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A growing movement recasts Oct. 11 as a day to appreciate the diversity and history of Indigenous communities. That visibility, say Native Americans, can help us see what else needs to change. -
Anne Wernikoff/CalMattersAfter a years-long battle reignited in recent months by controversies over misunderstandings of critical race theory, California students will soon be required to take ethnic studies to graduate high school.
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A final round of door knocking for a follow-up survey is now set to last until early 2022, raising concerns about whether the bureau can determine which groups were undercounted in the 2020 census. -
Acknowledgement of Native American land at SOU
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The Keenest Observer
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Nadine Seiler, one of those who watched over a fence at what became Black Lives Matter Plaza, is working to find homes for more than 700 artifacts that once covered the structure near the White House.
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Last year, protesters tore down a controversial statue of Spanish missionary Junipero Serra at the state capitol in Sacramento. New legislation makes way for a monument to Native people in its place.
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A new initiative to reconsider discriminatory names on public features in California has led to the renaming of Patrick’s Point State Park in Humboldt County. The park is now called Sue-Meg State Park. The name change comes at the request of the Yurok tribe.
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Reimagine Oregon — a coalition of Black community leaders — says it's committed to holding state and local government accountable to Black Oregonians calling for widespread reform and improved opportunity.
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The group, designed to examine what reparations might look like and compile educational resources about slavery and its impact, met late last week.
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All throughout California, communities have weathered the impacts of a changing climate from rising ocean waters to intense wildfire seasons. But studies don’t often account for tribes’ experiences with climate change because of the “academic-based” approach of Western science.
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Essays on race and America
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Party planners say they are overrun by families who still want the traditional ceremony, which has taken on a new meaning — the celebration of life, and the remembrance of loss.
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In the summer of 2020, after racial justice protests roiled Klamath Falls and many other American cities, the Klamath Falls City Council created a task force to examine local issues of racial and social fairness and advise city government on ways to make the city more equitable. Last week, the mayor and city council decided not to continue the group.
