By Khalil Abdullah RALEIGH, N.C. – Like a massive Atlantic wave quietly swelling, then forcefully breaking on the shores of the Outer Banks, controversies about the 2020 Census are disrupting North Carolina’s status quo well before the final count results two years from now. “I feel an undercount coming,” said Octavia Rainey, “a national undercount,…
Barry Anderson, BDO Contributing Writer Joe Jackson, the music manager and father of 11, died early Wednesday morning, TMZ reports. He was 89. Joe’s death eerily comes nearly nine years to the date that Michael Jackson died (June 25, 2009). A few days ago, we reported on the Jackson family patriarch had been battling terminal…
SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) today released the 2017 End of Life Option Act (Act) Annual Report. The Act, which became law June 9, 2016, allows qualified individuals diagnosed with a terminal disease to obtain and self-administer aid-in-dying drugs. The Act requires CDPH to provide annual reports, including information on the…
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act of 2018, which included legislation drafted by Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) to clarify that states do not have the option to deny health coverage to former foster youth who aged out of the foster care system in…
Riverside County, CA.—In the wake of recent high-profile celebrity suicides, behavioral health experts at Riverside University Health System are encouraging community members to educate themselves about resources available to those struggling with feelings of isolation and hopelessness. “The deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain provide all of us with an opportunity to have a…
Brendan Murphy AMA Wire Atlanta psychiatrist Patrice A. Harris will take the helm of American Medical Association after being elected president Tuesday at the Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates in Chicago. Harris, who is the chief health officer for Fulton County, becomes the first African-American woman to hold the office. Following a…
Navigating Body, Baby, Breastfeeding & Support Naima Beckles, Childbirth Educator, Birth & Postpartum Doula New York, NY — Four years ago, Naima Beckles and Michele Arrieta, joined forces and started, For Your Birth, a doula agency based in Harlem. With increase postpartum complications, guilt, concerns and letters from mothers, For Your Birth, recently created, The…
By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 26, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Using automated breast density measurements, Norwegian researchers were able to more precisely confirm that women with dense breasts have a higher risk of breast cancer. The study included more than 100,000 women and more than 300,000 screening exams. “We found that screening examinations…
By Philiana Ng One month after Grey’s Anatomy said goodbye to Sarah Drew, star Jesse Williams is looking back on her emotional final day. In the Grey’s season 14 finale that aired on May 17, Drew’s April revealed she was leaving Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital as an attending trauma surgeon for a new career helping…
By CLAUDIA LAUER, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia judge denied rapper Meek Mill’s petition for a new trial in his decade-old drug and gun convictions Monday despite support for the request by the district attorney’s office. Mill’s attorneys had asked for a new trial based on credibility issues with former Philadelphia police officer…
Written by Connie Larkman The national leadership of the United Church of Christ is condemning the U.S. Supreme Court decision that upholds President Trump’s September travel ban, which restricts citizens from predominantly Muslim countries from traveling to this country. The deeply divided court, ruling 5-4 on Trump v Hawai’i, reversed a series of lower court…
Tracey Howe Wispelwey Minister for Congregational and Community Engagement Thousands of migrant families have been separated and children put into cages and funneled into detention centers, tents in the sweltering desert or foster care thousands of miles away from parents. We now know the death toll in Puerto Rico is estimated at nearly 5,000 people….
By: Lou Yeboah You harlot…. you are just as treacherous as Israel sister Judah who went and played the whore. [Jeremiah 3:8-10]. I tell you, you are an embarrassment to God and the church. You have trangressed against the Lord your God and have scattered your charms to alien deties under every green tree… says…
Beth Warren | Louisville Courier Journal Narcotics Detective Kyle Willett made the 10-minute drive to a McDonald’s drive-thru for sweet tea and cheeseburgers before returning to work — and doing something no one expected. Alone in his white Chevrolet Tahoe — outside the UPS global shipping hub where he worked with an elite task force…
Message to avoid alcohol use is key for the upcoming Fourth of July Holiday SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW) announced today the participation of more than 40 California marine law enforcement agencies in the national boating under the influence (BUI) awareness and enforcement campaign dubbed “Operation Dry Water.” From Friday,…
Trump’s immigration policies go beyond political lines By Alana Winns June 25, 2018 Coming off the heels of political chaos at the border, Americans are still feeling emotionally affected by Trump’s family separation immigration policy. According to the Washington Post, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant, called the Red Hen,…
DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in NIFLA v. Becerra, ruling that anti-choice “crisis pregnancy centers” do not have to post information about the availability of free or low-cost abortion services: “This is a brazen assault on women’s rights and health. Once again, Republicans and their…
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) London Breed has made history, becoming the first African American woman elected mayor in San Francisco after her opponent conceded in what had been a razor-close race. Breed, who had been appointed mayor last December following the death of Mayor Ed Lee, was forced out of the post…
Dan Alexander , Forbes Staff Amid President Trump’s headaches confirming cabinet secretaries, from neophyte Rex Tillerson to conflict-prone Scott Pruitt to unprepared Betsy DeVos, all of whom squeezed through, Wilbur Ross was a tonic. With his blue power suit and decades of deal making, he had the look and the résumé of a commerce secretary….
SAN BERNARDINO, California?—In March 2018, San Bernardino Valley College was awarded 17 silver and bronze “Strong Workforce Stars” by the California Community College Chancellor’s Office to recognize it for increasing graduate earnings by up to 551%, as well as for helping students to attain a regional living wage and find employment in their field of…
By Dr. Elizabeth V. Primas (Program Manager for NNPA ESSA Public Awareness Campaign) The National Family Engagement Summit of 2018 was held in Richmond, Va. Throughout the summit, multiple opportunities were provided for attendees to interact with some of the nation’s leading experts in parent and family engagement. Participants came from near and far. Over…
By Manny Otiko | California Black Media The California Senate has approved an almost $200 billion budget which set asides money for several issues that progressive groups deem important such as education, homelessness and transportation. The budget also approves $300 million for schools to boost the academic performance of underachieving students. Thiswas an issue that…
Funds Neighborhood Public Schools Making Good on Long-Standing Commitment to California’s Students BURLINGAME – Eric Heins, president of the 325,000-member California Teachers Association (CTA), issued this statement today about the adoption of the 2018-19 state budget: “The legislature’s vote on the state budget today puts an exclamation point on California’s mandate to fund neighborhood public…
A proven success, the program will broaden its reach to serve even more Inland Empire high schoolers and their teachers beginning in fall 2018 By Tess Eyrich On June 14, 2018 RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — A $150,000 grant will enable the University of California, Riverside’s Graduate School of Education to strengthen and grow one of…
By The Washington Post/NNPA/ESSA Since 2002, the AP World History course has covered thousands of years of human activity around the planet, starting 10,000 years back. But now the College Board, which owns the Advanced Placement program, wants to cut out most of that history and start the course at the year 1450 — and…