Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh which resulted in one of the largest losses of life in an anti-Semitic attack in the U.S.

The Art Institute of Chicago fired all of its trained volunteers and guides last month, who were mostly older White women, to diversify its team.

A bill that would restrict transgender student-athletes from playing on school sports teams that align with their gender identity is heading to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk after the Texas House accepted Senate amendments to the legislation in a 76-61 vote Sunday afternoon.

The Biden administration will turn next to the Supreme Court in an effort to halt a Texas law that has banned most abortions since September.

The Texas House approved legislation on Thursday that would restrict transgender student-athlete participation in school sports, clearing a notable hurdle for supporters of the measure after similar legislation sailed through the Senate and stalled in the House three times prior this year.

A request to remove a statue of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson from City Hall came from members of the City Council, the mayor said, and not from him or his wife. The statue has stood in City Hall for 187 years.