(Riverside, CA – February 15, 2022) – Feeding America Riverside | San Bernardino (FARSB) today announced a $25,000 donation worth 175,000 meals from Bank of America to address food insecurity in the region. To help fight hunger across the Inland Empire, earlier this year Bank of America announced it would make a $100 donation to…
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr Even before Coach Brian Flores filed a class-action lawsuit against the National Football League claiming the league discriminated against Black coaches in their hiring practices, it was pretty clear that professional football has a race issue. The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central…
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic Nothing is drastically wrong with this rom/com. Nothing is drastically right. That’s the problem. This Valentine’s Day offering feels like a present that’s been regifted and passed along. Jennifer Lopez took big chances in her last movie Hustlers. She played a streetwise stripper and that paid off,…
By BlackPressUSA ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — “Wendy is grateful to everybody who has guest hosted,” the source, a show insider, told The Hollywood Reporter. Though Shepherd, former co-host of The View, hasn’t officially signed the deal, the source said Wendy is happy with the choice. Wendy Williams has given her stamp of approval on Sherri…
By Lou Yeboah Trust me, I’m going somewhere with this. Confining the history of an entire race of people to a twenty-eight-day period, not only does it diminishing the significance of our contributions, but it also allows the greater truth to be erased. The declaration of February as National Black History Month is but a…
Derek Duncan God will thank you they told us yea as if God Himself ordained those powdered flakes to drift onto our skin hair eyes to seep into our bones We mistook radioactive fallout For snow – excerpt from “History Project” in Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter, by Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijin In her writing,…
BURLINGAME — California Teachers Association President E. Toby Boyd, a kindergarten educator, released the following statement in response to Monday’s COVID-19 update: “CTA remains committed to the safety of students, educators and families in our local communities. We need to continue to follow the science and look at local transmission rates and hospitalizations in guiding…
You never know what you are going to find at a yard sale; after all, as the saying goes, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” The maxim proved true for art collector Clifford Schorer, according to the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. He was in a bookstore in Massachusetts. The store’s owner asked…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the nod for a new monoclonal antibody treatment that works against the Omicron variant. The emergency use authorization for bebtelovimab is for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients at least 12 years of age who are at high risk for severe disease….
By Chris Israel Big Tech has long felt free to help itself to the good ideas of smaller companies. It’s bad enough that these giants fiercely contest the efforts of inventors to receive fair compensation — a courtroom mismatch between startup firms with a good idea but little money on one side, versus behemoths valued…
San Bernardino County doesn’t have mask rules for adults or children, but the State applies its mask requirements to everyone in California. Those State rules are about to ease now that the Omicron case and hospitalization numbers boosted by the Omicron surge have dropped dramatically. Starting on Wednesday, the State will no longer require vaccinated…
Funds will be allocated to support life-saving services for domestic violence victims Los Angeles, CA – February 15, 2022 — The S. Mark Taper Foundation issued a $50,000 grant to Jenesse Center to be utilized as unrestricted funds. This is the second grant awarded to Jenesse Center by the Foundation. Karen Earl, Jenesse CEO said,…
Tanu Henry | California Black Media NAACP California-Hawaii Conference President Rick Callender says he supports the decision of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) to slap automaker Tesla Motors with a discrimination lawsuit. The complaint accuses the company of “systemic racial discrimination and harassment.” Callender says “racism is rampant” at the electric…
Affordable rentals shrinking, growing mortgage denials block homeownership By Charlene Crowell NNPA Newswire Columnist Regardless of locale, profession, or income, every family needs and deserves a home. But for many – especially Black Americans and other people of color — finding and maintaining affordable housing is increasingly difficult. New research documents not only escalating rental…
Ashley D. Farmer In a moment when lawmakers are actively outlawing Black history in schools, it is important to think about how the past can help us make sense of the present and chart a course for a better future. Examining reparations—a concept that asks us to look at the past wrongs, learn from them,…
BY MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN A new California program to financially reward college students for volunteering has drawn national attention — but less than half of its budgeted money is going to actual student aid. The California Volunteers College Corps program, backed by $159 million in mostly state money, promises to award up to $10,000 to 6,668…
By Ben Jealous February is Black history month. The news we are making and witnessing right now reflects all the contradictions of our history—American history. The history of Black people in this country is a story not just of oppression—but of overcoming. It is a story of both savage inequality and hard-won progress. It…
By Franklyn M. Malone As one looks out across America, there are community safety issues that are proliferating across the nation, and there is much concern for personal safety. So far in 2022, there have been hundreds of individual and mass murders nationwide, and an uptick in car jackings, robberies and violent crimes. But, what…
by Malik Russell February 7, 2022— The day after President Joe Biden met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams to unveil a new plan to reduce gun violence, Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott participated in a panel discussion with national experts on gun and community violence that highlighted solutions that address violence as a…
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic The title spills the beans. In this sci-fi yarn, the filmmakers weren’t happy enough with a natural disaster: the moon hurtling towards earth. They had to add an outrageous AI storyline that makes what could have been a worthy, mildly plausible, catastrophic and action-filled movie a joke. …
Actor, filmmaker and producer Idris Elba, was named “Sexiest Man Alive” of 2018 by PEOPLE. Ever since his breakthrough role in America as drug kingpin Russell “Stringer” Bell on HBO’s hit series The Wire, he’s been making women swoon. Now his commanding portrayal of memorable characters like the gatekeeper of Asgard, Heimdall, in Marvel’s Thor…
The San Bernardino County Museum announces the 2022 dates for the popular Cosmic Nights, astronomy-themed evening events in partnership with the San Bernardino Valley Amateur Astronomers (SBVAA), and at the Victor Valley Museum, the museum’s branch in Apple Valley, in partnership with the High Desert Astronomical Society (HiDAS). San Bernardino County Museum, 2024 Orange Tree…
By Lou Yeboah Understand that nothing – no calling or circumstance, no adversity or advancement, no pain or promotion, no status or station – escapes the brush strokes of My love for you. My love bleeds into every fabric and fiber of your being. There is nowhere you can escape My love. My love for…
Tracy Blackmon Hear this, elders; pay attention, everyone in the land! Has anything like this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors? Tell it to your children, and have your children tell their children, and their children tell their children. –Joel 1:2-3 CEB One of the gifts of scripture is…