By: Lou Yeboah “After all I’ve done for you. I have loved you, with an everlasting love [Malachi 1:2], but instead of receiving Me with delight, you receive Me not. [John 1:11]. You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart people. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people; A people that…
In 2018 Taraji P. Henson announced that she was engaged to Kelvin Hayden, years after they were spotted holding hands in Miami. Unfortunately wedding bells won’t be ringing for the couple after all. Henson, 50, has confirmed that she and 37 year-old former NFL player, Kelvin Hayden have ended their engagement. She was a part…
Sacramento – California State Treasurer Fiona Ma announced today the availability of approximately $36.7 million in mental health wellness grants for children and youth. This competitive grant program funds facility acquisition, construction and/or renovation, equipment acquisition, and applicable program startup or expansion costs for crisis residential treatment facilities, crisis stabilization facilities, mobile crisis support teams,…
Exciting New Attraction Delivers a Contactless and Immersive Family Experience Featuring Everyone’s Favorite Legendary Hot Wheels Cars, Monster Trucks & More! Coming Soon to the Inland Empire – Tickets on Sale Friday, October 30th at 10AM October 26, 2020: [Ontario, CA] – Raycom-Legacy Content Company, in partnership with Mattel, Inc., announced today the all-new Hot…
By Khalil Abdullah, Ethnic Media Services Fleeing persecution in Nigeria, arriving in the United States, Pastor Ben said he was immediately taken into detention. “I was told I would see the judge in two weeks,” the time stretched to “five years and two months only because I asked for asylum at the airport.” Pastor Ben…
RIVERSIDE – As part of its longstanding history, the San Bernardino-Riverside Area Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated will honor two outstanding community leaders with the Dorothy Inghram Social Action Advocate Award on Sunday, November 8, 2020. The Chapter proudly announces the selection of Dr. Judy D. White as a 2020 honoree in…
Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media As cities across California take a closer look at unfair practices in the criminal justice system, Proposition 25 offers a statewide policy that could aid their efforts: getting rid of cash bail. The ballot measure, which is based on SB 10, a bill former Gov. Jerry Brown signed into…
Urgent action is needed to tackle the largest anticipated wave of students transferring due to COVID-19, economic- recession and sig-nificant racial justice implications WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Anticipating a larger-than-ever wave of students transferring across higher education institutions due to COVID-19 and the economic recession, today a diverse group of 25 policy, advocacy,…
By Joe Biden There is injustice in America. There is discrimination. There is a legacy of racism and inequality that lives still in our institutions, our laws, and in too many people’s hearts that makes it harder for Black people to succeed. These are facts in the United States of America in 2020, and we…
By Barrington M. Salmon, NNPA Newswire Contributor In recent months, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, and several lower-level Trump administration officials had been warning about the danger posed by homegrown domestic terrorists. Those concerns escalated throughout the summer after clashes between protestors who were marching to remonstrate against the…
Voters are seeing an additional $153,466,506 being spent on ads for ballot measures in 2020 as compared to the last Presidential cycle, so far with over two weeks to go. SACRAMENTO – The California Target Book has compiled charts to easily track how much money is being spent in 2020 compared with past election…
With COVID cases increasing in 38 states, industry leaders call on public health officials to ensure nursing homes have resources needed and for Congress to pass additional funding WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and assisted living communities across the…
By: Lou Yeboah “For I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot, but because you are lukewarm, I’m about to spit you out of My mouth. And because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you…
Amy Johnson Minister for Sexuality Education and Justice I’ve been thinking a lot about words lately, and language, encouraged by the indomitable Rev. Dr. Velda Love in the Sacred Conversations to End Racism Fall Institute. I’ve been thinking about the characteristics of white supremacy culture, and how “worship of the written word” is included on…
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Innis Lake Entertainment Media is set to release “Business Ethics” direct to consumer on multiple digital platforms this fall. The dark comedy stars Larenz Tate, best known for his roles in the hit STARZ series Power, and films such as: Menace II Society, Dead Presidents and Love Jones. …
By Dr Phillip Gould At a hearing before a Senate subcommittee on Capitol Hill, CDC Direct Robert Redfield said any vaccine is unlikely to be widely available to most Americans before the summer or early fall of 2021, given initial constraints on supplies if and when a vaccine wins approval from the Food and Drug…
The Supreme Court on October 13th allowed the Trump administration to halt the 2020 census count ahead of schedule, effectively shutting down what has been the most contentious and litigated census in memory and setting the stage for a bitter fight over how to use its numbers for the apportionment of the next Congress. One week later, Ethnic Media Services…
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Richard Stengel, an under Secretary of State in President Barack Obama’s administration and an editor at Time, suggested that Trump’s condition may have approached a fatal point, saying, “I’m not a doctor, but throwing an experimental antibody cocktail, plus dexamethasone, plus remdesivir, plus supplemental oxygen all at the same time suggests the…
By Jay King As President and CEO of the California Black Chamber of Commerce I know the importance of creating and keeping jobs – especially in the Black community. I also understand the damage done with every job that is lost and how much worse that is in the middle of a recession that has…
Tanu Henry | California Black Media When you get your California election ballot soon – that’s if you don’t have it already –expect to see Kanye West’s name on it. The 43-year-old rapper and business mogul is on the California ballot as the candidate for vice president on the American Independent Party (AIP) ticket. The presidential candidate on the AIP ticket…
(San Bernardino, CA) – As part of Omnitrans’ ongoing efforts to provide a safe transportation system for everyone, Omnitrans is inviting transit riders and the public to provide feedback regarding safety in and around bus stops and projects that might encourage them to use the bus more often. Feedback from the survey will inform proposals for additional safety projects at and around bus stops, part of a Bus Stop Safety Improvement…
Solutions are often so obvious that they go unnoticed. How long did it take for us to figure out the advantage of placing wheels on luggage? Police misconduct is a pervasive problem that costs American taxpayers millions of hard eared dollars, not to mention innocent lives. These issues would not exist if the unions were…
Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media California is expanding aid and protections to health care workers as the COVID-19 pandemic continues through two new laws and an executive order. Late last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order that orders new actions on health care in response to the pandemic. The order allows public health officials working to mitigate…
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “All Americans deserve equitable access to affordable housing and the physical, emotional and financial security it represents,” said Lisa Rice, CEO, National Fair Housing Alliance. “JPMorgan Chase’s new commitments will help make owning or renting a reality for more Black and Latinx families, whose housing access has been impeded by decades of…
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Sickle cell disease affects 20 million people worldwide, including at least 100,000 in the United States, mainly African Americans, but Hispanics and Asian-Americans, too. To help address the problem on a global scale, the NHLBI has been supporting programs in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 75 percent of the sickle cell disease…
