Meet the Bay Area publisher who has spent her career elevating Black voices - including Kamala Harris
Laura Lane
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Amelia Ashley-Ward, publisher of San Francisco’s oldest Black newspaper, the Sun-Reporter, sits for a portrait surrounded by images of the publication s iconic founder, civil rights leader Dr. Carlton Goodlett in 2020.Jen Siska
After Kamala Harris gave the speech of her life on Nov. 7 declaring victory in the election and cementing herself as the first African American, first South Asian and first woman to be elected vice president one of her good friends back in San Francisco sent her a text.
In a statement on Friday, Breed said that the city is expanding the Mobile Response Team (MRT), which provides personalised mental health and wellness services for children and youth, including in-person interventions during the pandemic, reports Xinhua news agency.The
Editorial: What s keeping California s schools closed
Chronicle Editorial Board
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First-graders at Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy in Sausalito.John Storey / Special to the Chronicle
The Legislature has greeted Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to reopen the state’s shuttered schools with all the respectful attention of a Zoom-mediated kindergarten class. Compounding the governor’s troubles, the California Teachers Association demanded this week that its members be vaccinated before they go back to work, raising another sore subject: the state’s laggard, haphazard vaccine rollout, which looks to have little chance of achieving such a goal before another school year ends.
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Then, a wave of coronavirus cases pushed San Francisco and nearby counties to clamp down on social gatherings once again. It was just the latest setback for a slew of Bay Area small businesses struggling to offset Covid-19 s financial toll and navigate ever-shifting restrictions. That sort of glimmer of hope.was gone so quickly, Crabbe said. With 2020, you just had to set your expectations so low. Why would things get back to normal?
Despite some stronger-than-expected macroeconomic indicators throughout the fall, the economic picture across the U.S. has once again dimmed. In December, American employers slashed 140,000 jobs, while consumer spending fell for the third consecutive month. The U.S. has regained only about 45% of the economic ground lost in the first half of 2020. Of the 22 million jobs that disappeared last March, 10 million have yet to return.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has announced that the city is expanding mental health support for students and their families amid the raging coronavirus pandemicIn a statement on Friday, Breed said that the city is expanding the Mobile .