By Larry D. Ivory, President of the National Black Chamber of Commerce Across the United States, there are 2.6 million Black-owned businesses that account for over $138 billion in revenue each year. This innovative and entrepreneurial passion is what has fostered long-term economic prosperity and sustainability in communities from coast to coast. These businesses should…
Aldon Thomas Stiles | California Black Media Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a historic $15 billion climate change package. The initiative has funds in it to combat the state’s current environmental crisis as well as to help communities prepare for and prevent any disasters that may result from shifting weather patterns and changing…
Bocchit Edmond, Haitian Ambassador to U.S. | Special to California Black Media Partners The pictures carry the weight of history. They are shocking in their own right, of course – desperate human beings, like most immigrants of old time to the United States of America from the old continent, carrying their worldly possessions, but attempting…
By Dan Ross Amid the vast water wars of the drought-parched Central Valley, the tiny community of Las Deltas in Fresno County is enduring its own largely hidden battle over California’s liquid gold. In many ways, Las Deltas projects a sense of time standing still — a feeling fostered by the decaying wooden skeletons of…
After a mask-wearing and music-filled event on Saturday, September 25 that brought much joy and excitement to the San Bernardino High School (SBHS) community, Abdel-Rahman Hussein and Jamie Villalobos were crowned the new Mr. and Miss Cardinal City, respectively. The 2021–2022 pageant was unlike any held before. According to pageant director and SBHS bilingual school…
By Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire Contributor There is a pervasive sickness in America, and it is called White supremacy, and systemic racism. These ideologies are invisible, and many Americans now believe that success has nothing to do with the color of an individual’s skin. Discrimination no longer exists, and everyone has the same opportunities. It…
San Bernardino, CA—Today, Rep. Pete Aguilar announced that Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire (NHSIE) received $273,122 and Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services, Inc. (NPHS) received $504,450 in federal grant funding from NeighborWorks America through its Housing Stability Counseling Program (HSCP). NeighborWorks is a congressionally-chartered and funded nonprofit created to help address affordable housing issues….
Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond held a press conference via zoom and on Facebook last week to unveil an ambitious new education achievement plan for California. It is a campaign that has been designed to ensure, by 2026, every California third grader will know how…
SACRAMENTO – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblywoman Luz Rivas’ (D-San Fernando Valley) Assembly Bill (AB) 1096 into law. AB 1096 eliminates the offensive term “alien” from all state laws and policies, replacing it with other language that is more reflective of today’s legal terminology, such a “noncitizen” or “immigrant.” “Today marks a huge step…
BlackPressUSA News This year marks the 60th Anniversary celebration of The Temptations, the legendary, Grammy Award-Winning group known as the “No. 1 R&B Artists of All Time” (Billboard). And releasing today is their brand-new single, “Is it Gonna Be Yes or No,” a duet between the group and the equally legendary Smokey Robinson, the man…
By Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., NNPA Newswire Culture and Entertainment Editor The film world is reeling over the loss of influential filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles who passed away yesterday in Manhattan. Van Peebles is best known for his classic independent films Watermelon Man (1970) and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), which offered a bold critique…
By: Lou Yeboah Okay, no more warnings! Have it your way. But you ought to know that there will be terrible consequences for those who refuse to repent- those who choose to do their own thing. Choosing the creation, but refusing the Creator, what’s wrong with you? You will perish [Luke 13: 3, 5] even…
John Dorhauer In his book Lies across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Smithsonian historian and author James Loewen uncovers the truth about white America: its monuments reinforce the lies we tell and the truths we hide about our racist past. Since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, there has been a…
By Ryan Whirty, The Louisiana Weekly, Contributing Writer Small business advocates and economic-improvement organizations focusing on economic development within disadvantaged New Orleans communities echoed the thoughts of Congressman Troy Carter, who wrote a letter to the heads of FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pressing the federal agencies to include small, local, disadvantaged…
New company to focus on life outcomes, beginning with $29 million investment to leverage social networks for improved health and mobility out of poverty Philadelphia, Pa. — AmeriHealth Caritas, a national leader in Medicaid managed care and other solutions for those most in need, announced today the creation of a new company, Social Determinants of…
Resources Further Advances Health Equity Efforts in Medically Underserved Communities in California Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), awarded $139,140,656 in American Rescue Plan funding to 166 health centers in California to expand their primary health care infrastructure in medically underserved communities. Additionally, to…
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Last week, California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals took an expansive but deeply personalized look at the history of Slavery, racial violence and injustice in America and traced how that past still shapes how we live now. During the two-day meeting that concluded Sept. 24,…
Blacks own 22 cents for every dollar held by whites Closing gaps would create 1.7 million jobs, add $300-450 billion to the economy By Charlene Crowell As the global pandemic continues to take lives and infect multiple generations, virtually every dimension of life is challenged. And people with the fewest financial resources before COVID-19 are…
By Lauren Victoria Burke After over 12,000 Haitian migrants gathered at the Mexican border, shocking footage of them being herded like cattle, whipped with horse lariats and treated in a way unlike any other immigrants entering the U.S. in recent memory became public. U.S. Border Control Agents on horseback were widely criticized as were the…
The Social Lites Inc. News We Mentor Men Towards A Better Future – This year marks the 65th year of the Social Lites Inc. as an organization and 55th year of us making a strong and lasting impact on our black and brown young men of our Inland Empire community. This year we are excited…