An interview inspired by Maasai Jones (no relation to Chappie) and a poem he wrote before his passing, “A Diet Racist.”

Unless the Valley Water board rejects the request for “an endless tax,” voters should reject the agency’s parcel tax measure this fall.

Congress has the ability to act right now; we need to make sure our electeds know that anything less than immediate action is unacceptable.

Without more funding for elections, voters may not be able to make their voices heard in one of the most important elections of our lifetime.

The passing of Measure A was all about our collective commitment to build places for the folks who had nowhere else to go.  

The city’s decision to “demobilize” FEMA trailers for the unhoused can only be summed up as a shameful debacle lacking any transparency. 

Hundreds of public defense attorneys from throughout the country speak out in solidarity with their colleague in Santa Clara County.

When it comes to addressing the needs of people who make up the city’s diversity, leaders respond with empty gestures, ineffective policies.

Together with families of people killed by police, Silicon Valley De-Bug came up with a practical guide for defunding the San Jose PD.

A local professor calls Hillside Church minister’s use of the pulpit (albeit it a virtual one) opportunistic, insensitive and alarming.

Keith Crosby, the pastor of Hillside Church in San Jose, urges Santa Clara County to ease public health rules on places of worship.

To all black prosecutors, please understand that black people need you. But we need to you to join us in our call for true justice.

For black people to achieve equal justice, we need to be a part of every aspect of the criminal justice system that directly affects us.

When stakeholders can more easily participate in public meetings, governments get better results and our collective trust in institutions grows.

To DA’s offices, black lives—no matter what they tell you—do not truly matter except to rack up convictions and fill prisons.

Isn’t this the moment to start policing our community differently by not actively policing them—especially with armed cops?