[rewind] The California Genocide No One Talks About
UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley’s book details the killing of tens of thousands of Native Americans as the state was being settled in the 19th century.
Uber and Lyft Bought Their Own Labor Law With a Historic Money Dump
The companies won an expensive victory in California with the passage of Proposition 22, but it's workers who will pay the highest price.
The Devil’s Harvest: The Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley
Journalist Jessica Garrison's new book depicts a tableau of drug trafficking, sexual violence, revenge, the bonds of kinship, the vagaries of police work and local news, and seven kinds of…
View from Death Row: We Are the Living Dead
For weeks, prisoners at San Quentin have been sick and dying as the epidemic spread rapidly in the crowded, stacked cells. Then the author fell ill, too.
Gov. Newsom Made a Cynical Gamble on Prisons During the Pandemic — and Californians Will Pay with Their Lives
The Democratic governor's unwillingness to release prisoners has allowed a viral conflagration which threatens the Bay Area and beyond.
View from Death Row: The Disproportionate Blues
We African Americans have often been told that times have changed. We are tired of pretending.
Kevin Cooper: Those Eyes
In the history of racist violence against Blacks, something remained the same in those oppressors, across time and place.
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Kevin Cooper: Is California About to Execute an Innocent Man?
Kevin Cooper was convicted of a 1983 quadruple murder and sentenced to death in a trial in which evidence that might have exonerated him was withheld from the defense. Visit…
Teacher Wisdom: K-12 Students Cannot Return to Campus This Fall
Physical distancing at schools is impossible. Now is the time to prepare robust distance learning and close the technology gap.
Why California Needs an Innocence Commission
To a large degree, DNA testing has proven that this criminal justice system is not as just as it claims to be. Throughout the history of this country, black people…
Life on Lockdown
The coronavirus pandemic that has spread across this world has made the experience of having to live on lockdown against one's will a reality for all people who certainly never…
[rewind] Will Evans: Elon Musk Is Gaslighting America
The award-winning journalist who exposed Tesla's flagrant labor violations reflects on having his work dismissed as "disinformation."
Kevin Cooper: Experiencing COVID-19 on Death Row
A letter from Kevin Cooper to Death Penalty Focus.
Tommy Newman: The Homegrown Crisis California Refuses to Own
One of the wealthiest, most liberal states in America has created a humanitarian emergency that only those who caused it can address.
Jeff Adachi: How America Came to Have the World’s Biggest Prison Population
The Japanese-American public defender tells how his family's past affects his present and reveals why he withdrew his support of California's new bail law.