Nonprofits Adapt to Demographic Shift
News Report, Chanelle Ignant Every Thursday at the West County First 5 center in Richmond, a group of ten to twelve moms gathers to discuss the issues that matter most to...
Racist Remarks Put Obscure Elected Official Under Spotlight
Racist statements about African and Asian Americans made by West County Wastewater District director Leonard Battaglia, who was quoted in a news report, have led some Richmond city officials to...
Why I’ll Practice Safe Texting
Commentary • Poojan Dave From the spoken word, to written letters to dial-up phones, humans have always sought new ways to communicate with one another. Today, it seems that texting is...
Richmond Mayor Denounces ‘Dirty Hand of Chevron’
Video, Malcolm Marshall Ed. Note: On Tuesday Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin led a crowd of protestors in denouncing Chevron Corp., which was recently fined $18 billion by a court in Ecuador....
Pope’s Positive Message More Likely to Attract Young Minds
Commentary, William Haynes By now you’ve probably heard that the Catholic Church has a new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, of Argentina, who took on the name Francis when he assumed...
What Electricity Choices Could Look Like
News Feature, Laura Flynn • New America Media/KALW Editor's Note: In 2002 the California legislature passed AB 117 allowing cities and counties to become electric service providers to residents in their...
As Obesity Grows, Mexico Eyes Richmond-Style Soda Tax
News Report • Edgardo Cervano-Soto MEXICO CITY – A proposed citywide “soda tax” failed to win enough votes in Richmond, Calif. in 2012, but that hasn’t stopped other U.S. cities, and...
Q&A: Mayor McLaughlin Talks Eminent Domain, Ecuador
Interview, RP Editors RP: What do homeowners facing foreclosure in Richmond need to know right now about the city's plan to invoke eminent domain? Mayor Gayle McLaughlin: We call it the Cares...
Punishment Fits the Crime for Teen Who Videotaped Murder
Commentary, Alicia Marie In this age of social media, it seems there is no limit to the types of extreme -- even violent -- acts people will videotape and post on...
Poverty Rate Holding Steady, But Fewer Children Uninsured
News Report, Anna Challet |New America Media While poverty remains at historically high levels, the percentage of people in the United States – especially children – who lack health insurance is...
Remembering the Four Little Girls
Blog, Monet Boyd It was Sunday morning, September 15, 1963 and the roaring sound of dynamite rang through Birmingham, Alabama, coming from the 16th Street Baptist Church. A fourteen year old boy...
Richmond Forges Ahead with First-in-the-Nation Plan to Seize Underwater Mortgages
Leer en Español News Report • Anna Challet Richmond will move forward with its plans to seize underwater mortgages using eminent domain, raising the stakes in a test case of whether a...
In Asthma Plagued County, a Move Toward Prevention
Leer en Español News Report, Malcolm Marshall Richmond High School senior Maribel Navarro remembers what it felt like to have to go to the emergency room every time she had an asthma...
New School Year Brings New Academic Standards
By Antoinette J. Evans If all goes according to plan, Richmond public schools -- and the students they serve -- will have something positive to...
