NFL Player Damar Hamlin In Critical Condition After Frightening Monday Night Football Incident

By Keith Reed On Monday night the NFL made the unprecedented decision to suspend a prime-time football game after a frightening incident involving a player. Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, 24, collapsed seconds after making a tackle early in the first quarter of the Bills’ Monday Night Football road game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Hamlin’s…

340B doesn’t solve health inequities

By Amy Hinojosa Advocates have long fought for federal funding to reach people in most need. Back in 1992, Congress established the 340B drug pricing program, which guaranteed drug discounts to hospitals serving a disproportionately high percentage of uninsured or low-income patients.  Congress hoped the legislation would help hospitals provide better, less expensive care. But…

“The Lord is Speaking!”

By Lou K. Coleman-Yeboah That many are not discerning what the enemy is doing in this season. The rat has come in, hiding itself, as though what is being given to the people is wholesome and good, but not so, the rat is deceptive.  Mass, unbridled deception is taken place. Wake up! For the many…

Ready for Our Earth Shot

By Ben Jealous As we greet 2023, I’m feeling more than the typical seasonal optimism. America is primed once again for a historic achievement, call it our “Earth shot.” In the 1960s and early 1970s, the United States spent the current dollar equivalent of just under $300 billion on “landing a man on the moon…

Food Safety Alert: CDC warns of Salmonella infections linked to raw alfalfa sprouts

A CDC food safety alert regarding a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections has been posted at https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/typhimurium-12-22/index.html. Key points: Fifteen people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella have been reported from Oklahoma, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Two people have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported. Interviews with 12 sick people and traceback…

California Can Solve Homelessness By 2035 If We Invest $8.1 Billion Annually For Housing  & Services 

California Homeless Housing Needs Assessment by Corporation for Supportive Housing puts a first-of-its-kind dollar figure on the investments needed to solve homelessness by 2035. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) and the California Housing Partnership, with the support of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, collaborated with multiple stakeholders to determine the…

How California Is Pulling Racism and Hate Crimes Out Into the Open

Black Californians are most affected by criminal offenses based on prejudice  McKenzie Jackson| California Black Media Officials and advocates across California are pouring resources into pointing out that racism and racial intolerance impact public health — major factors, they say, behind the substantial increase in hate crimes and hate incidents in the Golden State. In…