Posted by Gina Szeto-Wong | Jun 22, 2022 |
Domestic abuse survivors — including the mothers of slain children — are pushing for reform of the California family court system when it comes to custody and visitation proceedings.
SACRAMENTO — In late February, a Sacramento man shot and killed his three young daughters during a court-ordere...
Posted by Gina Szeto-Wong | Mar 18, 2022 |
Son of Atlanta spa shooting victim says his Asian mother was targeted
Robert Peterson struggled for months to stop thinking about the day his mother and seven other people, mostly Asian women, were shot and killed last year at Atlanta-area spas.
He's found some comfort living at the Norcross, ...
Posted by Gina Szeto-Wong | Feb 17, 2022 |
The suit comes months after a jury awarded a former Black employee at the electric carmaker's San Francisco-area factory $137 million.
A California state agency is suing Tesla, accusing it of allowing racial discrimination and harassment to flourish at its San Francisco Bay Area factory in a law...
Posted by Gina Szeto-Wong | Feb 16, 2022 |
Chinedu Okobi was a Black man walking in a city where people of his race make up less than 1 percent of the population. And when he began acting oddly on an October afternoon in 2018, wandering into traffic on El Camino Real in Millbrae, sheriff's deputies quickly arrived.
Okobi, who wasn't arme...
Posted by Gina Szeto-Wong | Feb 01, 2022 |
“Pervasive ‘Old Boys' Club' culture” drove one cop to sue San Francisco
A $225,000 settlement with gay SFPD officer Brendan Mannix was approved by the Board of Supervisors today, more than three years after he filed a lawsuit alleging that he was harassed and discriminated against because of his...
Posted by Gina Szeto-Wong | Jan 28, 2022 |
Gender Pay Gap Widens as Women Age
Women are over-represented in lower paying jobs and, as they age, the pay gap widens even more. The U.S. Census Bureau's Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) shows the pay and age dynamic of women and men. Here, we looked at workers ages 35-44.
According to th...
Posted by Gina Szeto-Wong | Aug 18, 2021 |
When John Wang worked at Z & Y Restaurant, one of the most famous dining destinations in San Francisco's Chinatown, he says he didn't get overtime pay, the restaurant routinely took his tips and breaks weren't possible.
“I can't even use my fingers to count the number of times I used the bathroo...
Posted by Gina Szeto-Wong | May 26, 2020 |
In the United States, issues of race can often be cast along the lines of Black and white — and, especially at a moment when the world is being forced to confront the ways systemic racism is built into the nation's history, the reasons for that focus are clear. At the same time, the land has neve...
Posted by Gina Szeto-Wong | Sep 10, 2016 |
"For months after immediately reporting these hateful acts, I sat in silence waiting for action that never came," said Rouble Claire, a Sikh man who lives in Sutter.
SUTTER, Calif. — Rouble Claire is a 66-year-old man of South Asian descent who's been living in Sutter since 1973. He's also a fir...