By Jenn Selva and Kelly McCleary, CNN The men shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in August 2020 can potentially be referred to at his trial as “rioters” or “looters,” a Wisconsin judge said Monday while reiterating his long-held view that attorneys should not use the word “victim.” Defense lawyers maintain the young man acted in self…
California Black Media News Staff Since California banned affirmative action 25 years ago, experts say data shows significant drops in the numbers of Blacks and other minorities attending universities and securing government contracts in the state. In education, for example, Ed Trust West, an Oakland-based nonprofit and research organization focused on equity, says the repealing…
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – The Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), a private graduate school in Claremont, Calif. has added San Bernardino Valley College (SBVC) to its articulation agreements, essentially giving qualified Pharmacy Tech students a clear pathway to transfer and completion of their studies at the college. “We are thrilled to include SBVC as our newest…
MBA alumni from Harvard, London, Columbia, Cornell, Michigan, Emory, Georgia State, and Georgia. ATLANTA (November 1, 2021) — Morris Brown College boasts a new mentorship program that matches local MBA professionals from eight prestigious schools with its growing base of diverse students. The inaugural program will support a select number of full-time juniors and seniors…
A lost hiker in Colorado ignored repeated cell phone calls from a rescue team, reports the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. He got separated from his trek mates for almost 12 hours and the rescue team searched for him all night long, finally giving up early the next morning. A short while later the…
In a new statewide study, EVITARUS Public Opinion Research aims to listen to the voices of California’s Black and African American residents—as a part of the firm’s ongoing Listening to Black Californians study. Beginning in November, EVITARUS will conduct online focus groups among Black and African Americans residents to discuss their perspectives, opinions, and experiences…
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., National Newspaper Publishers Association President and CEO Over the past year and a half, New Jerseyans of all backgrounds have struggled to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and economic insecurity. Friends and family got sick, and tragically, some passed away from the COVID-19 virus. Data collected in June and…
Washington, D.C. – Representatives of the Project 21 black leadership network plan to meet with AT&T leaders Tuesday to urge the telecommunications giant to maintain its business relationship with the One America News (OAN) Network. The NAACP recently demanded that the company “drop OAN immediately.” “It seems odd that a purported civil rights group like…
An overwhelming majority of California peace officers say their training is superior to that in other states, but strong majorities also say California should monitor training outcomes, incorporate research, and adjust curricula accordingly, the Little Hoover Commission finds in its latest Issue Brief. In the Brief, its newest resource for state policymakers that outlines current…
LOS ANGELES – The Executive Office of the Board of Supervisors has released a short documentary memorializing the first all-women Board of Supervisors since the Board’s inception in 1852. The short documentary features the current Board as well as the two women who previously served on the Board – Yvonne Burke (1979-1980 and 1992-2008) and…
BY MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN After her freshman year at San Francisco State was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, Marissa Ledesma fled from the campus vowing never to return. It wasn’t just the fast-spreading coronavirus that poisoned the well. Her whole first year was a bust, from an emotionally trying saga with her roommate to paying…
California Secretary of state Shirley N. Weber has certified the votes from the Sept. 14, 2021, California Gubernatorial Recall Election. The election marked the second time since 1913 that a recall petition made it to the polls in California. The results for the question on the ballot asking whether Gov. Gavin Newsom should be recalled…
By Lou Yeboah “I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you” [1 Chronicles 21:10]. Three years of famine, or three months to be defeated by your foes with the sword of your enemies overtaking you, or else three days the sword of the LORD; the plague…
Michael Neuroth “I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer grey skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are grey.” – Zubair Eight years ago this week, then-13-year-old Zubair and his sister Nabeela testified before Congress on the impact of the U.S. armed drone program. One year before, a U.S….
By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher, The San Diego Voice and Viewpoint Veterans Day was created as “Armistice Day” on November 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. It became a national holiday by an act of Congress in 1938. As we honor the memory of those who served in…
Compared to prior generations, millennials—defined by the Pew Research Center as people born between 1981 and 1996—are known to be better educated, more likely to live in big cities, and more likely to delay marriage and start families. While they have also had lower homeownership rates than older generations of the same age, millennial home…
San Bernardino City Unified School District Superintendent Doc Ervin will join Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona on Friday, November 12, 2–3:30 p.m. ET, for a webinar about student mental health hosted by The Kennedy Forum. The webinar, titled School-Based Mental Health: A National Priority, will explore how education systems across the country can address…
SAN BERNARDINO Calif. –The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has filed a misdemeanor complaint against Blanca Gomez, a Victorville councilwoman and Robert Rodriguez from Victorville. In our filing, three separate incidents occurred that resulted in these charges. On July 20, 2021, the following counts are alleged to have occurred at a City Council meeting…
By Cheryl Smith, Publisher of I Messenger Media and Texas Metro News I love teaching! When I was eight-years old, my friends were playing “house” and “doctor.” I was in another room with my sister, two younger cousins and any neighborhood child I could round up on our street in Newark, NJ, and we were…
African American Men live 6.5 years shorter lives than the average male, And 7.7 years shorter lives than African American Women. Men live sicker and die younger than women, leaving wives, daughters, sons, and sisters behind. Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that more than half the elderly women living in…
By Brad Knox Over the years, corporations have become more creative in developing characters synonymous with their brands. From the lonely nameless Maytag Repairman to Progressive’s quirky sales rep Flo and Jake from State Farm, beloved mascots give many products iconic voices that withstand the test of time. The Aflac Duck waddled into the business…
By Devon M. Sayers and Maria Cartaya, CNN (Updated) Video Below Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who in March 1955, at the age of 15, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a White person on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, is seeking to get her conviction expunged. © CNN “I guess…
Covered California welcomed Secretary Xavier Becerra of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to officially launch Affordable Care Act open enrollment in California and across the nation for the 2022 coverage year. Open enrollment is a time when Americans can sign up for or renew their health coverage through Affordable Care Act (a.k.a….
