Access better health with medically tailored meals, transforming health through nutrition for Medi-Cal patients
Launched in 2018, the Medically Tailored Meals pilot program was designed to help Medi-Cal patients with congestive heart failure by reducing hospital readmissions and...
Embracing doula care: A new benefit for Bay Area Medi-Cal members
As part of the Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS) ongoing commitment to engaging in innovative work to improve the maternal health care landscape,...
Empowering young minds: Medi-Cal’s enhanced mental health services for Bay Area youth
Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, covers one in three Californians, including more than 50 percent of the state's youth. In California, nearly 300,000 youth are...
Medi-Cal Expanding Support For Californians Experiencing Asthma
Starting in January, California will embark on an ambitious experiment to control asthma in its most vulnerable patients. Medi-Cal will offer recipients unconventional in-home...
Israel a society of human shields
Hamas can't hold a candle to an entire society used as human shields.
Discover Medi-Cal’s Vital Supports for Californians Experiencing or at Risk of Homelessness
Enhanced Care Management takes a whole-person, interdisciplinary approach to care to address clinical and non-clinical needs of members with the most complex medical and...
Crash the DNC’s party
As one who was on the streets protesting the Vietnam War, I knew that it was imperative to let the Vietnamese know we were in solidarity with them, and the Palestinians deserve no less.
Grants Pass is NOT for sale
We resist and refuse this recent legal decision on Grants Pass that will allow, enable, condone and promote the ongoing violent criminalization of our bodies and our lives; instead we demand reparations for the land theft, ableism, classism, border terrorism and violent police terror.
Israel’s ‘useful idiots’ are the US Congress and the Biden administration
“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating – the images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety .... We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. ... And I will not be silent." - Kamala Harris
Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Student protest movement ignites Bangladesh
Bangladesh's ruling party is using the expanded quota system to embed its operatives into every sphere of state activities. Hundreds of students protesting it have been killed.
President Biden has Parkinson’s Disease
President Biden exhibits clear signs of Parkinson’s in his rigid gait, his mumbling speech, his frozen facial expressions and about 12 YouTube video compilations of his falls.
Imprisoned workers sue Alabama to abolish involuntary servitude
A notorious prison system, Alabama’s is the most overcrowded in the country, operating at over 168% capacity
The San Francisco Black Film Festival is back and better than ever!
The festival will be held on June 13 through 16. Be there! https://www.sfbff.org/
Calif. Senate passes landmark package of three reparations bills
“After two years of thorough examination by the California Reparations Task Force, we are finally translating words into action,” remarked Sen. Bradford.
Unseen billions: Every year, California makes a massive investment in jails and probation, with...
The data that are available paint a consistent picture: Law enforcement agencies are receiving the vast majority of funds.
Remembering Eddie Kittrell (1951-2023): Nationally known public housing advocate and
Eddie hoped that a focus on family, as opposed to crime or violence, would become integral to understanding the concept of public housing as a place of community.
‘At the United Nations, the flag of human rights still flies at half-mast’
For nearly 80 years, US officials at the UN have reliably and loyally raised their hands to veto any resolution to prevent or limit genocide when that resolution challenges US or Israel’s dominance.
Mrs. Sadie Williams @100, still going strong
Mrs. Sadie Williams celebrates a century of life surrounded by loved ones.
How prison officials manufactured gangs and gang wars in Virginia’s prisons
by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson
No Virginia prison gangs before 2004
With the prevalence of youth lumpen organizations (so called street gangs) in Virginia today, it’s hard...
Walking while Black: The inequitable intersection of racism at the intersection
Recent studies reveal ingrained prejudices and bias against Black pedestrians