Raheem Hosseini

Sacramento

Race and Equity Editor at San Francisco Chronicle

Now: @sfchronicle race/equity editor. Before: @SacNewsReview news editor. RTs are empty provocations sometimes bookmarks. [email protected]

Articles

California pioneered modern gang surveillance. Trump may be exploiting it

6 days ago | sfchronicle.com | Raheem Hosseini

Demonstrators protest against the deportation of Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia and other U.S. immigrants to an El Salvador megaprison on April 24, 2025, in New York City. Many of the deportees were sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center without court hearings under the Alien Enemies Act after a deal was brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. Michael M.
Why Trump’s biggest supporters can’t be swayed by economic concerns

2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Raheem Hosseini

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, and President Donald Trump address the media about the Palisades and Eaton fires at Los Angeles International Airport on Jan. 24, 2025. Social scientists are saying that a significant majority of Trump’s base is motivated by bias and a desire for an authoritarian leader who will crush their enemies, and that Democrats would do better to energize their supporters than try to siphon off the president’s.
Trump’s war on information meets a dedicated adversary: University librarians

1 month ago | modbee.com | Raheem Hosseini

May 2-An online library of more than 2 million education studies. A ranking tool to see which communities are most vulnerable to climate fallout. A decades-long survey of the American teen experience, down to where high schoolers are more likely to experience child abuse, gun violence and rape.
Trump’s war on information meets a dedicated adversary: University librarians

1 month ago | sfchronicle.com | Raheem Hosseini

The Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that has been creating a digitized record of the internet since 1996, is at the center of a widening project to capture decades of online data and scientific research that the Trump administration is attempting to remove under the guise of ending diversity and gender expansive considerations. Manuel Orbegozo/Special to the ChronicleAn online library of more than 2 million education studies.
Two friends started a California secession movement. Now they’re fighting each other

1 month ago | modbee.com | Raheem Hosseini

Seated in his Fresno home office, Marcus Ruiz Evans, wearing a gray vest over a blue dress shirt and blue-patterned tie, looked into the eye of his laptop camera and attempted to resurrect a political revolt. It was Jan.
Two friends started a California secession movement. Now they’re fighting each other

1 month ago | sfchronicle.com | Raheem Hosseini

CalExit President Marcus Ruiz Evans has been trying to chisel California from the United States for more than a decade. Past attempts have been foiled by group infighting, controversy and a lack of resources, but Evans thinks his fourth attempt at getting an initiative on the state ballot will be the charm.
Why Bay Area lawyers are defending Columbia students from Trump’s free-speech immigration crackdown

1 month ago | fresnobee.com | Raheem Hosseini |Bob Egelko

Jordan Wells acknowledged the dissonance. Here he was, the senior staff attorney at the nonprofit Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area - with its 30-person staff, less than $5 million in revenue and a reach that doesn't often extend past state lines - joining a federal lawsuit in New York against the Trump administration's attempts to deport a Columbia University student. "I don't know what I can say, honestly.
Trump executive order seeks to erase the existence of transgender people

Jan 20, 2025 | sfchronicle.com | Raheem Hosseini |Sara Libby

Moving bigotry to the center of his administration’s agenda, President Donald Trump will seek to deny the existence of transgender people in a stunning executive order enshrining a federal definition of two biological sexes, an incoming official told reporters before Trump was sworn in Monday. “I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life,” Trump said in his inauguration address Monday.
One of California’s original counties may hold clues as to where America is headed

Jan 19, 2025 | sfchronicle.com | Raheem Hosseini

On Election Night, Doni Chamberlain was wired for sound. A documentary filmmaker had driven nearly 200 miles north to Redding to capture a penultimate chapter in what Chamberlain, a longtime journalist and longer-time resident, had taken to calling “the Shasta County shit show.” Mic’ed and packing her notepad and cellphone charger, Chamberlain, founding editor of online muckraker A News Café, headed for the elections office dreading a long night. It was shorter than many expected.
Ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a sprint to rescue refugees

Dec 13, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Raheem Hosseini

Resettlement agencies are pleading with the Joe Biden administration to fast-track refugee admissions before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.