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

Trump’s war on information meets a dedicated adversary: University librarians

1 week 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 week 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

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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.
Trump’s ‘border czar’ pick makes clear: Project 2025 is happening

Nov 13, 2024 | fresnobee.com | Ko Lyn Cheang |Raheem Hosseini

When Donald Trump announced his intent to name Thomas Homan to a new cabinet position of "border czar" upon retaking the White House in January, the president-elect continued erasing the distance between his agenda and Project 2025, the far-right blueprint crafted by the Heritage Foundation.
Trump’s ‘border czar’ pick makes clear: Project 2025 is happening

Nov 13, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Ko Lyn Cheang |Raheem Hosseini

When Donald Trump announced his intent to name Thomas Homan to a new cabinet position of “border czar” upon retaking the White House in January, the president-elect continued erasing the distance between his agenda and Project 2025, the far-right blueprint crafted by the Heritage Foundation.