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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 ...

The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies through a database created by UC Berkeley and Stanford ...

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 ...