CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT PLEDGES 10-YEAR SUPPORT FOR BLACK-LED ORGANIZING & ACTIVISM. “The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the African-American community, in combination with recent tragic events of racial injustice, remind us that we must push further and harder to achieve meaningful systemic and structural change to advance racial equity,” said Board Chair Dr. Shawn Ginwright, professor of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University.