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Mandatory local hiring becomes law in San Francisco
Supervisor John Avalos’ landmark jobs legislation became official on Christmas morning by Brightline Defense Project San Francisco – A city ordinance authored by Supervisor John Avalos and passed by a...
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Mounting opposition confronts San Mateo’s anti-local hiring assemblyman
Jerry Hill proposes to limit the ability of cities to use local hire programs to help unemployed construction union members find work on public projects Mayor Ed Lee speaks with Aboriginal Blackmen...
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Conservatives keep anti-local hiring bill on life support as attack on...
Assembly Republicans carry San Mateo Assemblyman Jerry Hill and AB 356 into second hearing next week, as Democrats flee bill opposed by cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and over 30 civil and...
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Controversial anti-local hiring bill abandoned
Assembly Bill 356 sent to “inactive file” following statewide opposition, partnership between San Francisco and San Mateo counties by Brightline Defense Project June 3, 2011 — While Assemblymember...
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Mr. President, three wishes of a Black American
by Eva Paterson Nov. 6, 2012 – The election that ended tonight took several years off my life. Between the blatant racism of the Romney-Ryan campaign – such as calling Barack Obama the “food stamp”...
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Ninth Circuit upholds Caltrans equal opportunity program to counter...
by Candice Francis, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Darrell Evans works on Liberty Builders’ only public works contract in 15 years, a small subcontract in 2010. Blacks have been locked out of...
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Trayvon Martin and implicit bias
by Eva Paterson As we continue to struggle with the verdict in this murder case – as the only juror of color states that George Zimmerman “got away with murder” and as the nation lurches through yet...
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Wanda’s Picks for September 2013
by Wanda Sabir We remember George Duke, Margaret Marian McPartland and Cedar Walton, who joined the ancestors before many of us were ready to let them go. Our condolences to their families. The New...
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One billion in potential contract dollars lost annually by businesses owned...
by Keith Kamisugi, Equal Justice Society Sacramento – California’s minority and women business enterprises (MWBEs) have lost the potential equivalent of $1 billion in public contracts because of...
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Standing Rock: Militarized police from 5 states escalate violence, shoot...
by Sacred Stone Camp Cannonball, N.D., Oct. 28, 2016 – Over 300 police officers in riot gear, eight ATVs, five armored vehicles, two helicopters and numerous military-grade humvees showed up north of...
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ACA 5 to reinstate affirmative action moves to Appropriations Committee
At the March 10 press conference to announce the filing of ACA 5 to return affirmative action to California are, at the podium, Vincent Pan, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action,...
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YES on Prop 16: ‘All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet...
Fred Jordan, president of the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce, has long been a force for economic justice in the Bay Area. – Photo: Johnnie Burrell by Lin Robertson Eva Paterson,...
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