On Tuesday night, before Oakland school board members voted to shutter seven schools over the next two years in front of 1,700 Zoom onlookers, dozens of enraged students and parents in the predominantly Black and Latino school district plead for the district to halt a plan that would upend the lives of more than 2,700 […]
Author: Edwin Rios
“I Was Trying to Protect My Family”
Sasha Taylor believes the COVID vaccine will keep her family together. Back in late February, Taylor, a Black 32-year-old mother of three living in Washington, DC, contracted COVID. Soon after, her 10-year-old daughter, Acia, who suffers from spastic quadriplegia, a lung disorder, and glaucoma, got it, too. The virus, on top of Acia’s chronic conditions […]