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Jean Yonemura Wing, Oakland warrior for education equity, dies at 70
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The Arts and Humanities Academy’s class of 2012 honored Jean Yonemura Wing with a decorated utility box near downtown Berkeley. The Academy is at Berkeley High School where Wing was an alumna and later a parent.Leah Millis / The Chronicle 2017
Jean Yonemura Wing, a champion of equity in education, and a retired Oakland Unified School District administrator, died March 29. She was 70.
A Berkeley High School graduate, Wing earned her master’s degree in education at UC Berkeley. She dedicated her career to eliminating the education gap, District Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said, beginning as a parent of a Berkeley High School student, where she served on the school’s diversity project, an effort involving teachers, parents, students and researchers to reduce differences in academic achievement from 1996 to 2002.
COVID-19 infections on the rise in the Bay Area, following national trend
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Nurse Angelica Juarez (right) provides vaccination information to Gladys Sonchonchex as she visits the Southeast Health Center vaccination tent in San Francisco with her three children.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Suping She (right) assists David Johns in the line for vaccination at the Southeast Health Center in San Francisco.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Coronavirus infections trended up in the Bay Area for the week ending Friday, with the average number of daily new cases at 475, up 8.7% from the prior week ending March 26.
Alameda County s first Black public defender is trying to fix the problem with juries
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Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods, sitting on the steps of the county courthouse, is leading a local effort to make jury selection more representative.Yalonda M. James / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Since being appointed Alameda County’s first Black public defender in 2012, Brendon Woods has been outspoken on a number of issues of criminal justice reform, including America’s history of discriminatory jury selections.Yalonda M. James / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Brendon Woods started banging the drum for jury reform in 2018.
That was the year Alameda County’s first Black public defender spoke out against a Superior Court effort that would force residents to appear for jury duty at any courthouse in the county rather than the one closest to them. Woods said this would make jury participation harder for low-income Black and brown residents
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