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Food as Medicine Initiative Launches at State Capitol


 

Oakland to offer free internet for public housing residents to bridge digital divide

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.

Leader ‘Identifies’ Opportunities For Collaboration

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.