Let’s not conflate white supremacy with white people
Jason Yen/Staff
W.E.B. Du Bois suggested more than 80 years ago that the United States chose white supremacy over democracy. Today we have an opportunity to correct that.
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Amy Coney Barrett becomes 5th ‘very conservative’ Supreme Court justice
Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed by a vote of 52-48 to the United States Supreme Court Monday, becoming the fifth conservative justice on the Court.
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ASUC to dedicate senate chambers to Courtney Brousseau
The ASUC Senate Inter-semester Committee met Wednesday and passed four resolutions, including one to rename the senate chambers in Eshleman Hall to the Courtney Garg Brousseau Chambers.
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2020 vision for disability rights
While disabled people legally have the right to vote, there are a lot of practical challenges.
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Californians know birth control matters, must protect access
Nov. 13 was “Thanks, Birth Control Day,” a day when we can all highlight the positive impacts that contraception has had on our lives and communities.
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UC Berkeley study predicts increase in number of uninsured Californians without state action
Without further state action, the rate of insured Californians could decrease and leave more than 4 million nonelderly Californians without health insurance by 2023, according to a study published Nov. 27 by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.
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State elections: Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom projected to win California governor race; Eleni Kounalakis projected to win lieutenant governor race
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is projected to win the race for California governor, while former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Eleni Kounalakis is leading in the lieutenant governor race as of press time at 12:23 a.m. Wednesday.
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Students deserve equitable access to reproductive health care and contraceptives
As a physician, CEO and co-founder of a birth control delivery company with a passion for reproductive justice, I am disheartened by recent political events — from Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation to the most recent action by Gov. Jerry Brown. At the end of September, the governor of one
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‘No. 1 issue in the elections’: Larry Levitt speaks about health care at Berkeley Forum event
Larry Levitt, senior vice president for health reform at the Kaiser Family Foundation, spoke about the “No. 1 issue in the elections” — health care — at a Berkeley Forum event Wednesday.
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Berkeley Health Report lacks data on LGBTQ+, immigrant communities
The city of Berkeley recently completed the 2018 Health Status Report, assessing a broad range of data to better understand the social inequities of health conditions affecting our community, assess prevention efforts and identify emerging health threats. This information is crucial because if we can better understand not just the
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