Research & Publications

We ‘CAP’ off Black History Month and kick off Women’s History Month with our Communications Director, Cheryl Alethia Phelps!

Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman made history when she was named San Diego’s first female chief in 2014. As San Diegans and the San Diego Police Department plan for her retirement and prepare to welcome her successor, there are the inevitable reflections on Chief Zimmerman’s career and legacy.

Monica has been with us for over a year now and is deeply embedded in the work that she does with us. A San Diego native hailing from Southeast San Diego, Monica toils tirelessly to fight against injustices that she sees by heading the local bail reform efforts in San Diego...

How fitting is it that we’re featuring Christie Love Hill on Valentine’s day?? Very. Christie manages to balance fighting for the rights of people of color and women daily and a full life outside of the workplace with her family and faith.

When crusading journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells published an editorial in the Memphis Free Speech on May 21, 1892, challenging the most popular political justification for lynching by declaring that “Nobody in this section of the country believes the old threadbare lie that...

Every Wednesday, you’ll have an opportunity to meet some of our staff, board members, volunteers, and other community members. This week, we’d like to introduce to one of our newer colleagues: Chloe Triplett. Hear from her in her own words...

The women are brown and black. They wear navy blue scrubs. Most wear navy canvass shoes but a few wear bright orange plastic shower sandals. They are in their 20s and 30s except for a few with long grey hair. They are neat and clean. A few wear white plastic rosaries around their necks.

After more than 40 days in an immigration detention facility, Maria Solis, an Oceanside pregnant mother, was released to her family on September 12.

Bail reform is gaining steam, and we couldn’t be happier. Across the country, counties and states are tackling problems with their money bail systems. Even Congress — dysfunctional as it can be — is taking a look at the issue.