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Rent Relief, People’s Power and Fix-It Help
By Dianne Anderson For low-income renters barely surviving on fixed incomes, just a few hundred dollars can mean the difference between staying housed and becoming homeless. ... -
Michelle Obama Library Celebrates 10th Anniversary
The Long Beach Public Library invites the community to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library located at 5870 Atlantic Ave., with a ... -
New Work Requirements Put Food Aid at Risk
By Roxsy Lin It’s Wednesday morning and a line of cars stretches around a local food bank, one of several in Riverside. The lines have grown ... -
John Hoover Coleman, The Man Behind the Camera
By Dianne Anderson Across the Inland Empire, John Hoover Coleman could be found almost any day of the week, and at most important events, with his ... -
Resource Fair Gets Ahead of the Next Overdose
By Dianne Anderson Conversations around fentanyl overdose usually start after the crisis, or after death, when there’s nothing left to prevent. In 2024 alone, nearly 48,000 ... -
CSULB: Gift Gives Foster Youth Place to Call Home
By Andrew Edwards Diego De La Cruz found belonging at Cal State Long Beach. The aspiring special ed teacher, a fourth-year liberal studies major, felt at home ... -
LDF: Investigate Suspicious Deaths of Black People
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted letters to Congress and to the United Nations urging officials to take immediate action to examine the growing number of suspicious deaths of Black people in the United States and potential racial bias in the failure to conduct ... -
$1.2M to Expand Affordable Housing in Fontana
The funding will help address affordable housing shortages in the City of Fontana and give more low-income Fontana residents pathways to permanent housing Rep. Pete Aguilar ... -
CA Black Caucus Elects New Leaders
By Bo Tefu and Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media The California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) has announced that Assemblymember Corey Jackson (D-Moreno Valley) was elected ... -
Rising Health Costs Are Forcing Americans to Forego Care
By Sunita Sohrabji Susan Alleman thought surviving breast cancer would mean putting the hardest chapter of her life behind her. But it was just the beginning ...
