Sunday Commentary: White Fragility Underlies the Debate over District Elections
For years, I heard complaints from people of color, both seeing it on surveys and hearing it…
Guest Commentary: ‘The Other Davis’
By Matt Williams For reasons that are wholly unrelated to what I found, I was looking through…
My View: Race Really Is the Driving Force in Politics
A number of commenters and even political leaders have attempted to downplay the issue of race in…
Monday Morning Thoughts: A Lot of Unfounded Arguments against District Elections
One official from the city told me a few weeks ago that they had thought the school…
Sunday Commentary: Trump Using Hot Buttons to Attempt Reelection
Following the president’s tweet attacks on four liberal Democratic women of color and the backlash against the…
Sunday Commentary: The Expansion of NIMBYISM into Zoning
A reader pointed us back to a 2018 commentary from the New York Times, “How ‘Not in…
Sunday Commentary: Gilligan, Sentencing and the Specter of White Privilege
On Thursday, Hayley Gilligan plead no contest to a revised charge of voluntary manslaughter, thus avoiding a…
Parents, Students and Community Leaders Come Before the Board Pushing for Ethnic Studies
Two weeks ago, Melissa Moreno spoke to the Davis School Board about the need for ethnic studies…
What Officer Noor’s Conviction Says about Racism in America
By Carl Takei and Paige Fernandez On Tuesday, April 30, a Minnesota jury convicted police officer Mohamed…
Childhood Racial Education the Focus of the 25th City MLK Day
On Monday, the City of Davis hosted it’s 25th annual MLK Day Celebration at the Varsity Theatre. …
Does the Second Amendment Protect Only White Gun Owners?
By Carl Takei and Paige Fernandez The most common refrain from gun rights supporters in the wake…
Sunday Commentary: Understanding Davis’ Racial and Ethnic Breakdown and What We Can Do
Earlier last week on the Vanguard we had a prolonged discussion of the racial and ethnic breakdown…
Commentary: Getting to the Root of Davis’ Longstanding Problem with Race
This past year I read the book, The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein. He writes about…
My View: Is It Time to Rethink How Our Land Use Policies Intersect with Our Purported Values?
In June of 2016, Davis voters narrowly voted for Bernie Sanders who received 54.5 percent of the…
Sunday Commentary: Would Kirk-Coehlo Have Received Prison Time if She Were Black?
Our discussion of the Lauren Kirk-Coehlo matter brought up an interesting issue that has generated some considerable…
Justice Watch: Race in the Criminal Justice System
Mass incarceration contributes significantly to the racial achievement gap A report last week from the Economic Policy…
Justice Watch: How Race Pervades the Criminal Justice System
Bill Quigley, Loyola University New Orleans Law Professor, gives 18 examples of how race pervades the criminal…
Analysis: What to Make of Study on Police Shootings and Use of Force
The headline in the New York Times read “Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of…
Commentary: Tragic Killings Are a Warning
Two separate police shootings on Tuesday and Wednesday led to a series of protests across the country,…
Marijuana Infractions Unevenly Enforced Against People of Color in California
(ACLU Press Release) – New data analyses conducted by the Drug Policy Alliance and ACLU of California…
