Daily Archives: April 8, 2009
Assembly Member Carter introduces anti-noose legislation
"Passage of this anti-noose law will be a sign that our state is prepared to confront a visual symbol of America's racist and violent history," said California Assembly Member Wilmer Amina Carter after she introduced a measure that would make it a crime to display a noose in a threatening manner.
Newsom ignores voters: $2.7 million poverty court opens on Polk Street
Notwithstanding a blistering defeat at the polls and strong opposition from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom has opened his Community Justice Center, diverting several million dollars from essential City services to incarcerate poor people for the sole act of being poor.
Pens and pistols: an interview wit’ Ebony Sparks, author of ‘Lessons Learned …’
Ebony Colbert Sparks is one of the most talented writers that I've met. She is the personification of "you can do anything you put your mind to."