Alice Huffman was the first female president of the California State Conference of the NAACP. She helped accelerate the California NAACP into one of the most highly-respected African American organizations in California’s policy arena. #SacramentoBlackHistory

Grantland Johnson served on the Sacramento City Council and County Board of Supervisors, was a HHS Regional Director, and was the first African American Secretary of the CA Health & Human Services Agency. #SacramentoBlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2020

Today, I joined my colleagues in passing HJ Res 79 to facilitate ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. We are sending a clear message that we stand with our nation’s women and will not rest until we achieve constitutional equality! #ERANow

Elizabeth Thorn Scott Flood was California’s first African American public school teacher. She couldn’t enroll her son in public school, so she opened her own private school in her home, which was eventually changed to a public school. #SacramentoBlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

Archy Lee was brought to Sacramento from Mississippi as a slave, escaped, and fought a first-of-its-kind legal battle for his freedom. After a years-long roller coaster, a federal court declared him a free man in 1858. #SacramentoBlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

Congratulations to JFK High School students Katy Kragel, Lebron Acklen, and Zoe Blackmon for qualifying to the California Speech & Debate state competition! We know you’ll do us proud come April, and go Cougars!

Congratulations to JFK High School students Joseph Maucieri, Rohit Jhawar, Sara Faraj, Sean Allin, and Lily Rusk for qualifying to this year’s California Speech & Debate state championship! That’s 8 total from the school for the year!

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Here is a gift to white people who insist they know what Martin Luther King Jr. would have said. A thread

#blackoutuesday. Sharing a list of black-owned restaurants in Sacramento where you can get some lunch or dinner today. sacbee.com/food-drink/art…

We understand that people want to be sociable, but we ask that people be sensible – continue to social distance, practice safe hygiene, where a face covering while out & stay isolated if you are sick & take responsibility for your own health & the health of our community.

As it turns out, doing a fake political moral grandstand immediately after voting against that same moral principle doesn’t make you look smart or clever. It just makes you look like a child.

The national press' sudden obsession with court packing is interesting. Where was that interest when McConnell blocked all of President Obama's federal court nominees from 2015-2017, allowing Trump to inherit 100 vacancies and pack the courts with (mostly white male) GOP picks?

In a couple of months, we’ll be hearing impassioned speeches invoking the Founders to argue some executive order on health care is tyranny from people who were sitting quietly while this was going on. It’s not going to be possible to just go back to “normal” after this.

A dark irony is that Trump ran against “political correctness” and now every Trumpist has to double-check make sure their every utterance does not contradict the edicts of the god-king, especially if a new gospel contradicts the previous one

Growing up, my Muslim family never celebrated Christmas. This year I am not going home, because pandemic, so my roommates are teaching me how to have my first proper Christmas. I am approaching this with anthropological precision. Here are a few observations.