Sunni Khalid
News EditorSunni M. Khalid is a veteran of more than 40 years in journalism, having worked in print, radio, television, and web journalism.
He has worked for Time magazine, USA TODAY, The Wilmington News-Journal,The Baltimore Sun, and National Public Radio, where he was a diplomatic correspondent and the Cairo bureau chief.
During his career, Sunni has reported from more than 35 countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean on a number of breaking international stories. These include Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, the U.S. military intervention in Haiti, Israel’s Operation Grapes of Wrath in Lebanon and South Africa’s historic, first all-race elections in 1994.
Over the years, Sunni has also been a guest on several television and radio programs, including CNN, Al-Jazeera, ITN, Sky News and the Voice of America. He attended Howard University in Washington D.C. and graduated cum laude, majoring in print journalism. He also studied at the Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C., majoring in African studies and international economics.
More recently, Sunni helped establish the award-winning news department at WYPR-FM in Baltimore, where he served as managing news editor for nine years. Mr. Khalid was born in Detroit and raised in Highland Park, Michigan.
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CrosscurrentsLast month, the city council approved a new law on encampment sweeps that gives new powers to conduct sweeps, no longer requiring the city to provide housing for those who are displaced. At the same time, Mayor Barbara Lee has established a new office on homeless affairs, pushing against this policy of removing encampments without offering temporary housing options. -
San Jose's city manager released a proposal for the upcoming fiscal year that includes broad cuts to city services, but avoids layoffs. -
The Half Moon Bay City Council voted Tuesday to approve a ground lease with the developer of an affordable housing facility for older farmworkers, marking a major step in moving the years-long project forward. -
The city of San Pablo has partnered with Republic Services, Inc. to launch California's first fully electric residential recycling and waste collection fleet. -
The California Primary Care Association and Open Door Community Health Centers filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West from placing an initiative on the November ballot that would dictate how clinics spend money. -
A bill seeking to crack down on large investors that buy up housing stock to rent out in California failed a critical committee in the State Capitol on Monday. The bill would have ended a tax break for large corporations that own over 50 units. -
A new audit by the Oakland City Auditor's Office found that high waste disposal costs, gaps in enforcement and limited access to legal dumping options are contributing to the city's persistent illegal dumping problem. -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly opened another detention center in California’s Central Valley. -
State lawmakers have pushed forward legislation that would change a decades-old state law allowing the Department of Motor Vehicles to receive millions of dollars from auctioned cars without telling the owners. -
A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down California's requirement that masked federal agents identify themselves.
