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Sacramento, CA — In a bold shift toward equity and community power, the First 5 Sacramento Commission has approved $4,172,410 in funding for 35 community-based ...

“Threads of Belonging” is a new temporary public art installation planned for South Sacramento, featuring an 8-by-30-foot handwoven mural that reflects the textile traditions of Palestinian, Filipino ...

MARGRATEN, Netherlands (AP) — Ever since a U.S. military cemetery in the southern Netherlands removed two displays recognizing Black troops who helped to liberate Europe from the Nazis, visitors have ...

A growing number of Black residents, many of them elderly, are living alone in the Sacramento region. In 2024, almost 23,000 Black residents in the Sacramento region lived alone, according to new ...

It’s the benchmark of success, a milestone of responsible adulthood, a time-tested way to amass wealth for you and your progeny. Homeownership, we’re told again and again, is a status that every right ...

Roughly a thousand volunteers, outreach workers and local leaders fanned out across Sacramento on Monday and Tuesday as the region launched its 2026 Point-in-Time Count, an effort to document how many ...

(NNPA) – “The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose to commit crimes, and that’s why they are locked up ...