Year: 2023

The donation from SoCalGas’ Fueling Our Communities initiative will increase the number of individuals served by Family Service Association’s food security program RIVERSIDE, CA-On Thursday, August 3rd, 2023, SoCalGas announced a $150,000 donation to Family Service Association (FSA), as part of the company’s $4 million dollar Fueling Our Communities initiative. To commemorate this investment, SoCalGas…

The San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) proudly announces the appointment of Terry Comnick as the District’s new Associate Superintendent. With an extensive background in education finance and administration, he brings a wealth of experience and expertise to his new role, overseeing the District’s budget and leading the Business Services, Facilities, and Operations Divisions….

Keep Kids Cool and Safer in Hot Weather Sacramento, Calif. – Back to school is near and as families gather essentials for the new year, heat preparedness must remain top of mind. Ensuring the safety of our children during extreme heat events is critical to their well-being and educational success. It is crucial that we…

The city could guarantee payment to lawyers who win cases for renters, as alleged abuses continue despite 2021 anti-harassment law. Thousands of Los Angeles residents who live in rent-controlled dwellings have accused their landlords of trying to drive them out in order to charge higher rents to new tenants. Two years ago, the city passed…

Families have until August 18 to request reissuance of expired 2021 P-EBT 2.0 benefits  RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. — Residents whose children qualified for, but didn’t use extra pandemic food benefits in 2021 now have more time to request a reissuance.    Pandemic EBT (or P-EBT) is a federal program that provides food assistance to eligible…

By Lou  K. Coleman Repent before it is too late!  How can we possibly live in the day and age in this world that we are living in right now, seeing the news, seeing what’s taking place, and not realize that the Bible has prophesied everything that has taken place, and everything that will take…

Antonio Ray Harvey| California BlackMedia Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), along with other Democratic lawmakers and April Grayson — a witness who last month testified against a sex trafficking bill proposing stiffer penalties for repeat offenders – have disclosed receiving death threats laced with the n-word and other racial slurs. Jones and Grayson, who are…

By Selen Ozturk A new $117 million CalFIRE program aims to shade kids from record heat by replacing school pavement with drought-tolerant green space. As extreme heat scorches California, schools preparing to reopen across the Bay Area are also preparing to use the first $47 million of a new $117 million CalFIRE program to shade…

ScaleTrains, a manufacturer of HO, N, and S Scale model trains, will be visiting the Corona Model Railroad Society for a Meet & Greet on Wednesday, August 9, 2023. The event will take place at the society’s clubhouse (Address: 510 W Foothill Pkwy, Corona, CA 92882). The doors open at 6:40PM. This is a 50-state…

By David J. Byrd One of the most iconic photographs in recent sports history is one of basketball legend Michael Jordan celebrating his fourth NBA championship by holding up three fingers in celebration with a cigar in his mouth.    Like millions of other Black Americans, Jordan enjoys the occasional simple pleasure of smoking a…

Approximately 250 Southern California education leaders attended the first Learn.Lead.Liberate conference, and there were 16 education leaders from San Bernardino County, representing the following schools: New Designs Charter, Provisional Accelerated Learning Charter Academy, Ontario Charter, Myers Elementary, Sierra High School, PAL Charter Academy. Creating education environments that work to eliminate inequity and injustice for students,…

By Kerry Mitchell Brown, Ph.D This country has never had equitable and inclusive structures, and colorblindness has never been a thing. The national identity built into our structures, laws, practices, and lived experiences is White supremacist. Race and skin color have always had consequences in this country. Affirmative action was introduced because racist systems and…

RIVERSIDE, CA — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Representative Mark Takano (D-Calif.-39), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, hosted a roundtable conversation with local veterans highlighting the Honoring our PACT Act, which expands Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits to those exposed to toxic substances, ahead of the August 9th…

U.S. rice farmers beginning harvest on largest crop in years ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – On the news that market manipulator and largest exporter of rice in the world, India, has slapped an export ban on all non-basmati rice, people in the U.S. began panic buying of rice. They can rest assured – there’s enough U.S. rice…