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COVID-19 has been difficult for everyone, but immigrant rights activists in Sonoma County say the pandemic is hitting the undocumented and the Latinx community the hardest. Many undocumented immigrants still haven’t recovered from the 2017 and 2019 wildfires. Now, they struggle to make the rent, homeschool kids, and stay safe without access to federal aid. KRCB’s Camille Escovedo reports.  […]

      

COVID-19 has been difficult for everyone, but immigrant rights activists in Sonoma County say the pandemic is hitting the undocumented and the Latinx community the hardest. Many undocumented immigrants still haven’t

recovered from the 2017 and 2019 wildfires. Now, they struggle to make the rent, homeschool kids, and stay safe without access to federal aid. KRCB’s Camille Escovedo reports.

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The Santa Rosa City Schools Board is deciding today whether to make ethnic studies a requirement for graduation. Omar Medina is a board director and has long been an advocate for equity and inclusion in education. He spoke with KRCBs Adia White about how soon the requirement could be implemented and the impact he hopes it will […]

      

The Santa Rosa City Schools Board is deciding today whether to make ethnic studies a requirement for graduation. Omar Medina is a board director and has long been an advocate

for equity and inclusion in education. He spoke with KRCBs Adia White about how soon the requirement could be implemented and the impact he hopes it will have on students.

To learn more about DACA, watch our documentary “An Uncertain Future: Connecting With Dreamers in Our Community” Saturday on KRCB TV at 7 p.m. Find out more at norcalpublicmedia.org https://media.krcb.org/podcast/north_bay_report/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/NBR_Medina2-way_6.24.20.mp3

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Black Lives Matters protests have continued in Sonoma County for nearly a month now. On Saturday night, more than 100 people camped out in Old Courthouse Square demanding policy changes, like defunding the city’s police department. The City of Santa Rosa’s budget shows a proposed increase in funding for the police and will be discussed […]

      

Black Lives Matters protests have continued in Sonoma County for nearly a month now. On Saturday night, more than 100 people camped out in Old Courthouse Square demanding policy changes, like

defunding the city’s police department. The City of Santa Rosa’s budget shows a proposed increase in funding for the police and will be discussed at city council over zoom starting at 4 today.

Many protesters are also calling for reparations to compensate the country’s formerly enslaved people. James Morrison of Duke University’s Ways and Means podcast explains what a U.S. policy of reparations might look like.

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Sonoma County will host its Juneteenth celebration over zoom this year. In the midst of protests against police brutality and a pandemic, the celebration of the end of slavery won’t feel the same as it has in previous years. Nancy Rogers has served as the chair of the festival for the past twenty years.  KRCB’s Adia […]

      

Healdsburg Mayor Leah Gold has resigned – effective at the end of June. This was the result of a controversy over what some in the community saw as racial insensitivity. To unpack what happened, news director Steve Mencher talked with Healdsburg Tribune reporter Katherine Minkiewicz. For links to Katherine Minkiewicz’s article about this story, and […]

      

Protests against police brutality have continued to gain momentum throughout the nation. Protesters in Sonoma County have marched nearly every day over the past three weeks against police brutality and systemic racism. Equity and inclusion for marginalized communities have taken the forefront in the marches.  KRCB’s Adia White reports. For more coverage of Black lives […]

      

Latinos in Sonoma County are now nine times more likely to become infected with coronavirus than white residents. On Thursday, Latino leadership organization Los Cien hosted a virtual Town Hall to discuss this disparity. In this excerpt from the event, co-moderator Oscar Pardo asked Sonoma County Health Director Barbie Robinson what the County is doing […]