Opinion: Screaming Without Vocal Cords Many Black Men Are Falsely Accused and Silenced

RICHMOND, Virginia – May 12, 2021 – Patrick C. Graham, Ph.D., who currently serves as a Senior Policy Advisor for the City of Richmond and Executive Advisor for ReWork Richmond, penned the following Op-Ed outlining his perspective on criminal justice reform. Opinion: Screaming Without Vocal Cords Many Black Men Are Falsely Accused and Silenced The…

Episode Two Of “Joyland,” Explosive And Timely New Scripted Television Series Set In Tumultuous 1960s, Takes On Racial Protests, School Desegration Busing, And New York City Basketball Dreams

NEW YORK – April 26, 2021 – Hailed as “gritty and real,” the powerful second episode of the new explosive and timely eight-episode scripted television series Joyland – which takes viewers back to the tumultuous 1960s where today began – has dropped on the YouTube channel.  Episode 102 tackles racial protests, hate crimes, political corruption,…

Dr. Bryant T. Marks Cites Role Of Implicit And Explicit Bias In Violence And Harassment Against Asians

Celebrities Marlo Hampton, Clifton Powell Join #SeeME Campaign to End Unconscious Bias  ATLANTA, GA – Bryant T. Marks, Ph.D., one of the nation’s leading implicit bias trainers,  was interviewed last week on the TMZ Live and Fox Soul TV calling on Americans to recognize and address their unconscious biases towards each other. Speaking hours before…

SoCalGas Provides $50,000 in Grant Funding to Support Minority Students in the San Gabriel Valley and Inland Empire

The grants are part of the utility’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiative LOS ANGELES – March 16, 2020 – Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced its donations to the Society of Extraordinary Women (SOEW) and The Pasadena Delta Foundation, Inc. (PDF) with $25,000 grants respectively to provide supplies and services to aid female high…

The Executive Leadership Council Increases Educational Scholarships To $1 Million Dollars In Support Of Black College Students

WASHINGTON DC (February 23, 2021) – The Executive Leadership Council (ELC), the pre-eminent membership organization committed to increasing the number of global Black executives in C-suites, on corporate boards and in global enterprises, will offer $1 million in scholarships for Black undergraduate students in 2021, for which scholarship applications are now being accepted. Through the…

Peiffer Wolf: Most Successful Black McDonald’s Franchise Operator Faces Racial Discrimination, Forced To Sell 7 Stores To White Owners

“Targeted for Extinction”: Former Michigan State University Track Star and Oakland A’s Player Herb Washington’s Civil Rights Lawsuit Details How McDonald’s “Redlines” Black Owners Into Sub-Par Locations and Is Now Driving Black Franchisees Out of Its System.  WASHINGTON, D.C. – February 16, 2021 – Herb Washington, a college track star at Michigan StateImage University, former…

New Federal Theatre Celebrates Black History Month With Retrospective Readings Series Featuring Noteworthy Plays

NEW YORK — On Saturdays from February 13 to 27, 2021 New York’s New Federal Theatre (NFT) will present “New Federal Theatre Celebrates Black History Month,” a retrospective readings series in which three rarely-done yet noteworthy plays, all previously produced by NFT, will be recreated by savvy actors and directors. These plays illuminate burning issues…

Barstow High School Teacher Who Died from COVID-19 Leaves Behind Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse

Irvine, California – Attorneys representing an alleged victim of recently deceased Barstow High School Teacher Katherine O’Neill announced the filing of new allegations against additional Barstow Unified School District employees and Administrators.  Click Here for complaint: O’Neil was arrested in March 2019 by San Bernardino County Authorities on suspicion of having a sexual relationship with…

Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Lineage — United States, December 29, 2020–January 12, 2021

Summer E. Galloway, PhD1; Prabasaj Paul, PhD1; Duncan R. MacCannell, PhD2; Michael A. Johansson, PhD1; John T. Brooks, MD1; Adam MacNeil, PhD1; Rachel B. Slayton, PhD1; Suxiang Tong, PhD1; Benjamin J. Silk, PhD1; Gregory L. Armstrong, MD2; Matthew Biggerstaff, ScD1; Vivien G. Dugan, PhD1 On December 14, 2020, the United Kingdom reported a SARS-CoV-2 variant…

Bedding Industries Of America West Signs Lease For 80,000-Sq.-Ft. Plant In Southern California

NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. – The flagship licensee of Eclipse International, Bedding Industries of America, will open a new 80,000-square-foot manufacturing, showroom and distribution center at 1798 Linden Ave. in Rialto, California. The factory will be called BIA WEST and is scheduled to open April 1st. It will employ 120 when fully operational and serve retailers…

Meet The African American Founder That Raised $1.05M For Her Consumer Electronics Startup

Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — It’s no secret that the consumers’ electronics market is an extremely competitive space. For the last decade, there have been many key players with only two who take up 56% of the market alone. With very little diversity in the electronics field, this founder took advantage of that void. Chaymeriyia Moncrief, the…

San Bernardino City Unified Welcomes New Cabinet Member

Longtime District Educator and San Bernardino Native Promoted to Key Position The San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) Board of Education recently promoted career educator and San Bernardino native Ana Applegate to assistant superintendent of the Educational Services Division, which oversees the academic achievement of students from kindergarten through high school.  Applegate, first hired…