(LOS ANGELES – Dec. 21, 2020) — An organ donor from Moreno Valley will be among those honored by OneLegacy and Donate Life as part of the Tournament of Roses 2021 TV special, “The Rose Parade’s New Year Celebration presented by Honda.” The local donor, Xavier Kesan Brown, passed away at 13 months old. His…
Signers Include American Psychological Association, Grapevine Health, NAACP, National Hispanic Medical Association, Native American Agriculture Fund, The Nutrition Coalition, WANDA: Woman Advancing Nutrition Dietetics and Agriculture Washington, D.C. – The Food 4 Health (F4H) Alliance sent a letter to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) highlighting a recent F4H report that found more than 90% of…
Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media A difficult year for unemployed Californians is closing out with one more thing for them to worry about. The California Employment Development Department (EDD) has asked at least 920,000 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) recipients to verify their income. Now, some of those Californians who lost their jobs because of…
Offices remain open. Customers encouraged to go online first Sacramento – The California Department of Motor Vehicles will continue its temporary suspension of behind-the-wheel driving tests until at least January 4. The DMV previously announced a two-week suspension through at least December 28. The DMV is taking this step for the health and safety…
By: Lou Yeboah It may sound odd in the middle of a pandemic, but never have I been more thankful than I am now. Awake, alive, grateful! “Thanks be to God for His inexpressible gift!” [2 Corinthians 9:15]. I tell you, we should not let a day go by when we don’t thank God for…
Sarah Lund Minister for Disabilities and Mental Health Justice I will never forget the night when I sat in the damp and cold dungeon known as Missouri’s death row. My chair was not electric, but plastic. I was not inside a cell but sitting outside of a metal cage. Inside the cage, curled up in…
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s foremost infectious disease physician, also championed the work of Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American scientist, whom Dr. Fauci said was at the forefront of the development of the vaccine. “So, the first thing you might want to say to my African American brothers and sisters is…
San Bernardino County was among the first in the state today (12/20/20), to receive doses of the recently approved Moderna vaccine. The 21,650 doses received by the County today are being shipped to health care partners throughout the county and will be administered to frontline health care workers beginning immediately. Moderna joins Pfizer as the…
Goodman has commenced construction of a 1.1 million-square-foot logistics campus in the Inland Empire West, Southern California, a prime logistics location. Scheduled for opening in summer 2021, Goodman Logistics Center Fontana III will provide essential infrastructure to meet the increasing demand for logistics space with easy access to large consumer markets. The site will provide…
Foster youth often experience isolation and loneliness during holidays, pandemic makes it worse RIVERSIDE, Ca.— Riverside County social workers on Monday delivered holiday bags loaded with goodies and gifts to Anahi Reyes and 160 young adults who are preparing to leave foster care for independent living. Outside her apartment, Anahi, 20, said youth in foster…
By Latinovations Staff (December 22, 2020) The new Covid-19 relief package is expected to pass Congress very soon and this time households with people of mixed immigration status will be eligible. This is a significant change from the previous relief package because it excluded millions of people in mixed-status families in a pandemic in which…
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In 1968, Johnson, NFL star Rosey Grier and journalist George Plimpton, apprehended Sirhan Sirhan immediately after Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed. “America lost a sports icon with the passing of Rafer Johnson,” ESPN’s Michael Eaves tweeted. “At one point, he was viewed as the best athlete in the world after…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Major League Baseball’s Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is hosting its annual “Unfiltered Series” featuring conversations with MLB’s Chief Baseball Development Officer and former Los Angeles Angels General Manager, Tony Reagins. The conversations, which began on Friday, December 18, include leadership from The Players…
SACRAMENTO – California State Treasurer Fiona Ma has been selected by leaders in the finance industry as the winner of the 10th Annual Freda Johnson Public Sector Award for Trailblazing Women in Public Finance for having broken through numerous glass ceilings and for her commitment to mentoring young women in the workplace. The award by…
* Covered California joined forces with African-American health leaders on vaccine safety to urge Black Californians to get inoculated as two surveys found that many were hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. * The call to encourage all Californians to get vaccinated comes as COVID-19 infections and deaths are surging across the state and country….
Go to school and you’ll succeed in life, they said, but they don’t know how hard it is just to get there San Bernardino, CA Berdoo is a powerful new film that follows the lives of students in the San Bernardino City Unified School District. It is a film that shares the stories of multiple…
Sacramento – The following is a statement made by Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes regarding the selection of Secretary of State Alex Padilla to the U.S. Senate. “This morning, Governor Gavin Newsom announced his selection of Secretary of State Alex Padilla to replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as the Senator for California. Alex Padilla has…
California Labor Agency, DIR address COVID-19 pandemic health and safety concerns Oakland, CA— In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the heightened demand for products and services during the winter holiday season, the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) and its Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) encourage employees and employers to learn more about…
By Rocky Bucano, Executive Director of the Universal Hip Hop Museum In the 1970s, America was in turmoil. The economy was in a freefall. The nation was grappling with the Vietnam war. Marginalized Americans were still protesting in the streets for change. Anguish was felt throughout the country, but most profoundly in the nation’s inner…
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media The new president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) California-Hawaii State Conference is keeping in step with a national movement making strides to level the playing field for Black women — long underrepresented in both private and public sector leadership roles. Like organizations…
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The biggest challenge with many of the students of color we serve is engagement. Students are faced with inefficient resources, little excitement to learn, and are born without being surrounded by role models and motivations which lead a child to dream, work hard and be successful,” noted David Anderson, General Manager of…
Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media There is no silver lining it seems when it comes to redlining. Redlining describes the illegal practice when government agencies or private institutions systematically exclude certain groups of people — or selectively raise the prices of goods and services for them. The most notable example is how the…
TROY, Mich., Dec. 10, 2020–Flagstar Bank today announced it will be awarding grants of $5,000 to over 180 small businesses owned by people of color in Flagstar’s banking markets. The grants are designed to assist businesses whose operating expenses have been impacted by COVID-19. “Based on the overwhelming response we’ve received, I think we’ve struck…
SACRAMENTO – Senator Scott Wilk, representing the 21st Senate District, and a bipartisan coalition of Senators and Assemblymembers jointly introduced Senate Bill 74, otherwise known as the Keep California Working Act, which will invest $2.6 billion (10% of California’s projected surplus) in grants to help small businesses and employees that have sustained financial losses during…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Society for Science & the Public today announced it is providing STEM research kits to 100 middle and high school science educators from underserved communities to help their students conduct scientific research outside the classroom. The teachers, who hail from 38 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, will each…
