Black News Channel (BNC) TV Launches in America

New  24/7  News  Network Scheduled  to  Launch  in  November 2019 By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia  In a joint teleconference broadcast live from the Four Season’s Hotel in New York’s Financial District, the Black News Channel (BNC) and the National Newspaper Publishers Association announced the official launch date and time for the nation’s…

Poll of likely voters shows rising student debt problems: Weakened borrower protections, blocked debt relief cited

By Charlene Crowell, Center for Responsible When likely voters across the country were recently asked their opinions about student loan borrowing, 82% agreed that the still-growing $1.5 trillion debt is a national crisis. Even when partisan affiliations were included, the solid concern for this unsustainable financial burden held strong: 74% of Republicans, 80% of independents,…

Discover the Writer Inside You

San Bernardino County, CA (September 23, 2019)—Imagine writing a 50,000-word novel in a single month. That means writing approximately 1,667 words each day of character dialogue, scene descriptions, and plot. It might sound impossible, but it isn’t because hundreds of thousands of people all over the world have done it, some multiple times. That’s the…

Tri-Caucus Releases Higher Education Act Reauthorization Priorities

By Sentinel News Service The Chairs of the Congressional Tri-Caucus –Congressional Black (CBC) Caucus Chair Karen Bass (CA-37), Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Joaquin Castro (TX-20), and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chair Judy Chu (CA-27) – released their Tri-Caucus Higher Education Priorities for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. These Tri-Caucus Priorities…

State Treasurer Fiona Ma Announces New Housing, Economic Development, Jobs and Opportunity Zone Ad Hoc Committee

SACRAMENTO – California State Treasurer Fiona Ma announced today she has appointed 12 housing and economic development experts to a new committee that will assist her office in coming up with out-of-the-box strategies to advance her housing and economic development goals. In January when the Treasurer was sworn-in, she outlined goals to: 1) Increase housing…

Young Black Patient Dies After More Than12 Hours Of Torture In A North Carolina Hospital ER

Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Dorothy Newbern, a distraught mother from North Carolina, continues her six year battle revealing the details of her only child’s cruel 12 plus hour hospital ER visit. Shortly after her 33-year old son, Curtis Newbern III, called her complaining of a sudden onset of excruciating head pain (like thunder and lightning going…

The California Wellness Foundation Launches Sexual Health Toolkit for Black Women

LOS ANGELES – Black women throughout California are being invited to “sip some tea” (share the latest news), via an innovative public awareness campaign and toolkit that combines sexual health tips, empowering messages and an interactive tour of one’s body. The Upspoken campaign and RoyalTea toolkit is funded by The California Wellness Foundation and developed…

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Statement on the Resignation of the Police Officer Who Shot and Killed Atatiana Jefferson

On Saturday, a 28-year old black woman, Atatiana Jefferson, was shot and killed in her own home by a police officer in Fort Worth, Texas who was responding to a neighbor’s request for a wellness check. Today, that officer resigned. Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,…