Tag: Long Beach Leader
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BOSS: Business of Success Beyond Sports
By Dianne Anderson Long Beach kids are learning how to use their innate multitasking abilities to expand on something else they naturally have in play. One of the first things that Everett Glenn always tells students in his program is that making it to the top of their sports dreams might be a one in ... -
NBA Great Kobe Bryant 1978-2020
By Willie Dee Ellison II Kobe Bryant, former NBA icon and Los Angeles Laker great was the most polarizing figure in Los Angeles sports for the past 20 years. Born in Philadelphia, raised in Italy, Kobe became LA’s adopted son in 1996 when then Los Angeles Laker General Manager Jerry West made the trade for ... -
EXCLUSIVE: Rev. Dr. William Barber II Addresses Systemic Racism with Black Press
Dr. William Barber II shined a light on poverty this weekend at the Fontana MLK Celebration hosted by Ephesians New Testament Church led by Bishop Emory James. As National Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, he called for renewed activism and leadership to overcome the systemic racism that has forced 140 million people into poverty ... -
Race Dialogue and Building Bridges Camp
By Dianne Anderson Segregation is not some awful signpost of the distant past. It’s on the playgrounds, it’s in the lunchrooms and follows kids throughout the middle and high school years. Even when students are close neighbors, they are not necessarily positively sharing their experiences and cultures. On Saturday, January 25, the California Conference for ... -
Census Jobs and Outreach
By Dianne Anderson It’s that time of decade again when people tend to pull down the shades and pretend they don’t hear the knock. But rest assured, the Census enumerators will miss no door, and will likely come around more than once until that form is filled out. Community leaders are urging the Black and ... -
African-American or Other? Race & Ethnicity On the 2020 Census Form
By Aldon Thomas Stiles California Black Media Kim Kardashian West will likely check “Black or African American” on the US 2020 Census form when marking the race of her children. In several interviews with various media outlets, the famous media personality and businesswoman, who lives in the San Fernando Valley near Calabasas, has said she’s ... -
Clyburn Hails Passage of Legislation to Lower Prescription Costs
Also Includes Clyburn Effort to Expand Community Health Centers Washington, D.C. – U.S. House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn hailed House passage of H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act. This landmark legislation gives Medicare the power to negotiate directly with drug companies and extends those lower prices to Americans with private ... -
The Danger of the “Ethno-Nationalist” State
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. One of the most common features of right-wing populist and fascist movements is the demand for ethnic and/or racial purity. During the course of the 20th century we saw it in its most egregious forms in colonial and white minority regimes in the global South, and in the Nazi-led persecution and, ... -
Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Announces Cancer Diagnosis
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire “I am going to fight it,” read a statement from Rep. John Lewis on the evening of December 29. “I may miss a few votes during this period, but with God’s grace I will be back on the front lines soon,” he added. Lewis announced on the last week ... -
Annual Founder’s Kwanzaa Message
“Living Kwanzaa and the Seven Principles An All-Seasons Celebration and Practice of the Good” By Dr. Maulana Karenga Each year Kwanzaa provides us with a special and unique time to see and celebrate ourselves as African people in beautiful, uplifting and liberating ways. But it also offers us a set of principles which, if practiced ...