The Northern California town where lynchings were a point of pride, until they weren t
Dylan Svoboda
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Lizzie DuBose, 27, poses for a photo in a wooded area near a friend s home.Jungho Kim/Jungho Kim/Special to SFGATE
On a Tuesday evening in April, Lizzie Dubose, a 27-year-old African American college student from Placerville, California, tuned into the small Gold Rush town’s City Council meeting via Zoom, as she had every two weeks since last June, and patiently waited her turn to speak. DuBose listened as City Council members approved a pavement project, considered sending a letter opposing a state bill and confirmed appointees to its economic advisory committee. By 6 p.m., what she and hundreds of others on the virtual call had been waiting for finally came before the council: the future of Placerville’s controversial rough-and-tumble identity. Up first: its city logo.
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California’s Surgeon General Weighs In On State’s Covid Response
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California s first surgeon general, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, is sworn in by Gov. Gavin Newsom in February 2019. As a proponent of health care equity, Burke Harris advises the Governor on public health issues facing the state.
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