Saturday, December 21, 2024

Sunita Sohrabji

Sunita Sohrabji is the Health Editor at Ethnic Media Services.

California’s Community Health Clinics Face Deep Budget Cuts

California’s community health clinics, a critical lifeline for low-income residents, are facing possible budget cuts in 2025.

Where Breathing is Easy – Open Spaces are Critical for Public Health

Measure T seeks to renew Measure Q, which has allowed the County to preserve North Coyote Valley from the hands of developers.

WHO’S REALLY PAYING FOR THAT $10 UBER RIDE? SURPRISE: IT’S YOUR DRIVER

From left to right: Dr. Veena Dubal, Professor of Law at the U.C. Hastings School of Law. Dr. Dubal; Dr. Alexandrea Ravenelle, Professor in...

對全球低收入民眾而言 氣候變遷是新冠疫情的追熱導彈

From left to right: Dr. Anthony LeRoy Westerling, Professor of Management of Complex Systems, UC Merced; Dr. Rajendra Shende, Chairman of TERRE Policy Centre...

Climate Change is the Heat-Seeking Missile of Covid Pandemic for Low Income People Around the World

From left to right: Dr. Anthony LeRoy Westerling, Professor of Management of Complex Systems, UC Merced; Dr. Rajendra Shende, Chairman of TERRE Policy Centre...

ASIAN AMERIAN VOTERS SUPPORT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BUT UNDECIDED ON CALIFORNIA’S PROP 16

From left to right: Vincent Pan, Executive Director, Chinese for Affirmative Action, a community based social justice organization in San Francisco; Eva Paterson, President...

AAPI VOTERS DIVIDED ON PRESIDENTIAL SUPPORT

By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor Almost half of Vietnamese Americans will vote to re-elect President Donald Trump Nov. 3, while two-thirds of Indian Americans will...

Deadline Approaches for Registration of U.S. Citizens Wanting to Vote from Abroad

By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor U.S. citizens residing outside the country can vote in the November general election, but must request a ballot by Sept....

RACIAL JUSTICE CAN ONLY BEGIN WHEN POLICE DEPARTMENTS REFLECT THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE

From left to right: Dr. Dorothy Johnson-Speight, Founder and National Executive Director, Mothers In Charge,Inc.; Michael German, Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice, Liberty and...

14 MILLION U.S. CHILDREN WILL GO HUNGRY THIS WEEK

By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically heightened ongoing food insecurity: 14 million U.S. children will go hungry in any given week,...

11TH HOUR SAVE FOR CALIFORNIA RENTERS FACING EVICTION IS NOT PERMANENT SOLUTION: ASSEMBLYMAN DAVID CHIU

CA Assembly Member David Chiu By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor SACRAMENTO — AB 3088, an emergency bill to stave off evictions for 4.3 million California renters,...

WITHOUT ART, THE STARK REALITIES OF COVID WOULD MAKE THE WORLD UNBEARABLE

Comedienne Kristina Wong, star of the one-woman show “Kristina Wong for Public Office,” is one of the newly unemployed out of the 5 million...

16.6 MILLION PEOPLE OF COLOR, PURGED FROM STATE ROSTERS, WILL NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE IN NOVEMBER

Clockwise from top left: Nathaniel Persily, Healthy Elections Project, Stanford University; Karthick Radakrishnan, Founder and Director, AAPI Data; Andrea Miller, Founder, Reclaim Our Vote;...

Why is the U.S. Lagging Behind the World in Managing COVID?

The U.S. leads the world in both COVID infections and mortality rates. 5.3 million U.S. residents have been infected, while more than 167,000 have died.

TRUMP ESCALATES WAR ON IMMIGRANTS AMIDST WORSENING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

From left to right: Kalpana Peddibhotla, Mathews Peddibhotla Law Group; Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec, National Immigration Law Center; and Sarah Pierce, Migration Policy Institute (All...

科技大企業因疫情獲利數十億 他們有縮小學生數位鴻溝的責任

Clockwise from top left: Pedro Noguera, Dean, USC Rossier School of Education; Shaun R. Harper, Executive Director of the USC Race and Equity Center;...

판데믹으로 막대한 이익을 거둔 IT기업들이 이제 학생들의 디지털 격차 해소에 나서야 한다

Clockwise from top left: Pedro Noguera, Dean, USC Rossier School of Education; Shaun R. Harper, Executive Director of the USC Race and Equity Center;...

CALIFORNIA CENSUS HITS BENCHMARK FOR HARD-TO-COUNT POPULATIONS – BUT WEALTHY COMMUNITIES FAR BEHIND

By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor SAN FRANCISCO — California’s Census self-response rate is a nationwide leader, but many residents in the state’s wealthy enclaves have...

TECH GIANTS EARNED BILLIONS FROM PANDEMIC – NOW THEY NEED TO BRIDGE DIGITAL DIVIDE FOR KIDS

Clockwise from top left: Pedro Noguera, Dean, USC Rossier School of Education; Shaun R. Harper, Executive Director of the USC Race and Equity Center;...

APRENDA LOS PASOS EN SU CELULAR PARA PREPARARSE PARA EL PRÓXIMO DESASTRE

Por SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Editora colaboradora SAN FRANCISCO – Listos California — una campaña para prepararse frente a desastres con base en la Oficina de Servicios...

휴대전화를 통해 만약의 재난 상황에 대비하자

수니타 소라지/EMS Contributing Editor 샌프란시스코-캘리포니아 주지사 긴급서비스실은 최근 ‘리스토스 캘리포니아’ (Listos California) 캠페인을 발족했다. 이 캠페인은 캘리포니아주에 갑자기 자연재해가 발생하는 상황에 대비해 취약계측을 돕기 위한...

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