Year: 2020

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor Jarrett Adams spent ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Adams was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault at age 17. He was then sentenced to 28 years in prison at a maximum-security prison. After filing numerous appeals Adams was exonerated with the assistance of…

The up and coming animation film director and producer Lymond Ponder released his first official animated short film series, The Tales of Twilight Season 1 on Amazon Prime. Lymond is the grandson of Samuel Martin Sr, the man who started The American News Paper. In the 1990s before the American news paper evolved from paper to the…

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor The Trump Administration has finalized implementation of new work requirement rules that would cut food stamp benefits for 700,000 Americans. The average food stamp payout is $36 per month. Though the Trump Administration estimates that under 700,000 people will be impacted by their policy changes, the Urban Institute…

10 Ways to Support Black Entrepreneurship By: Michael Vallante, U.S. Small Business Administration’s Associate Administrator  for the Office of Field Operations, overseeing the 68 district  offices  and  nine  Regional  Administrators; and Regional Administrator for Region IX, overseeing the agency’s programs and services in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam During Black History Month, we celebrate…

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Students are learning about what it takes to breathe easier at San Bernardino Valley College. In recent years, the campus has become more active with South Coast Air Quality Management District and is on track to address the academic side of an environmental justice issue. Professor Todd Heibel said last year’s…

By: Lou Yeboah “…You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, how is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time,” says the Lord! Tell me, “What Day is It? – What Hour is it?” I tell you, it is the Day of Preparation [2 Peter 3:8-12]….

In July of 2019 Danny Paul released his single, “You More” and we covered his release here. Well Danny is back and this time he features Brooke Taylor on his track “On Sight”. Released on Valentines day to capture the spirit of love that we all share on that day. Take a look at his…

By Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire Contributor As Americans, everyone is given the freedom to believe what they can conceive. To African Americans, President Barak Obama was a Golden Child, a spiritual entity, who brought truth to power and transformed America and the world. He will always be idolized by Black Americans as the first Black…

By Tanu Henry | California Black Media Education may not have been the official theme of the National Action Network’s first Western Regional Conference. But it was clearly the primary focus of the gathering. The civil rights organization convened the meeting Feb. 5 through Feb. 7, at the Genesis Church in South Sacramento, where the…

By Matt Hamilton Staff Writer Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, once a respected law enforcement leader who was convicted of thwarting a federal investigation into his department’s violent, scandal-plagued jail system, has reported to a Texas prison to begin a three-year term behind bars. Baca, 77, arrived Tuesday at the Federal Correctional Institution…