By Delegate N. Scott Phillips As Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding, we should do so with both pride and purpose. Two hundred and fifty years is an extraordinary milestone and is worthy of reflection on the ideals of democracy, and liberty and justice for all. For African Americans, the American story…
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media California voters will decide 14 statewide ballot measures on Nov. 3 after state leaders struck a last-minute compromise that removed one of the election’s most contentious proposals — a measure that would have made it significantly harder for cities and counties to raise money for local services. The…
Supreme Court Strikes Down Birthright Citizenship Order, Advocates Link It to Voting Rights Fight By BlackPressUSA.com Contributing writer Clint Combs reports on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling upholding birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, striking down Trump’s executive order. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, arguing the amendment has been “repurposed,” while Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned…
ZAIDEE STAVELY California’s audacious goal of having half of all K-12 students enrolled in bilingual education programs by 2030 has encountered one big stumbling block — there aren’t enough qualified bilingual teachers. To help remedy that, a $10 million grant tucked in the state budget aims to help school districts recruit high school students as…
How 1960s Montreal Helped Shape the Global Movement for Black Liberation (San Francisco, CA) — Revealing the largely untold history of anti-Black racism in Canada, “True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power” premieres Monday on PBS’s INDEPENDENT LENS. Through historic archives and the voices of those who lived through 1960s Montreal, “True North” explores pivotal…
By Crusader Staff For nearly four decades, millions of Americans welcomed Tony Brown into their homes each week. But Brown was never interested in simply hosting another television program. He wanted to transform the way Black America saw itself—and the way the nation saw Black America. Brown, the pioneering journalist, broadcaster, educator and civil rights…
By BlackPressUSA Newswire DETROIT – Words from Emma Lazarus’ poem The New Colossus, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp by the golden door,” seem to have been etched from the…
By BlackPressUSA Newswire Black midwives are going beyond the limits of conventional care to help communities confront the maternal healthcare crisis. The persistent U.S. maternal healthcare crisis is increasingly putting midwives in the spotlight as being part of the all-hands-on-deck approach to reducing the number of women having pregnancy related complications that too often include…
By Wanda Haynes Certified-Sommelier Vegans avoid all meat, dairy, eggs, wool, feathers, leather, fur, honey, seafood, fish, and animal-derived materials. This includes products tested on animals, and places that use animals for entertainment. The wine they drink must foster their diet and beliefs. The term “fining” is a process of adding substances to rid the…
By BlackPressUSA Newswire For generations, environmental justice in Black America has been measured in asthma rates, cancer diagnoses and poisoned drinking water. Scientists now say another consequence may be emerging: chemicals and microscopic plastics omnipresent in everyday life could be harming Black men’s fertility. GreenLiving & Environmental Issues Researchers have found that Black men tend…
Kern County built its healthcare system on foreign medical talent. What happens if the international pipeline breaks? This story was produced for the USC Center for Health Journalism’s Ethnic Media Collaborative. By Cecil Egbele “Kern County chose me,” said Dr. Ololade Oladimeji. “I did not exactly choose Kern County.” Known as Dr. Lola, Oladimeji is…
BETTY MÁRQUEZ ROSALES California is modifying how it pays for preschool by moving the entire California State Preschool Program under the same constitutional funding guarantee that supports students in transitional kindergarten through community college. It might appear to be a simple shift from one funding bucket to another. But some education advocates say the decision…
By Rhonda L. Randall, D.O., Chief Medical Officer at UnitedHealthcare, Employer & Individual As families prepare for the upcoming school year, many are focused on school supplies, schedules and getting back into routines. But one of the most important back-to-school steps happens before the first day of class: scheduling a well-child visit. Because many pediatric…
By Jongwon Lee GAINESVILLE, Ga. — After months of opposition from residents, local officials and congressional delegates, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has abandoned plans to convert two Northeast Georgia warehouses into immigration detention facilities. DHS announced June 18 that it would withdraw from plans to convert warehouses in the small cities Oakwood and…
By BlackPressNewswire Long before Black Americans held political power, built economic influence, or could count on equal protection under the law, we had something untouchable. We had our music. Before we owned radio stations, record labels, or corporate boardrooms, we had music. Before our stories made it into mainstream history books, they lived in our…
Gov. Newsom Swears in Tomiquia Moss as Head of California Housing and Homelessness Agency Bo Tefu and Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Gov. Gavin Newsom has sworn in Tomiquia Moss as secretary of the newly established California Housing and Homelessness Agency, placing a longtime housing official at the helm of California’s efforts to…