California Donor Table

Ludovic Blain, executive director of the California Donor Table, a statewide community of donors that invest in communities of color, told me that Democratic politicians need to disentangle themselves from corporate interests because “in California corporate interests are exactly contrary to Black community interests.”

California may become the first state in the nation to outlaw caste-based bias, a safeguard people of South Asian descent say is necessary to protect them from discrimination in housing, education and the tech sector where they hold key roles.

Assemblymember Tina Mckinnor (D-Inglewood) says she is “not here for the B.S.” “I’m here to build houses,” McKinnor said to rounds of applause from members of the NorCal Carpenters Union surrounding her podium as she made the statement last week in Sacramento supporting Senate Bill (SB) 4.