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Legal Advocacy Stops a Racially Exclusionary Scholarship at UC San Diego

October 30, 2025 2:06 pmOctober 30, 2025 2:06 pm

Wenyuan Wu In the case of a joint legal challenge to halt the Black Alumni Scholarship Fund, a 42-year-old program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the wheels of justice turned quickly. Almost immediately after our lawsuit Californians...

Florida is Right to End Vaccine Mandates; Now Every State Should Follow

October 8, 2025 3:30 amOctober 8, 2025 3:31 am

When Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and Governor Ron DeSantis announced plans to eliminate vaccine mandates across the state—some through administrative rule changes, others through future legislative action—they did more than propose new policy. They reminded the nation that the...

Fighting White Supremacy Once Again, Ku Klux Klan Act is Challenging Race-based Scholarship at UCSD

August 4, 2025 10:10 amAugust 4, 2025 10:10 am

In 1871, over five years after the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Ohio Republican Congressman Samuel Shellabarger introduced the KKK Act as “An Act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.” The KKK Act was intended to...

Fresno School District Sued Over $12M Office of African American Academic Acceleration

March 7, 2025 3:52 pmMarch 7, 2025 3:52 pm

Racial tribalism is under legal assault in Fresno. The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation last week filed a lawsuit that says the Fresno Unified School District’s special remedial program for black students is illegally discriminating against the non-black students it...

Alameda County Clings to Discriminatory Legacy for Government Contracts

October 26, 2023 3:58 pmOctober 26, 2023 3:58 pm

Frederick Douglass, the American abolitionist and freedom fighter, fought tirelessly for equality under the law. In an 1857 speech condemning the Supreme Court’s thoroughly racist and ahistorical Dred Scott decision, he called for an America that keeps the promise stated...

Nine State Lawmakers Urge AG Bonta to Seek Removal of Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot

September 18, 2023 12:09 pmSeptember 18, 2023 12:14 pm

Eight Assemblymembers and a state Senator announced during the weekend that they have asked Attorney General Rob Bonta to not include former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican Primary ballot in California due to his alleged involvement in the...

Gov. Newsom, Democrats Targeting Legal Gun Owners Rather than Felons in New Bill

February 1, 2023 2:43 pmFebruary 1, 2023 4:48 pm

“Had Senate Bill 2 or its predecessor Senate Bill 918 been in effect it would not have stopped the tragic incidents it claims to, but it would put more Californians in harms way.” That is what Rick Travis of the...