News stories and tragedies can be hard to deal with once you’ve seen them. Social media can make events feel like they’re even harder to get through. In times of sadness and traumatic news, it’s important to protect your mental health. Here are 3 steps, according to xoNecole, that you can take now to take…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Eli Lilly and others in the pharmaceutical industry are on the front lines of research and innovation, according to Nathaniel Miles, the vice president for strategic initiatives at Eli Lilly. Miles led a spirited discussion at the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) Midwinter Training Conference in…
For many of us, cereal is synonymous with breakfast. I mean, it’s easy and quick. Many of us don’t wake up early enough to waste time cooking. Just pour your cereal in a bowl, add milk (almond milk for people who are lactose intolerant) and run off to work. You’re late! But besides the convenience…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Sen. Mark Warner of Va. (3rd from L) joined World War II veterans at the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington, Va., on Tues., Feb. 23, 2010, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the raising of the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima. The Senator’s father,…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Any studio would rarely provide media access to films that it plans to enter into several prestigious film festivals, like the New Orleans Film Festival and the American Black Film Festival. Char’Actors and 25th Frame Films granted the Black Press that access. Both companies are helmed…
Sacramento – On the heels of news reporting that the CPUC is launching a rulemaking process to manage a transition away from gas, community leaders from across California rallied on the steps of the Capitol to launch a statewide campaign aimed at powering up clean energy and powering down dirty gas to protect working families….
Blake Lively and Sterling K. Brown star in Paramount Pictures’ “The Rhythm Section.” By Dwight Brown NNPA Newswire Film Critic They tried to conjure the spirits of La Femme Nikita and Atomic Blonde. They didn’t try hard enough. Tangier, Marseilles, New York, Madrid… Blood is spilled and bodies are found in apartments, houses and buses…
By Dan Glickman and Alan Solomont Politics is in realignment. And perhaps the most underappreciated change is this: Based on recent research at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life, young voters, ages 18-29, played a significant role in the 2018 midterms and are poised to shape elections in 2020 and beyond. For decades, this…
By: Lou Yeboah “… Wash me through and through. Create in me a clean heart so that I may worship You. Do it for me, Lord ¬ Change me!” [Change Me – Tamela Mann]. I tell you, we all have to make this our sincere, daily prayer: Oh God, Change me! Create in me a…
Madison Mayhew Justice and Peace Policy Fellow As the Justice and Peace Policy Fellow, I’ve had a unique opportunity to expand my policy advocacy and organizing experience within the environmental justice space. I have seen firsthand the powerful response of youth climate activists, witnessed the passion of environmental groups advocating for change and have personally…
ROLLING OUT — “For years now, this district has not seen or served African American, Black kids,” Golddie Williams said at a district school board meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, according to the East Bay Times. Williams, an active parent in the group, has a daughter who attends El Cerrito High School. “That all…
SACRAMENTO – The California For All: Census 2020 Campaign welcomes four Census Ambassadors to help educate and empower the hardest-to-count Californians to take part in the upcoming 2020 Census. The following influencers have committed to leveraging their own voices and platforms to support the Census campaign: Danny Trejo (@officialdannytrejo), actor and entrepreneur Ashlee Marie Preston…
By Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire Contributor Black women are some of the most amazing females on the planet. There are many fraudulent images and concepts about Black women in American culture, where they are considered angry, hard to talk to and unintelligent. The image of Black women as a B, gives everyone in the country,…
Remembering those we lost “If a man dies, can he live again? I will wait all the days of my compulsory service.. Until my relief comes…”Job 14:14 Kobe Bryant was 41 years old and in the prime of his life when he died yesterday. But his legacy lives on–and we’re not talking about his basketball…
Mentors include Dr. Anthony Blacksher (Professor at SBVC), Mr. Hardy Brown II (SB County Board of Education Trustee), Mr. Rikke Van Johnson (Former Councilmember 6th Ward) with Social Lites Beautillion Knights at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast. Mr. Derek Williams, Chief of Police for City of Ontario speaks to participants of Beautillion program…
LOS ANGELES, CA, January 21, 2020 – On Monday, January 20, 2020, Covered California Executive Director, Peter V. Lee, was honored to join the Los Angeles community for the Kingdom Day Parade. The annual parade is the largest celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and is the only federal holiday designated…
California State University, Northridge psychology professor Que-Lam Huynh has been named an “emerging scholar” by leading education magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Each year, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education recognizes an interdisciplinary group of minority scholars under the age of 40 as “emerging scholars.” Scholars are selected based on factors such as commitment to…
Top 48 emerging basketball stars take the court in the Annual Girls and Boys Games on April 1 January 23, 2020 – Brandon Boston Jr. and Ziaire Williams of Sierra Canyon High School and Josh Christopher of Mayfair High School joined the rich legacy of high school basketball elite as they were selected to the…
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., President and CEO, National Newspaper Publishers Association Why is it that poor people are always asked to pay more in America? Last year, I warned about the possibility that Congress might try to impose a new tax on air travelers. Well, it’s 2020 — and here we go again….
By Maynard Eaton Commentary: What would Martin Luther King Jr. say? As Georgia and the United States paused to commemorate his 91st birthday and the MLK Jr. National Holiday over the weekend, Georgia Democrats hosted a candidate forum excluding all the African-American candidates running for United States Senate to defeat David Perdue. Making matters worse,…
By Jourdan Bennett-Begaye Ethnic Media Services, Indian Country Today The first enumeration of the 2020 Census starts this week in Toksook Bay, Alaska, a remote Yup’ik village on the coast of the Bering Sea. The U.S. Census Bureau wanted to get a head mcount of residents in the village while the ground was still frozen….
U.S. Citizen Repatriation from China The County has been notified by the State Office of Emergency Services that Ontario International Airport may serve as the repatriation point for up to 240 U.S. citizens, including nine children, arriving from the Wuhan region of China in a U.S. State Department-chartered aircraft. County departments and personnel are working…
EngageCA.org invites Californians to share their vision for building an age- and disability-friendly California SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Aging (CDA) announced the launch today of an updated engagement campaign, EngageCA.org, that encourages Californians to share their vision for a new Master Plan for Aging that will promote an age-friendly California. With the state’s…
NEW YORK (PRWEB) JANUARY 22, 2020The cost of military expenditure is high and it undermines strategies for tested peaceful solutions in conflict zones around the world. In a new interview with C.M. Rubin, Founder of CMRubinWorld, Scilla Elsworthy, author of The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War, discusses case studies from her…
SU2C to Fund a New Health Equity Breakthroughs Research Team; and Announced an International Team to Intercept Gastric Cancer which Disproportionately Affects Minority Populations; Will Collaborate with Black Women’s Health Imperative and Friends of Cancer Research in PCORI-Supported Clinical Trial Advocate Training for Black Women SU2C Health Equity Initiative is Aimed at Reducing Racial and…