Murder By Design!

By Dr. Eliz Coleman Dowdy, Guest Writer ADELANTO, CA- For communities of color, the all too familiar singing of bullets was heard in Adelanto on July 10 when deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department arrived at an apartment complex on Poinciana Road, due to an alleged domestic battery charge lodged against Darrell Allen. …

AN OPEN LETTER

To: City of Adelanto Officials: Council Member Ed Camargo; Council Member Joy Jeanette; Council Member Gerardo Hernandez; Mayor Gabriel Reyes; Mayor Pro Tem Stevevonna Evans City of Victorville Officials: Mayor Gloria Garcia; Mayor Pro Tem Rita Ramirez; Council Member Jim Cox; Council Member Blanca Gomez; Council Member Debra Jones (Victorville) Re: Darrell Allen (DOD: July…

Food Drive by Caliber Teammates in High Desert Part of National Total of Over $900,000 in Donations or 5.4 Million Meals

VICTORVILLE, CA (July 18, 2019) – Feeding America San Bernardino is among more than 85 food banks across 37 states who will be able to restock their shelves to ensure at-risk kids do not go hungry this summer thanks to Caliber Collision’s 2019 Rhythm Restoration Food Drive collecting over $900,000 in donations or 5.4 million…

LA School Board Votes to End Random Searches

By The Los Angeles Sentinel The nation’s second-largest school moved Tuesday to end random metal-detector searches of students at secondary schools, a daily procedure that critics called ineffective, intrusive and offensive. The board of the Los Angeles Unified School District directed Superintendent Austin Beutner to develop an alternative plan for school safety that eliminates the…

Helping Kids Through Education

By: Chelsea Davis-Bibb HOUSTON – Born and raised in the Acres Homes community, Ms. Willie Elaine Hubbard Brooks wanted a way to give back to where she grew up. Inspired by her mother’s community activism and outstanding leadership in the Acres Homes community, Brooks founded the BenCheri’ Educational Center. It was her mother who encouraged…

USDA Has More Than $400 Million Still Available for Renewable Energy System and Energy Efficiency Loan Guarantees

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2019 – Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today encouraged farmers, rural small businesses and agricultural producers to apply for financing in a key U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program that provides loan guarantees to help rural small businesses lower their energy costs.    “Under the leadership of…

Rise in property values to outpace property-tax increase for the average homeowner

RIVERSIDE – Despite a nearly six percent overall increase in property value in Riverside County, the average owner will not see a commensurate increase in property taxes, according to Riverside County’s Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder. All sectors of Riverside County’s real estate market grew in the fiscal year that ended June 30. Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder Peter Aldana announced…

U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $23 Million to Fuel High-Growth Entrepreneurship Across America

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross today announced that 44 organizations — including nonprofits, institutions of higher education, and entrepreneurship-focused organizations — from 28 states and two territories will receive grants totaling $23 million to create and expand high-growth entrepreneurship and increase access to capital for communities across America. The grants are made…

UnitedHealth Invests $8M to Educate, Train Minority Data Scientists

By WI Web Staff Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University are among historically Black institutions poised to receive funding for analytics and data science training through an $8.25 million investment by UnitedHealth Group. The five-year funding initiative will help Atlanta University Center Consortium Data Science Initiative improve education in…

Is Mouth Breathing Harming Your Health?

4 Ways To Ensure Your Lips Are Sealed Even a small child knows that people breathe through their noses. Except, of course, that little fact of anatomy isn’t always true. Often, people breathe through their mouths, unaware that this habit could be a sign of potential problems brewing. “In many cases, people breathe through their…

Medicare and Foreign Travel

By Greg Dill Planning to travel abroad this summer? Before you go, keep in mind that Medicare usually does not cover health care services or supplies while you’re traveling outside the United States. That doesn’t mean you have to travel abroad without health coverage. Here are 3 ways you can get health coverage outside the…

Will Packer Drama, ‘Ambitions’ Brings Star Power to OWN

By Nsenga K. Burton, Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., NNPA Newswire Entertainment Editor Entertainment juggernaut Will Packer, the man behind hit films like Girls Trip, Straight Outta Compton, Little, Stomp the Yard, Ride Along, “Ready to Love,” and “The Atlanta Child Murders” has brought “Ambitions,” a big drama starring Robin Givens, Essence Atkins, Kendrick Cross, Brian…