Video | Punishment | Public Safety | Abolition | Incarceration | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Dortell Williams
Prevention, Not Prisons
Dortell Williams, who has spent more than 30 years in prison, reflects on the true causes of crime.
California
AI Can’t Fix Our Broken Health Care System, But People Can
AI is trained on data from our health care system as it exists, which means the data is contaminated by racial, economic, and regional disparities. But there are solutions.
Land as Reparations
Author and activist Brea Baker explores why Black land ownership is a critical aspect of reparations for Black Americans.
As Summer Swelters, Can Workers Get Heat Protections?
As temperatures continue to rise, California workers, worker protection groups, and state regulators are making progress on implementing heat regulations.
Going Back Outside for Pride
We can no longer accept Pride events that only make room for one type of queer person—or that cater primarily to the corporations more invested in rainbow capitalism than collective liberation.
Video | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Sage Regenerative Kitchen | Sage Vegan Bistro | regenerative farming
Why This Vegan Restaurant Introduced Meat
Sage Regenerative Kitchen’s executive chef explains why she added meat to the menu—and why she believes so deeply in regenerative farming.
Video | Dortell Williams | Mass Incarceration | Jail | Father's Day | Incarceration | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali
Marking Father’s Day From Behind Bars
Father’s Day is a special time for many families. But what about those families separated by incarceration?
Planning Parenthood for Incarcerated Men
An innovative sex-ed curriculum in Southern California is teaching incarcerated men about consent, birth control, and dismantling masculinity.
Opinion | Education | Parenting | George Floyd | Oakland | School to Prison Pipeline | Defunding Police | school
How Black Parents Got Cops Out of Oakland Schools
After adopting the George Floyd Resolution for Police-Free Schools, Oakland-area schools saw significant reductions in racist criminalization of Black and Brown kids.
Video | Abolition | Pennsylvania | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Life Without Parole | Dortell Williams | Criminal Justice Reform
Facing Life Without Parole Inside a California Prison
Recent reforms in prison communications have allowed Dortell Williams, serving a life sentence without parole in California, to share his experience face-to-face for the first time.
Can California Kids Get Specialty Care Sooner?
Children are more likely to survive when treated by pediatric specialists than those trained to treat adults; but there’s a shortage of these specialists in California and nationwide.
The Water Came Early
Grappling with the fantasy and memory of flooding on California’s last remaining almond farm.
6 Ways California Can Help Kids With Disabilities Get Care
Experts and disability justice advocates say these changes could help more California families with children who have complex medical needs access the care they‘re entitled to.
A Day in the Life of Parents Caring for a Child With Complex Medical Needs
California offers a suite of programs intended to help parents access medically necessary care for their children, but enrollment is complex, time-consuming, and full of bureaucratic red tape.
Will California Take Reparations to the Finish Line?
Journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan surveys the state’s reparations process and examines whether there will be compensation to Black Californians for racial harm.
Will California Do Reparations Right?
California is closer than any other state to realizing reparations for Black people. Now, the state faces a make-or-break moment.
Analysis | Kingmakers of Oakland | Reparations | Youth Mentoring Action Network | Chicago | Oakland | Realizing Reparations | Black Youth Project | Black Youth
Spaces As Reparations for Black Youth
Investing in programs, resources, and physical spaces by and for Black youth is critical to narrowing generationally inherited disparities in wealth, health, and beyond.
Centering the Dignity of L.A.’s Unhoused
Unhoused people in Los Angeles just survived a massive storm. What can the city do about housing before the next extreme weather event?
What Could the U.S. Fund Without War?
Just 3% of U.S military spending could eradicate world starvation, according to a new crop of anti-war billboards.
Learning to Love What Nourishes My Son
For this California mom, supporting her medically complex son’s relationship with food meant relinquishing control and embracing what worked.
Opinion | Disability Justice | Disabled Children | Medi-Cal | Disabled Youth | Home and Community Based Alternatives Waiver
California Shouldn’t Ration Care for Disabled Kids
What good is a waiver program intended to help families access in-home care for medically fragile children if the program is full?
California Offers a Lifeline for Children With Long-Term Health Conditions
California’s Enhanced Care Management program, offered through Medi-Cal, could help parents who are caring for children with complex physical, behavioral, and social needs.
Taking Back the Power (Literally)
Frontline communities from California to Puerto Rico lead the fight for energy democracy.
The Not-So-Rebellious Youth Revolution Coming to Your County
Data from rural Placer County, California, mirrors a larger national trend that shows fewer teen pregnancies, reduced youth crime rates, and higher educational attainment.
California Runs the Numbers on Reparations
A task force calculated how much Black residents should receive for systemic, state-sanctioned discrimination and ongoing harm.
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