Tag: precinct reporter
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Prop 1: Skepticism and Hope About Mental Health Ballot Proposal
By Edward Henderson California Black Media San Francisco resident Anthony Hardnett works at Hospitality House, a community-based organization that offers recovery, reintegration and personal growth resources to people struggling with addiction and homelessness in and around the city’s downtown area. Growing up in the 1980s, Hardnett was a multi-sport star athlete. His speed on ... -
Clothes Story Exhibition: Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Stories
by Barbara Smith As a child, Kenneth Green remembers sitting with his siblings at the feet of his mother while she stitched together clothing, mending, designing, piece by piece. His mother, Lois Green, was a seamstress, known well in the San Bernardino community. Now, Green, an accomplished Atlanta-based cultural artist/producer, has created Clothes Story, a ... -
HBCU Caravan Brings College Experience Closer to Chaffey Students
High school senior Anthony Johnson knows he wants to go to college, but isn’t sure where he would like to land. Meeting with recruiters from 20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which gathered Wednesday, February 7, at Etiwanda High School, gave him some long-distance options he hadn’t thought of. And for his father, Brenton ... -
Senate Pro-Tem McGuire Appoints Black Lawmakers to Leadership
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media Three days after Sen. Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) was sworn in as the 49th President pro Tempore (Pro Tem) of the California State Senate, he appointed California Legislative Black Caucus members, Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Inglewood) and Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Ladera Heights), to leadership positions. McGuire reassigned Bradford to ... -
CA Black Caucus Introduces Reparations Package
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media Members of the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) announced plans to introduce a package of bills this year designed to address the recommendations the California reparations task force made last year in its final report. Certain advocacy groups and individuals say the legislative package the lawmakers announced on ... -
Black History Month: Fontana Parade and S.B. County Events
By Dianne Anderson This year, Fontana’s 56th Black History Parade & Expo parade is all the way live with flags, drums, marching bands, and a place where kids and grownups alike can pose with the iconic Wakanda Black Panther, and of course, enjoy legendary R&B Lakeside. Ellen Turner, president of the Concerned Citizens of the ... -
Biden-Harris Address Racial Wage Gap
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent Taraji P. Henson’s powerful statement that highlighted the glaring wage disparities faced by Black women in Hollywood perhaps pales in comparison to the meager salaries those in America’s workforce historically contend with. And on January 29, the anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the Biden-Harris ... -
Black History Month 2024 – African Americans and the Arts
African American art is infused with African, Caribbean, and the Black American lived experiences. In the fields of visual and performing arts, literature, fashion, folklore, language, film, music, architecture, culinary and other forms of cultural expression, the African American influence has been paramount. African American artists have used art to preserve history and community memory ... -
Riverside Celebrates Black History With Parade, Other Events
By Dianne Anderson Celebrations for the entire family are just getting started with Black History Month in Riverside, now including the newest ceremony on the block – the raising of the flags. On Thursday, February 1, the BLACK Collective leads the energy and focus with the raising of the “Black History Month” flag starting at ... -
Three Army Reservists Killed in Drone Attack
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent Three Black American reservists from the 926th Engineer Brigade, based at Fort Moore, Georgia, lost their lives in a drone attack on a U.S. base near the Jordan-Syria border. Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh identified the fallen soldiers as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of ...