Erika D. Smith

For years, activists have been questioning what Black Lives Matter does with the donations it gets. Those questions have turned to accusations.

At a new city-run ‘safe ground’ in Sacramento, there is a focus on building community to get homeless people from encampments to stick around for help.

Los funcionarios electos de Los Ángeles consideran un éxito el cierre de un campamento en Echo Park. Los sin techo que acabaron en los hoteles no están de acuerdo.

L.A.'s elected officials see the shutdown of an Echo Park encampment as a success. The homeless people who ended up in hotels don’t agree.

California prides itself on distributing COVID-19 vaccines equitably. So why aren’t we working harder to vaccinate transgender residents?

Oakland is the latest U.S. city to launch a guaranteed income program. But it’s the only one to limit eligibility to Black and other people of color.

The shootings in Atlanta have prompted questions about who benefits from white supremacy. That it’s no one of color has made solidarity a lot easier.

In one victory, L.A. has renamed a playground for the Black teenager who was shot at a South Central liquor store in 1991

Republicans argue that welfare “entitlements” under the American Rescue Plan will lead to laziness. Stockton’s guaranteed income program proves otherwise.

La vacuna COVID-19 de Johnson & Johnson salvará vidas. Pero los funcionarios de salud pública deben abordar la falsa narrativa de que es una vacuna menor.