Gabe Schneider
Gabe Schneider is a journalist from LA who writes about racial disparities and the built environment.
You can follow him on Twitter @gabemschneider.
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Nancy Pelosi’s Bid for Speaker Faces Opposition From Group of Democrats
While more progressive members of Congress may not be challenging Nancy Pelosi for speaker, they are making internal moves to fortify their position.
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California Legislature Passes Bill Requiring Medication Abortion at State Universities Amid Concerns From Campus Administrators (Updated)
Several student leaders said some of the fiercest critics advocating against the bill behind closed doors have been administrators within the University of California (UC) system.
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Barbara Lee’s Bid for House Leadership Could Usher in Ideological Shift for Democrats
"We want moral leaders," said Hawaii congressional candidate Kaniela Ing, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist.
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Did Ranked-Choice Voting Help Elect San Francisco’s First Black Woman as Mayor?
FairVote released a report in May showing increased candidate diversity in the Bay Area following the adoption of ranked-choice voting.
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The United States Deserves a Monument to Ida B. Wells
Regardless of the national conversation around the removal of Confederate statues, Wells' great-granddaughter believes that the journalist deserves a statue in her own right.
In Passing ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Bill, House Lawmakers Ignore Civil Rights Leaders
Civil rights groups believe that the U.S. Senate version of the bill, which establishes crimes against law enforcement as hate crimes, is significantly worse.
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New York’s Governor Restored Voting Rights to Those on Parole. Why Did He Wait So Long?
A 2016 estimate by The Sentencing Project places the number of people in the United States disenfranchised due to a prior felony conviction at 6.1 million—or 2.5 percent of all people of voting age—a number that also includes 7.44 percent of Black people in the United States.
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Policy Shift Could Reform California’s ‘Culture of Police Killings’
Police kill more people in California than in any other state. From 2013 to 2017, there were 929 cases of police killings in California—primarily Black or Latinx men.
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California Is Running Out of Time to Curb Suspension Rates for Black and Brown Students
In 2014, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 420, which eliminated all willful defiance suspensions for grades K-3. But it is set to expire at the end of June unless new legislation re-establishes the same guidelines.
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