Year: 2023

By Lou K. Coleman-Yeboah I’ve tried to get you to listen. I sent many people to you, just like I sent prophets to the people of Israel and Judah to warn them of their apostasy and impending judgment, and just like them, you too wouldn’t listen. ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing,…

Trayce Potter For thousands of young people, their senior year of high school is a season filled with hope and excitement. A culmination of studying, dreaming, growing, and developing close friendships have led to the final nine or ten months of traditional schooling and living at home. Plans are being made for final dances, prom…

By Peter White Covid-19 vaccines, testing, and treatments will no longer be free once the Public Health Emergency (PHE) expires on Jan. 11, even as the U.S. faces down a more infectious new subvariant XBB 1.5. The new subvariant accounts for 75% of new infections on the East Coast and 40% of new cases in…

Photos by Maxim Elramsisy-California Black Media  Max Elramsisy | California Black Media State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) Tony Thurmond took the oath of office to begin his second term on Jan. 7 at a ceremony conducted at Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Los Angeles. Thurmond oversees the education of 6 million PreK-12 students…

“As this settlement makes clear, the Justice Department will continue to fight discriminatory and unlawful ‘crime-free’ ordinances across the country and work to ensure that everyone has fair and equal access to housing,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Gail Fry Contributor   On December 14, The United…

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…

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…

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Although we have millions of dollars here in California allocated to the issue of homelessness, one unanswered question is how do we reduce or eliminate homelessness without addressing the issues of “rent control?” By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher | San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper Locally in the State of California,…

BY CALMATTERS PHOTO TEAM DECEMBER 28, 2022 How to remember 2022 in California? It was a big election year, but it was filled with so much more — old and new. The old: Homelessness continued to dominate public debate. The threat of wildfires stayed with us, as did the challenges of climate change. And, yes,…

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…

Sharon Fennema One of the things I love about this time on the cusp of a new year is the plethora of year-end lists that circulate. Lists of the best movies and music of 2022 abound, as well as retrospectives of significant moments in our common life. I appreciate the opportunity these lists afford us…

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…

Aldon Thomas Stiles | California Black Media Aaliyah Muhammad is a member of the civil rights group All of Us or None and a pillar of her community in Sacramento. She works tirelessly to help the homeless population along Market Street, a thoroughfare in the Sacramento County community of Walnut Grove. She also is a…