By DEEPA BHARATH and TERRY TANG | Associated Press ANTIOCH — For one afternoon, on Antioch’s main street and tranquil riverbank, the fragrance of burning incense was paired with the …
California community college baccalaureate degree programs are prompting academic success, fewer student loans and better-paying jobs among Latino graduates, allowing them to overcome historic inequities in educational attainment and financial …
Ronnie Cohen | (TNS) KFF Health News In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to …
SAN FRANCISCO — A judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to block the University of California from renaming the former Hastings College of the Law because its namesake …
Lawmakers in California have revealed a sweeping set of legislative proposals aimed at providing reparations for state residents who are descendants of enslaved Africans. The California Legislative Black Caucus announced the 2024 Reparations Priority Bill Package …
For most K-12 student groups in California, test scores have been maddeningly flat since the pandemic. But for Black students, stagnant scores have been particularly frustrating: Black students’ math and …
California police will soon be required to tell drivers why they’ve stopped them before they can start asking questions. The new bill, A.B. 2773, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2024, …
Jenny Jarvie | (TNS) Los Angeles Times The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was best known for its sit-ins against segregation in the Deep South. But in the summer of 1967, …
By LAURA UNGAR | AP Science Writer Regulators on Friday approved two new gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that …
When historian Deborah Lipstadt defeated a libel suit brought against her in a British court by Holocaust denier David Irving in April 2000, it was almost possible to imagine that …