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When the pandemic first hit, Lexis-Olivier Ray began seeing handwashing stations pop up around Los Angeles neighborhoods. It didn’t take long for him to notice that the stations, advertised by city leaders as a means of halting the spread of COVID-19 among the unhoused community, were not being maintained

During the general election, your vote selects the final candidate for a given elective office and determines which ballot propositions pass or fail. California Black Power Network has provided a November election facts sheet located below:

The Sum of Us is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing, materially rich but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. McGhee marshals economic and sociological research to paint an irrefutable story of racism’s costs, but at the heart of the book are the humble stories of people yearning to be part of a better America, including white supremacy’s collateral victims: white people themselves. With startling empathy, this heartfelt message from a Black woman to a multiracial America leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than zero-sum.

This article is an update of the original White Supremacy Culture article published in 1999. While I wrote the words on the pages that became the White Supremacy Culture article all those years ago, I want to make it clear that I do not consider the original article or the website that is an extension of the article, my work. I feel a sense of stewardship rather than of ownership.

This article is the first article of Community Strategies for Systemic Change, a series that is being co-produced by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and NPQ. In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change.

Households across America are facing barriers to affordable housing, delayed healthcare, and problems affording food—with these trends being acutely felt among Black, Latino, and Native American families.