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Higher Health Costs if Rescue Plan Expires
An updated Covered California analysis highlights how the expiration of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) would raise costs for enrollees, including doubling premiums on ... -
Same Game, Different Smokers: Tobacco Targets Blacks
By Dianne Anderson Smart smiling smokers plastered across billboards and television ads in those extra cool vintage days of old have now given way ... -
1972 All-Star Team Gets 50th Anniversary Recognition
What was more than 10 years in the making culminated with a three-day celebration recognizing and honoring a group of men for what they ... -
Movement Concerns: Air Quality and Logistics
By Dianne Anderson Warehouses, often synonymous with pollution, are cropping up everywhere, wearing down impacted communities with a nonstop dirty logistics movement of goods ... -
Care Closet LBC: Where Trash is Treasure
By Dianne Anderson Duke Givens is talking trash again. So far, he’s collected close to 800,000 pounds of trash in the past two years, ... -
New 988 Hotline for Mental Health
By Dianne Anderson Provided that the community and grassroots organizations know that it exists, the new 988 hotline – similar to 911 – goes ... -
Black Women’s Double Student Debt Whammy
By Charlene Crowell Twice as Likely to Owe More Than $50K, Have Decreased Savings In mid-June the Federal Reserve, nation’s central bank, raised interest ... -
Renter Homelessness, Providers Brace for Worst
By Dianne Anderson Renter protections ended last Thursday in California, leaving community advocates worried that if it’s not already on the radar of local ... -
“Inflation Relief” Checks of Up to $1050
Gov. Signs $308 Billion Budget: By Edward Henderson California Black Media Around 23 million California residents will receive “inflation relief” checks of up to ... -
Riverside Parks Grant Supports Underserved Communities
Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District (RivCoParks) was awarded grant funding from the California Department of Parks and Recreation Outdoor Equity Program. The ...
