California voters will decide in November whether to remove an exemption for involuntary servitude from the state constitution under a proposal the state Legislature just approved. Alabama voters abolished slavery this way back in 2022. The polls opened shortly after Alabama Public Radio premiered its award-winning documentary “No Stone Unturned: Preserving Slave cemeteries in Alabama,” which was honored with an international “Gabriel” award, a national “Edward R. Murrow” award, and a national “Salute to Excellence” award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Alabama’s anti-slavery amendment also focused on what was, at that time, involuntary servitude among prison inmates.
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Over 100 supporters gathered at the Palm Sophia Rooftop on Saturday, June 15th to kick-off the re-election campaign of Mayor Yasmine-Imani McMorrin's 2024 for Culver City Council.
California must act now to confront today’s Black job crisis. The Bureau of Labor Statistics last year reported that 90% of the nation’s unemployed U.S. citizens are Black Americans. And despite being less than 10% of LA’s population, Black people comprise more than a third of its unhoused residents.
Three California state senators are backing a $10 billion climate bond developed by environmental and social justice groups as an alternative to a separate spending proposal moving through the Senate. This push comes just a week before the June 28 deadline to place bonds on the November ballot. Senators María Elena Durazo, Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, and Dave Cortese have called on Governor Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders to support a bond that allocates at least 40 percent of its funding to disadvantaged communities most affected by climate change — a concept known as Justice40.
Over 100 supporters gathered at the Palm Sophia Rooftop on Saturday, June 15, 2024 to kick-off the re-election campaign of Mayor Yasmine-Imani McMorrin’s 2024 for Culver City Council.
It comes as California hopes to make it mandatory for stores to have an employee for every two self-checkout machines.
A bill that would require California grocery stores to have an employee for every two self-checkout machines, and limit customers to 15 items at those points, passed yet another hurdle Wednesday.
Three California state senators are backing a $10 billion climate bond developed by environmental and social justice groups as an alternative to a separate spending proposal moving through the Senate, two weeks ahead of a deadline to put bonds on the November ballot.