Middle Eastern and North African community leaders in Orange County are once again taking their advocacy for greater visibility to the state level – fresh off the heels of getting OC’s largest city to recognize the state’s first Arab American cultural district after decades.
This time, they’re rallying local officials to support a new state bill proponents say will cast a light on inequities in health care, education and civil rights protections for hundreds of thousands Middle Easterners and North Africans in California.
Middle Eastern leaders say they are disparities that have long hid in the shadows – made invisible because their community is categorized as White in federal and state data…