Tonya Pendleton, BlackAmericaWeb.com Tonya Forest and Keisha Whitaker won’t go into 2019 as a couple. Oscar-winning actor Forest filed for divorce from his wife of 22 years last Thursday, according to The Daily Mail. The couple has two grown daughters Sonnet, 22 and True, 20. Each of them has a child from a previous relationship….
EURweb.com Wendy Williams has responded to a report that her husband impregnated his mistress by sending the original source of the alleged rumor a legal warning. Blogger Love B. Scott was served with a cease & desist by the popular daytime talk show host after he first published quotes from a source who claimed Kevin…
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Tesix Wireless, a telecommunications company announced its launching in summer 2018. It has since gandered the attention of interested customers and private investors with interest in the startup. With their interest, Tesix Wireless received investing and acquisition offers from investors taking the company to $5.9 million dollars in value. Although Tesix Wireless…
Written by Barb Powell A shower. A decent meal. A place to do laundry. A place to feel less alone. All of this and more will be provided at The Ground Floor, a new day center for homeless youth opening in January in the basement of First Congregational UCC in Bellingham, Wash. The new center…
Bentley deBardelaben Executive Associate, JLCM Tis the season for love, light, and wonder … right? Most years, I am a huge fan of Christmastide. Like many, this enjoyment was formed in my childhood; particularly the year I believed that I saw Santa Claus traveling in his sleigh across the moonlit Ohio sky to deliver presents…
The Niro is the perfect vehicle for those seeking fuel economy, space, comfort, value and the latest tech advances, without sacrificing style. By Jeff Fortson of JeffCars.com Highlights: Brian Peterson was responsible for the interior layout of the Niro. This Niro is Peterson’s first major vehicle assignment. He’s one of two Black car designers working…
By Ann Hill-Bond Kwanzaa, a yearlong celebration that focuses on seven life principles called Nguzo Saba, was created by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor of Black Studies, in 1966 during a time of profound social change for African Americans. What Kwanzaa has become today is the actualization of Karenga’s vision of a celebration that would…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Led by Chairman L. Cedric Richmond (D-LA-02), and Congressional Black Caucus Diversity Task Force Co-Chairs, Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) and G. K. Butterfield (D-NC-01) – The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) issued the following joint statement in response to a new report prepared for the Senate Select Committee…
By Clare Foran, CNN CNN Digital Expansion 2018 Clare Foran Updated 2:44 PM ET, Sun December 23, 2018 Washington (CNN)A partial government shutdown remains in effect after funding expired for roughly a quarter of the federal government when the clock struck midnight on Saturday — and it is not clear when it will end. Negotiations…
P.R. Lockhart Paul McCowns’s story of “banking while black” is the latest instance of 911 being called on people of color for no reason. Less than a month into a new job, Paul McCowns went to a bank in Brooklyn, Ohio, to cash his first paycheck. But instead of getting his money, he found himself…
During a sentencing hearing, Sullivan, a Howard University alum, chastised Trump’s former national security adviser for lying to FBI agents. by Sheryl Estrada U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan slammed Michael Flynn, a former lieutenant general, who served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, for lying to federal investigators in their probe into Russian interference…
The UCR journey of Brandy Renee Taylor ’13 continues with an inaugural School of Business scholarship Sandra Baltazar Martínez sandrab.martinez@ucr.edu The two-day old baby needed a home. And foster parents. Soon after she was born, Children and Family Services took Brandy Renee Taylor and her 2-year-old sister away from her drug-addicted mother. Her grandmother stepped…
By Darielis Cruz Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. I was born in Moca, a small city in the Dominican Republic, and today I am a 21-year-old junior at Mercy College, in New Jersey. Thanks to the Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship, I studied In South Africa last summer, and it was a transformational experience for me….
A staff member at Tuscany Hills Elementary School in Lake Elsinore is suspected of having active tuberculosis, and Riverside County health officials are working with school representatives to identify students and staff who might have been exposed to the illness. Riverside County health officials will send out letters to the parents or guardians of students…
A service of the Communications Department of San Bernardino City Unified School District Employees of the San Bernardino City Unified School District’s Information Technology (IT) Department made hope happen for a family that lost everything in a fire over the weekend. The family, which does not want to be identified, has two children attending SBCUSD…
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Lee released the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s proposed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) rule that would end food assistance for more than 750,000 Americans: “Let’s be clear: this Trump administration rule is a mean-spirited attempt to prevent hundreds of thousands of struggling Americans from accessing food assistance. This rule…
By Jeffery L. Boney Back in March of this year, the Forward Times wrote an eye-opening article entitled Banking In Houston: The New “Jim Crow” Is There More To Come?, where we highlighted a major federal racial discrimination lawsuit that had been filed against Capital One Bank. In a stunning ruling against the bank, a…
WASHINGTON — Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) released the following statement after being approved by the Democratic Caucus to serve as the first woman and the first African American Chair of the House Financial Services Committee: “I am honored to have been selected by my colleagues to be the first Chairwoman of the House Financial…
SACRAMENTO – Today, Assemblyman Jay Obernolte (R-Hesperia) issued the following statement in response to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) waiting one month to notify Californians that the federal government has rejected the state’s REAL ID residency verification process and has still continued to issue cards that are not compliant: “To date, 2.3 million Californians…
By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson The latest attack on vulnerable Americans who need assistance to ensure that they, and their families, have adequate and affordable health insurance comes not from the United States Congress, where the law providing such insurance was challenged more than sixty times by the Republican Party. This time it comes from…
Washington, DC — Former U.S. President Barack Obama surprised young patients at Children’s National Hospital in Northwest Washington on Wednesday. He visited the kids and delivered some toys as presents. “We had a chance to talk to some of the wonderful kids and their families at a time that is obviously tough to folks,” Obama…
By Dallas Post Tribune Staff African-Americans with moderate or severe sleep apnea are twice as likely to have hard-to-control high blood pressure when their sleep apnea goes untreated, according to a new study funded mainly by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The findings, which researchers…
Patrick County, VA — Alex McNabb, an Emergency Medical Technician in Virginia who has made several racist remarks about his Black patients on his neo-Nazi podcast, has been suspended without pay… but not fired! Black residents in the area say they are worried they might be mistreated if they receive care from such a racist…
The holidays are a time for family and friends to gather and share laughs, memories – and perhaps a drink or two. But for people recovering from an addiction, all that alcohol often present at special events can be worrisome. “Holiday parties are when many alcoholics fall off the wagon,” says John Collopy, author of…
The Season’s ‘Ho, ho, ho’ turns into “No, no, no’ By Charlene Crowell December 19, 2018 In the midst of holiday festivities, many people wrap themselves up warmly. After all, winter time is supposed to be cold. But this year, just a week before Christmas, there are people who were dealing with the aftermath of…