Dr. Shirley Weber (D-San Diego)

Asm. Shirley Weber’s Daughter Is Running for her Mom’s San Diego District Seat

Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black MediaDecember 31, 2020

Dr. Akilah Weber, the daughter of Dr. Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), has announced that she is running for the 79th Assembly District seat that her mom will soon vacate. If she wins, the younger Dr. Weber would have the opportunity to carry on a family legacy in California politics known for strategic consensus building at the state level that’s rooted in – and deeply connected to — local grassroots organizing at home.

California Assembly Passes Bill to Set Up Reparations Task Force

Tanu Henry, California Black MediaJune 18, 2020

The “reparations” bill calls for the creation of a task force to study and propose ideas for how African Americans in California can be compensated for slavery and its “after lives,” as the author of the legislation, Dr. Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), describes the Jim Crow laws and other forms of injustice and state-sanctioned discrimination that have existed in the United States from 1865 until now.