Saint Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., commemorates every murder in the city with wooden crosses in its front garden. The city's homicide rate remains stubbornly high while its murder clearance rate remains well under the already low national average. Eric Westervelt/NPR hide caption
The Los Angeles skyline is seen above the Union Pacific LATC Intermodal Terminal on Tuesday. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
Kiora Hansen and Della Currie protest against racism by Antioch police officers at a rally in front of the police department on Tuesday. Sandhya Dirks/NPR hide caption
A visitor views the blooming flowers at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve on Thursday. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A freeway sign over Interstate 5 in Los Angeles flashes a message about a child abduction as part of the statewide Amber Alert program in August 2002. California state Sen. Steven Bradford has proposed a bill to create a special "Ebony Alert" system for missing Black women, girls and youth in the state. David McNew/Getty Images hide caption
Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. President Joe Biden's administration cleared the way for California's plan to phase out a wide range of diesel-powered trucks, a part of the state's efforts to drastically cut planet-warming emissions and improve air quality in heavy-traffic areas. Noah Berger/AP hide caption
Rain falls on a pedestrian on the University of Southern California campus on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Los Angeles. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption
This June 1, 2016, file photo shows Skittles in New York. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which meets at City Hall, accepted a draft plan of more than 100 recommendations for reparations to eligible Black residents. But the move was largely procedural and doesn't bind the city to any of the proposals. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
In this Jan. 12, 2016, file photo, a ride share car displays Lyft and Uber stickers on its front windshield in downtown Los Angeles. A California appeals court ruled March 13, 2023, that a voter-backed initiative exempting Uber and Lyft from a key provision of state employment law is constitutional, a reversal of a lower court decision that marks a win for the ride-hailing giants. Richard Vogel/AP hide caption
People walk on the Stanford University campus beneath Hoover Tower in Stanford, Calif., on March 14, 2019. Stanford University says it is investigating after multiple swastikas and an image of Adolf Hitler were found on a door Saturday at a Stanford student residence hall. Ben Margot/AP hide caption
An aerial view shows a man navigating floodwaters with his bicycle in the unincorporated community of Pajaro in California on March 11. Residents were forced to evacuate in the middle of the night after an atmospheric river surge broke the Pajaro Levee and sent flood waters flowing into the community. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
In an aerial view, workers make emergency repairs to a road that was washed out heavy rains Friday in Soquel, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Paul Austin and Tenisha Tate Austin stand in front of their renovated home in Marin City, Calif. The couple settled a federal housing discrimination lawsuit late last month. ABC Owned Television Stations hide caption
Members of the California Army National Guard Joint Task Force Rattlesnake shovel snow from a rooftop after a series of winter storms dropped more than 100 inches of snow in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California on March 8, 2023 in Crestline, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption