Kimi Floyd Reisch, MDiv. Program Minister for the Open and Affirming Coalition of the United Church of Christ June is Open and Affirming month in many of our churches and Pride month in many of our communities. (Both are recognized at other times in some places.) For those of us who are transgender, non-binary, two-spirit,…
The 20 plus Democratic candidates for the 2020 Presidential election Every senator looks in the mirror and sees a future president. But these days, for Democrats at least, it’s not just members of Capitol Hill’s upper chamber who are picturing themselves sitting in the Oval Office. Congressmen, governors, mayors, even people who hold no elected…
The fungus that causes White-nose Syndrome (WNS), a deadly disease of bats, has been detected in low levels in California for the first time. Fungal DNA of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) was detected in samples collected this spring from bats on private land in the Plumas County town of Chester. The California Department of Fish and…
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A media lawyer says those stalling under SB 1421 are just wasting taxpayer money and ‘delaying the inevitable’ By THOMAS PEELE | , TONY SAAVEDRA | tsaavedra@scng.com and IAN WHEELER | iwheeler@scng.com Sex, lies and bullets flying wildly. Then there are the stolen drugs, illegal chokeholds, planted evidence, falsified reports and a police officer who…
https://www.ewg.org/release/lead-detected-drinking-water-almost-1-5-california-schools SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Almost 20 percent of California’s K-12 school campuses serve drinking water with detectable levels of lead. The State Water Resources Control Board confirmed in an email to EWG that 1,166 out of 6,595 schools that submitted test results found at least one fountain that served water with more than 5 parts…
San Bernardino County National Park News JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California – Park officials want to remind visitors to be extra vigilant with fire during the upcoming 4th of July holiday. The wet winter and spring has created increased growth of grasses and other plants, which have now dried out, creating hazardous fuel…
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — College Campus Tours, LLC has created an awesome generational changing program that will enhance the college graduation rates for many students. They will present, the inaugural Manifest Academy Leadership Summit at Morehouse College from July 7-10, 2019. The Manifest Academy has developed an all male leadership and mentoring program called the Summit….
By Jade K. Lee | California Black Media The California Census Office believes there will be higher participation among African Americans during next year’s census if “trusted messengers” help get the word out and go door-to-door conducting pre-surveys, educating people and helping some fill questionnaires in Black communities. Preparing for the 2020 Census, the U.S….
BURLINGAME – A new leadership team takes office today as Elk Grove kindergarten teacher E. Toby Boyd begins a two-year term as 56th president of the 325,000-member California Teachers Association. Los Angeles elementary teacher David Goldberg becomes CTA vice president, and Santa Clarita AP US History, Economics and Government Teacher Leslie Littman becomes CTA Secretary-Treasurer….
The Class of 2019 earned more than $11.6 million in college and military scholarships, far surpassing previous years’ totals. Cajon High School had the largest graduating class in the District, with 624 students earning a high school diploma in June. More than half of Cajon’s graduates received scholarships or grants to help them pay for…
A common practice with far-reaching impact By Carol Ozemhoya, Our Weekly News Contributor Recently, Our Weekly ran a story about a group of teen girls who were strip searched and chastised at a middle school on the East Coast. No apparent reason was given by the school’s administration, except that the girls – who were…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia One night after many pundits said he acquitted himself well in the debate in Miami between himself and other 2020 Democratic Presidential hopefuls, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders arrived in Cincinnati to deliver the keynote address at the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Legacy Awards Dinner. Sanders addressed…
Sacramento – Last Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the 2019-2020 California state budget that makes historic investments in California’s future including funding for early childhood education, homelessness prevention, higher education access, largest investment in K-14 education in California’s history, expansion of Cal-EITC Working Families Tax Credit and $19.2 billion in reserves, the largest of any…
SACRAMENTO – The California Employment Training Panel executive director Stewart Knox today issued the following statement in honor of chairperson Barry Broad’s tenure with the panel. Broad has served on the Employment Training Panel since 2002 and was appointed chairperson by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 2011. Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Broad to the…
Formerly Secret Operation by District Attorney and Sheriff Stomps on Constitutional Rights SANTA ANA — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP today filed an appeal to a court ruling on its lawsuit against Orange County’s District Attorney and Sheriff, whose…
By Charlene Crowell Nearly 90 years ago, Kelly Miller (1863-1939), a Black sociologist and mathematician, said, “The Negro is up against the white man’s standard, without the white man’s opportunity.” As the first Black man to enroll as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University in 1908, Miller also authored a book entitled Race Adjustment,…
UC Riverside-led study is the first to find an association between thirdhand smoke and gene expression in humans Iqbal Pittalwala Thirdhand smoke can damage epithelial cells in the respiratory system by stressing cells and causing them to fight for survival, a research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has found. The…
By Pat Tucker Wilson Flanked by his five-year-old daughter, Karem Greene was one of many parents who spent the afternoon at the Weekly Family YMCA on Stella Link, for a free water safety event. “I wanted to make sure she is water safe. I wanted to get a sense of where she is with water…
Chronic inflammation is associated with such diseases as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, and can harm people in numerous other ways, from painful joints to dental problems and aging skin. It can even disturb your slumber, since inflammation can impact the breathing airways during sleep, resulting in sleep apnea among other potential issues, says Dr….
by James D. Veltmeyer, MD Do you know that America faces a physician shortage of up to 100,000 by the year 2030, according to the American Association of American Medical Colleges? Are you aware that the majority of physicians would not recommend medicine as a career? Almost two-thirds are pessimistic about the future of their…
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Live Natural, the company formally known as Alpha RX Plus which has successfully helped men control erectile dysfunction for 7 years, now has a new product on the market for women called Eve’s Alpha8. JR Scroggins, CEO of the company, says that he is proud as an African American owned company to…
Research ReA man named Johnny Lee Gaddy recently shared with peonage researcher, Dr. Antoinette Harrell, that in 1957 he witnessed African American children being literally fed to the hogs that were on the campus of the infamous Arthur G. Dozier Reform School in the Florida Panhandle. In addition, a 1923 article in Times Magazine reported…
Washington, D.C. – In response to the Department of Justice confirming today that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process, Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under…
