Stephen Magagnini

Psychologist Kristee Haggins, a suicide survivor, shares her personal journey and her mission with Safe Black Space to combat rising Black youth suicide rates.

Free haircuts for school-age youth at Barberz Dreme Co. in Elk Grove. Event hosted by ScholarsforPurposeInc to support single-parent scholars.

Sacramento's second Black fire chief, Julius 'Joe' Cherry, reflects on the devastating L.A. fires and the future of firefighting.

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg has made racial equity a paramount initiative during his eight years in office, investing in commercial corridors, creating a department of community response, and hiring an inspector general to investigate police shootings, in an effort to change the culture at City Hall.

Independent forensic examination reveals $774,703 in unsupported payments at Capital Public Radio. Board members implicated in the investigation.

Sacramento State University launches Black Honors College, the first of its kind outside HBCUs. Aiming to foster diversity and inclusion.

When COVID exploded in 2020, it claimed not only 1,127,000 American lives, it buried thousands of businesses. COVID served as a knockout blow to a newspaper industry that for years had been teetering on extinction for the better part of two decades; more than 300 newspapers went under and 6,000 journalists lost their jobs.

By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor-in-Chief Newly appointed university president Dr. J. Luke Wood stands in front of the Sac State University Union on

By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor-In-Chief Sacramento OBSERVER Publisher Larry Lee thanks his staff, family and supporters during the

By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER, Editor-in-Chief On December 16, 2022, Jim Cooper gets sworn in as Sacramento County’s first Black sheriff and only the

By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor-In-Chief Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) has been very successful during his 11 years in the California

By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor-in-Chief Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan says the city, for the first time, launched a citizens’ input

By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor In Chief Gary Loesch When Sacramento Fire Chief Gary Loesch refused to resign last week, he said, he was fired and

By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor-In-Chief Keynote speaker Crystel Patterson, a technology consultant by day, talks about her passion for writing

By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor In Chief “The Negro Motorist Green Book” cover, 1956. Courtesy of the Green Book Collection, Schomberg Center for

By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor-In-Chief Sacramento, like many other cities in California with links to jobs in industry and on military bases,

By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor-in-Chief Elk Grove prides itself on diversity and inclusion, so when its school district learned it led the state

Mayor tells Observer he supports direct cash payments By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor-in-Chief https://youtu.be/4iCjcHRZGhc As more Americans face

By Stephen Magagnini and Maya Pottiger (WORD IN BLACK) - Sacramento County has become the Suspension Capital of California when it comes to Black

By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor-in-Chief and Maya Pottiger | WORD IN BLACK Data Reporter Sacramento City Unified School Board member Chinua Rhodes