Year: 2019

California Black Media Staff Landlords Are Hiking Rents Before Rent Control Law Takes Effect Before a new rent control law Gov. Newsom signed in October goes into effect in January, some landlords around the state are trying trying to get ahead of the restrictions they see coming by slapping tenants now with double-digit rent increases…

NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — My name and my network, REVOLT, have been mentioned recently by Comcast in reference to the Comcast/Byron Allen US Supreme Court case as an example of Comcast’s inclusive practices with respect to African American owned cable networks. While it is true that we are in business with Comcast,…

Assistant County Fire Chief Dan Munsey will serve as the new Fire Chief for the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District effective immediately following his appointment by County Chief Executive Officer Gary McBride, with concurrence from the Board of Supervisors. Munsey, who has served with County Fire since 1995, succeeds Mark Hartwig, who left the…

African-American boys and men in America continue to kill themselves at an alarming rate. Op-Ed by Dr. Salvatore J. Giorgianni, Jr. PharmD.Sr. Science Advisor, Men’s Health Network Over the past several months the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released several reports about the demographics of this national disgrace. African-American men and boys continue to…

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent November 24, 2019 — Bill Cosby breaks his silence, granting his first exclusive interview since beginning his sentence at SCI-Phoenix, a maximum-security Pennsylvania penitentiary near Philadelphia. Today, in a special phone call with the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s BlackPressUSA.com, Cosby said he’s spending his time helping to…

Ontario, CA – November 20, 2019 – AEG Presents announced The LIT AF Tour, hosted by Martin Lawrence, will embark on another nationwide tour in 2020. The 25+ date tour will come to the Toyota Arena on Friday, April 10, 2020. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 22 at 12:00pm at ticketmaster.com and the Toyota…

On Tuesday, November 16th, news media around the United States reported the story that a local law enforcement officials arrested a white teenager who idolized Dylan Roof with a notebook in her position detailing a plot to attack Bethel AME Church in Gainesville, Georgia. We are thankful for the vigilance of local law enforcement in…

By: Lou Yeboah People will disappoint you! It’s a life lesson to realize, and the sooner you realize it the better off you will be.  Believe me, I speak from experience. It hurts when people let you down; but its inevitable. It’s going to happen and its going to happen more times than you desire…

By CYNTHIA LITTLETON Business Editor Byron Allen’s racial discrimination case against Comcast Corp. on Wednesday heads to the Supreme Court, where justices will consider Comcast’s argument that the case should hinge on two words: “but for.” Allen filed a $20 billion lawsuit against Comcast in February 2015, arguing that the nation’s largest cable operator was…

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Since their inception, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and Section 1981 of the Act have made it unlawful for any citizen to be denied equal rights and equitable treatment on the basis of race; protected people of color from discrimination when forming business contracts; and provided a legal pathway for those…

Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media When California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced the English language arts and math results of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) test last month, we found out that African-American students’ scores lagged behind the much higher marks their White, Asian and Hispanic…

By Angela Sailor My daughter’s name is Alamni. It means “the one who brings peace.” She is in her second year at the United States Military Academy, the first in our family to join the ranks of the Long Gray Line. As her name suggests, her dream of becoming a West Point cadet was not…