By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Tyrannosaurus, velociraptors and brachiosaurus—run for your lives. The cloned dinosaurs from the theme park Jurassic World are in trouble on the volcanic isle of Isla Nublar, which is erupting, spewing hot lava and emitting a deadly ash cloud. If they…
Written by Connie Larkman Everyone has a right to live. That statement, the focus of this week’s Poor People’s Campaign rally in Washington, D.C., on June 11, prompted powerful speeches, drew signs with a number of different calls to action around jobs, income, the right to organize and housing, resulted in more 100 arrests in…
Deenabandhu Manchala Global Ministries Area Executive for Southern Asia In April I attended the Global Ministries’ gathering of anti-human trafficking activists in Kupang, Indonesia. A group of us went to the airport to join a community as they received the body of a man named Mingus as it was returned from Malaysia. The 40-year old…
By Lou Yeboah And yet, still, you are in need of milk. Shame on you! “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God…” [Hebrew 5:12-14]. I tell you, you got to grow up! Over and over we are…
LOS ANGELES — June 18, 2018 — Cedars-Sinai Blood Donor Services is awarding a lifetime achievement award to longtime blood and platelet donor Haskell Anderson III. “I’m honored to be able to do this for people in need,” says Anderson, who has donated platelets 200 times in the last 30 years. Anderson still remembers the…
WASHINGTON — Today, a broad coalition of leaders of national civil rights organizations released a letter to the National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell objecting to the NFL’s new rule censoring players’ peaceful protests during the national anthem of police violence against unarmed African Americans and other people of color. When players take a knee…
WASHINGTON, DC — (June 19, 2018)Today, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) joined more than 100 of her colleagues in introducing the Keep Families Together Act of 2018 in response to the Trump administration’s insidious practice of family separation. This bill has also been introduced in the Senate by Senator Diane Feinstein of California. “The separation of…
(LOS ANGELES) – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), released the following statement today on the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration stance that has led to forced separation of families and horrific accounts of children being taken from their parents: “Our nation’s soul is at…
Washington, D.C.—Today, the Trump administration released a final rule that clears the way for an unprecedented expansion of so-called “Association Health Plans,” which are exempt from critical insurance safeguards. Moreover, many association health plans likely will pursue strategies that are carefully designed to keep people with preexisting conditions from buying policies. The sale of these…
On June 16, 2018, women of the Social Lites, Inc. were in the community at San Bernardino Juneteenth Annual Festival at Anne Shirrells Park to promote and educate community on Healthy Living. The weather was great! It was great to see community come together for a wonderful event. There was music, dancing, food and many…
June 19 (UPI) — Starbucks announced Tuesday it plans to close 150 underperforming stores in the 2019 fiscal year. The company will triple its traditional annual average of closing about 50 stores as part of a streamlining effort including rapidly optimizing its U.S. store portfolio. “While certain demand headwinds are transitory, and some of our…
REDLANDS, CA- A Juneteenth Celebration and unveiling of a Memorial honoring Israel Beal, a former slave, who came to California and bought twenty acres of land in Lugonia; next he purchased seventeen and one- half acres adjoining this, and then ten acres in Redlands. The Redlands property has since been traded for twenty acres adjoining…
The administration of “family values” has created a narrative that immigrants are not moms or dads, only criminals. Sheryl Estrada June 11, 2018 Families fleeing dire situations are having their children torn from their arms due to a new “zero tolerance” Trump administration policy. Presidential Adviser Ivanka Trump on Twitter boasted of cuddling her two-year-old…
In 2016, Matthew Tucker was killed by officers from the Riverside County Sheriff’s office, who were called in for a suicide crisis intervention. Riverside County, CA (BlackNews.com) — Temecula, CA is a location families relocate to, attracted by a better school district in a ‘safer’ neighborhood. Temecula, California had earned a reputation for being the…
By Greg Palast THE CASE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING 50 years ago today, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. This is the story of RFK’s profile in political courage, gambling his brother’s election to the Presidency in order to save Martin Luther King Jr. from lynching. It was a Republican, Martin Luther King Sr., who made…
Every year, the Board of Education of the San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) honors employees who have dedicated years to our students and community and who have gone above and beyond in Making Hope Happen. SBCUSD recognized a total of 7 employees for 40 years of service. The District recognized an additional 4…
Washington, DC – Students trapped in failing schools can be freed by encouraging competition among public schools through the provision of vouchers and “Tax Credit Scholarships,” according to the black leadership network Project 21 in the latest installment of its “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America.” Project 21 suggests funding these programs by…
Americans want more out of education than good test-takers. But what? By Helen F. Ladd/NNPA?ESSA June 5, 2018 Standardized test scores have been the driving force in U.S. education for more than two decades. But across the country, parents concerned about the psychic toll of high-stakes testing on their children have been “opting out” of…
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – More than 5,000 students, alumni and guests came out for Cal State San Bernardino’s annual end-of-the-year party, Coyote Fest, hosted by the university’s Santos Manual Student Union Program Board on June 8. This year’s carnival-themed event took place at the university’s athletic fields, changing its location from the John M. Pfau…
By Charlene Crowell June 12, 2018 In reaction to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) suspension of an important fair housing rule, a groundswell of national advocacy has emerged calling to preserve the rule and its goals of fair housing for all. To date, and in separate actions, both cities and states are…
RIVERSIDE, CA— Assemblymember Jose Medina (D-Riverside) released the following statement on alleged comments made by a security guard at the Riverside-Downtown Metrolink station: “Over the weekend, a young woman and her family allegedly confronted racially insulting words from a security guard while boarding Metrolink on their way to the beach and were subsequently kicked off…
WASHINGTON, DC – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee), issued the following statement Monday regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, holding that the process at issue – failure to vote as the basis for canceling voter…