By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Nearly a century after the government allegedly used trickery and eminent domain to seize their valuable property, the family of Charles and Willa Bruce are finally receiving justice. Officials in Los Angeles County reportedly have decided to return the family’s Manhattan Beach property that estimates show…
Aldon Thomas Stiles| California Black Media The threat of the COVID-19 Delta variant has become more apparent. And what was once the looming possibility of reinstating pandemic public safety guidelines is becoming reality. As this is happening, California lawmakers are pushing a number of bills to expand the use of various telecommunication options for public…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent With individuals of color expected to fill about 54 percent of the projected 1.9 million job opportunities in the natural gas, oil, and petrochemical industry over the next two decades, the American Petroleum Institute (API) has added more historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) along with…
Support the San Bernardino County Library through the Friends of the Library as they offer a BUY ONE GET ONE BOOK SALE event. All proceeds made from the sale will be used to fund special events, materials, and programs at the library branches. From August 16th-21st, buy one book and receive a second book of…
The San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) is eager to enroll the Class of 2034 to start in-person instruction on Monday, August 2. Online enrollment for kindergarten and transitional kindergarten in SBCUSD is underway. Children who will be 5 years old by September 1, 2021, are eligible to enroll in kindergarten for the 2021–2022…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent According to a new study, America’s natural gas and oil industry will need to serve as a vital driver of the nation’s post-pandemic economic recovery. The industry counts as critical to every sector of the U.S. economy and supports millions of jobs across all 50 states,…
SAN BERNARDINO, California—Dr. Scott Thayer has been named the interim president of San Bernardino Valley College (SBVC) for the 2021-22 academic year, coinciding with the start of former president Diana Z. Rodriguez’s transition to chancellor of the San Bernardino Community College District, which includes San Bernardino Valley College in San Bernardino and Crafton Hills College…
Antonio Ray Harvey |California Black Media California Secretary of State Shirley Weber says all registered Californians should vote in the special election to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom. It is scheduled for Sept. 14. “This is an extremely important election,” said Weber, who said she comes from a family of sharecroppers in Arkansas. Her family…
Rapper Fetty Wap is mourning the loss of a family member who passed away at far too young an age. The 30-year-old rapper’s daughter Lauren Maxwell has died at age 4, with the girl’s mother, Turquoise Miami, sharing the news to Instagram on Saturday, July 31, according to media reports. The post included heartbreaking footage…
Patti LaBelle’s powerhouse vocals are known to shake the heavens, and these days she’s using the strength of her voice to honor the memory of loved ones she’s lost. The talented singer and baker has had a lot of loss in her family. Her grandmother, mother, aunt and uncle all suffered from diabetes and, due…
By: Lou Yeboah Because I tell you, we haven’t seen anything yet! The world is now entering the most perilous era of human history. The worst evil is yet to come. Do not be deceived. Things are going to get bad — really bad! — before they get better. If you believe that they will…
Bentley deBardelaben-Phillips Many of the “Witness for Justice” opinion editorials authored by our team take a form of advocacy, protest, and/or witness to highlight an injustice in some corner of our global community. Often, it is a clarion call to the members our churches, as well as to our neighbors in town squares across our…
Aldon Thomas Stiles | California Black Media The California Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 has delivered a ceaseand-desist letter to the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) opposing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new vaccine requirement for state employees. The letter addressed to Paul Starkey, Deputy Director of Human Resources for CalHR, reads, “This letter…
by Ethnic Media Services | Aug 2, 2021 By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor Low-income minorities in the U.S., many of whom remain unvaccinated because of hurdles in access and information, are unfairly being blamed for the new rise in Covid infections, said Dr. Tiffani Johnson, a pediatrician with UC Davis Children’s Health Center, at an…
By: Jean Bonhomme, MD, MPH, Founder, National Black Men’s Health Network Salvatore J. Giorgianni, Jr., PharmD, Sr. Science Advisor, Men’s Health Network Men’s Health Network and the National Black Men’s Health Network urge the FDA, and the Biden Administration, to provide current COVID-19 vaccines full regulatory approval within the next 90 days. The Emergency Use…
Local officials test an array of approaches that offer hope for safe re-openings By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) – With coronavirus cases rising across the U.S. as a result of the highly contagious Delta variant, school districts nationwide are moving quickly to implement public-health precautions in preparation for fall re-openings. The scramble to put these…
The White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Initiative) today announced its eighth cohort of HBCU Scholars. This program recognizes 86 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students for their accomplishments in academics, leadership, civic engagement and much more. Currently enrolled at 54 of our nation’s HBCUs, the scholars were selected from an applicant pool…
BY NIGEL DUARA Everyone in the neighborhood knew Fabiola Favela’s ceviche. You have to trust someone to buy homemade seafood from a street cart, and Favela, 47, was that vendor in the poorest neighborhoods of Long Beach. When the coronavirus pandemic shut down food carts across Los Angeles County and the rest of the country…
Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent House and Senate Democrats are looking to the White House to immediately act to stop evictions after the federal moratorium expired on July 31. But President Joe Biden said a recent Supreme Court ruling means the administration cannot unilaterally extend the moratorium. For his part, the President…
carl@ dameroncommunications.com (La Puente, Calif.) Seniors eager to make their homes at the new Arboleda Senior Apartments in La Puente have already signed up to rent many of the brand-new apartments at the Senior Housing Community. Fortunately, there are plenty of one-and-two-bedroom apartments still available, according to Resident Manager Selina R. Chavira. “We’re continuing to…