Author Archives: S.E. Williams

Stephanie Williams is executive editor of the IE Voice and Black Voice News. A longtime champion for civil rights and justice in all its forms, she is also an advocate for government transparency and committed to ferreting out and exposing government corruption. Stephanie has received awards for her investigative reporting and for her weekly column, Keeping it Real. Contact Stephanie with tips, comments. or concerns at myopinion@ievoice.com.

Meteorologists estimate that 400,000 to one million acres may burn across the state this year which could mean slightly above average fire dangers due to storms this past winter that gave birth to more brush to fuel fires this season.

Keeping It Real

Keeping it Real: A Pending Insurance Crisis

by S.E. Williams July 18, 2023July 18, 2023

An Axios report released in December 2022, painted a dire picture revealing 54% of trans and nonbinary youth surveyed in CA, “seriously considered suicide,” and 19% of those surveyed said they actually “attempted suicide” in the past year.

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Keeping it Real: Bonta Joins Amicus Brief in Defense of Transgender Students

by S.E. Williams July 11, 2023July 16, 2023

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justices (clockwise) beginning upper left )Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett.

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Keeping it Real: A Supreme Mindset of Supremacy

by S.E. Williams July 5, 2023July 6, 2023

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education.

In a “Superficial Rule of Colorblindness” Supreme Court Guts Affirmative Action in Higher Education

by S.E. Williams July 1, 2023July 3, 2023

The reintroduced Equality Act will include sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation omitted from the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

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Keeping it Real: The Equality Act

by S.E. Williams June 27, 2023June 27, 2023

Group of men in Civil War uniforms, likely for a re-enactment of the Union’s entry into Galveston.

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Keeping it Real: Juneteenth–The Hope, Promise and Continued Resistance Encompassed in this Day

by S.E. Williams June 20, 2023June 20, 2023

Mapping Hate in California

by S.E. Williams and Alex Reed June 19, 2023June 21, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Allen v. Milligan on Thursday and in a surprising decision by the conservative court upheld Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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Keeping it Real: The Supreme Court Rules on Race and Redistricting or Did It?

by S.E. Williams June 13, 2023June 13, 2023

On Thursday, June 8 a special council investigation that investigation resulted in former U.S. President Donald J. Trump making history as the first former president to face a federal indictment.

Former U.S. President Donald J.Trump Indicted . . . Again

by S.E. Williams June 12, 2023June 12, 2023