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Reaching WIC, Free and Low Cost Healthcare & Dental > By Dianne Anderson Giving away something for nothing isn’t as easy as it sounds. For a couple of years now, Emily Borth has been reaching out with the WIC program at Inland Behavioral Health Services in San Bernardino, and says that many local mothers have heard of the program, but are not accessing the help they need. ...

Men of Valor Awards > The Men of Valor Awards were held at Agape Family Life Center Church in Rancho Cucamonga by Love Is The Way Events last Saturday. Awardees included Stephen Cooper, Sherman Lair, Michael Townsend, Torrian Scott, David Pulido, and Roland Rogers. Photo: YMM Media ...

High Desert Resident Celebrates Ninety Years > By Eliz Dowdy High Desert resident Sadie Weems Patterson turned 90 on Friday, January 18, 2013. Patterson is the daughter of Bell Mountain homesteader Rufus Weems. They were part of a thriving Black community in the early mid-twentieth century. Her ...

Be the Match, Find Your Marrow Match > By Dianne Anderson Anyone who thinks that finding that perfect love match is hard, try looking for the perfect bone marrow match. Come February 14, Gail Mathews will try to even out the odds of finding her cousin’s perfect match. For the squeamish, the good news is that no big needles ...

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Toyota: Top Choice Among African Americans

By William Reed

The “Black Market” will play a major role among automobile makers for the next two decades. The African-American market is “the best thing going” and if automobile manufacturers don’t establish creditable linkages for their brands with this audience they will, undoubtedly, lose significant market share and

Written by: Precinct Reporter Group

Many Elders in Financial Crisis

New America Media, News Report, Paul Kleyman

SAN FRANCISCO—In a dismal week when the most positive economic news for the United States was Friday’s federal data showing anemic employment gains, the plight of ethnic elders looks “even worse than we thought it would be,” according to Henoch Derbew, coauthor of a new report, “The Economic Crisis Facing Seniors of Color.”

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Wealth Gap Widens

By HOPE YEN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics, according to an analysis of new Census data.

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Need to Expand Financial Opportunities in Communities of Color

By Camille M. Busette

The Pew Charitable Trust released a new report confirming that blacks and Latinos fared worse in the Great Recession than whites from the perspective of median wealth, or household net worth at the median. Few who have been following shifts in wealth in the United States over the last 20 years will be

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Black Bankers Empower Communities

By Hazel Trice Edney

WASHINGTON (TriceEdneyWire.com) - In his last public message the day before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called on Black people in Memphis to support Black banks. Read more...

Written by: Precinct Reporter Group

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Be the Match, Find Your Marrow Match

By Dianne Anderson Anyone who thinks that finding that perfect love match is hard, try looking for the perfect bone marrow match. Come February 14, Ga...
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Reaching WIC, Free and Low Cost Healthcare & Dental

By Dianne Anderson Giving away something for nothing isn’t as easy as it sounds. For a couple of years now, Emily Borth has been reaching out with t...
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High Desert Resident Celebrates Ninety Years

By Eliz Dowdy High Desert resident Sadie Weems Patterson turned 90 on Friday, January 18, 2013. Patterson is the daughter of Bell Mountain homestead...
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Men of Valor Awards

The Men of Valor Awards were held at Agape Family Life Center Church in Rancho Cucamonga by Love Is The Way Events last Saturday. Awardees included Stephen...
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