By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent President Joe Biden recently called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax through September after taking action to boost oil and gas supply chains, including the release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. According to a White House Fact Sheet, Biden has also encouraged oil companies…
By Lou Yeboah Why do you ignore My warnings? Don’t you know warning comes before destruction? Keep ignoring My warnings, and you will find yourself in Hell forever. I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and you have disregarded; Ye have set at naught all my counsel and would…
Michael Schuenemeyer On June 25, the United Church of Christ (UCC) not only celebrated its 65th birthday, but also the 50th anniversary of the ordination of the Rev. Dr. William R. “Bill” Johnson*, the first openly gay person to be ordained to Christian ministry by a predominantly heterosexual denomination. Rev. Johnson’s ordination was a pivotal…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Acclaimed filmmaker, photojournalist, writer, poet, and humanitarian Chip Duncan takes readers on a tour of Laikipia County, Kenya, in his new release, “Ewaso Village: Poems and Stories.” The SelectBooks, Inc., offering provides a birds-eye view of Ewaso Village in a unique publication that incorporates stunning full-color…
The United States is deploying an enhanced nationwide vaccination strategy to counter the continuing spread of monkeypox, federal public health officials announced at a White House briefing on Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is rapidly expanding access to hundreds of thousands of doses of the Jynneos vaccine, targeted to smallpox and…
By Mark Hedin More than two years after Covid-19’s onset, there is finally a federally approved vaccine against it in the United States for children age 6 months to 4 years old. Covid has become the fifth-leading cause of death among kids between the ages of 1 and 4, and the fourth-leading cause among those…
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center was recently honored by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) with two quality and engagement awards. CMQCC launched the Quality and Engagement Award Program to recognize and honor member hospitals for excellence in maternity care. To receive an award, the recipient hospital must have the highest level of engagement with…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Authorities on Sunday released disturbing bodycam footage of Jayland Walker, an unarmed Black DoorDash delivery driver with no criminal record shot dozens of times by Akron Police Officers. The lawyer for the 25-year-old’s family called it an execution, telling media members that police fired 90 shots,…
Over 85 percent of SoCalGas scholarship recipients are minority students majoring in STEM, accounting and finance LOS ANGELES—June 30, 2022– Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced nine students from San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Imperial County who have been awarded funds from the 2022 SoCalGas Scholarship Program. The recipients will receive scholarships eligible…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it has entered into a Conciliation Agreement with California property owners Joel and Christie A. Crowley, a property management company, Distinctive Properties Real Estate and Property Management, and property manager William Ware, resolving allegations that they discriminated against an interracial married…
By Ben Jealous Did you ever wonder whether elections really matter? Well, the Trump Supreme Court majority has answered that question for good. Or, more accurately, they have answered it for bad. In the term that has just ended, the new far right-wing majority on the Supreme Court went on a rampage. They have torn…