Day: August 3, 2021

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…