Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle

Oakland plans to provide free high-speed internet access for residents in public housing in an effort to close the digital divide, officials announced.

The Oakland Housing Authority plans to supply 1,117 households in the city’s five largest public housing communities with free wireless internet access by 2024, city officials said in a statement Saturday. Community rooms and areas will also have free Wi-Fi.

Black Latina Assemblymember Mia Bonta Leads With Intention

Genoa Barrow, Sacramento Observer

Each of the five Black women serving in the California Legislative Black Caucus talk about the importance of diversity and seeing others who “look like them” in the political space.

That has added meaning for Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland), featured in the fourth installment of our “A Powerful Sisterhood” series highlighting the contributions of past and present Black women lawmakers in California.

Cyrus Farivar, Forbes 

For Mia Bonta, a California state legislator, last summer’s Supreme Court decision overturning 50 years of abortion rights in the United States was something of a wakeup call.

Black Women In California Legislature Lead The Charge For Change

Genoa Barrow, The Observer

The Greek goddess Minerva appears on the state’s official seal, but some Californians point to a Black female warrior, Califia, as a symbol who encourages others to leave their mark on the state Capitol and seal the deal with laws that seek to improve life for all Californians.

Carrie Hahnel & Francis A. Pearman, EdSource

New school enrollment numbers in California point to an uncomfortable truth: California may have too many schools for its shrinking student population.

Mark Hedin, California Black Media - Oakland Post

Since Yvonne Braithwaite Burke became the first Black woman elected to serve in the California State Assembly in 1966, 20 other African American women have represented their constituents in both houses of the California State Legislature with distinction.

Many of them have gone on to make their marks in various political arenas at the state, local and national levels.

Sebastian Cahill, The Daily Californian

After a slew of bills aiming to decrease reproductive rights swept the nation post-Roe, members of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus announced 17 bills aiming to safeguard reproductive rights across the country March 13 in a press conference.