With hate crimes on the rise, speakers at the California Commission on the State of Hate forum stressed the need to bolster civil rights law and community engagement.
Nearly two weeks after a gunman killed 8 people in Allen, Texas, Korean Americans there are asking why the shooting isn't being treated as a hate crime.
Bills now pending threaten to further roll back abortion and transgender rights, and strip certain ethnic groups of rights to own land, among other issues.
Republicans in North Carolina's are pushing through bills targeting abortion and the trans community following a ruling allowing extreme partisan gerrymandering.
Two measures now making their way through the State Assembly aim to improve how California draws new district maps to ensure more participatory elections.
