By Dianne Anderson After paying rent, keeping food in the fridge and micro-budgeting, next comes the soaring utility bills after endless days of scorching heat. By then, school shopping is usually the last thing on the list. For families fortunate enough to have a home, even smaller supplies and a few new clothes can be ...

By Dianne Anderson Empowerment to the people is energizing block parties, family and friend reunions, packing community fairs with flair. It all means that Juneteenth is in full swing. Performers on stages are set to show out, food trucks are filled with good eats, and never forget the time-honored cultural traditions. Vickie Davis said Juneteenth ...

Frank Alvarez, Director of Partnership Development at YouthBuild Charter School of California; Dee Goins, Chairperson at the YouthBuild Collaborative of Southern California, and Benedito (Benny) Orduño, Co-Executive Director at Rising Stars Business Academy and Moreno Valley YouthBuild have completed the 2024–2026 YouthBuild Leadership Fellowship, a two-year international leadership initiative developed and hosted by YouthBuild Global, ...

By Dianne Anderson Voters heading into the June 2 Primary may be more motivated this time around to take an extra ten minutes to fill in the bubbles, sign their names, and worst-case scenario, to lick, seal, and hand that ballot envelope to the mailman. They aren’t so much energized as they are wired up ...

By Dianne Anderson Voters are ready to grab their ballots off the kitchen countertops hidden under the stack of bills, mail them in, drive them in, or walk them into their polling places. If they’re not, they should be. Their local candidates answer to the people. With the Primary a few weeks away, contenders for ...

By Dianne Anderson Growing up in a life of crime where feast or famine is the heart of the streets, Terrance Stone developed one of the strongest survival skills known to business owners everywhere, he learned to pivot. If one thing didn’t work, try another, then another. In the early days, he was inspired to ...

By Dianne Anderson Racists in high places may be loud and obnoxious, stirring up fear and bigotry everywhere, but local organizers are fighting back harder and smarter, fixing the system from the inside out. Coming up, the 6th Annual Inland Empire Antiracist Summit keeps the regional push on anti-racist action with Assemblymember Dr. Corey Jackson ...

The inaugural IE State of Women Summit, presented by the National Council of Negro Women Inland Empire Section (NCNWIE), was held Saturday, March 7, at San Bernardino Valley College’s Lois Carson Center, bringing together women from across the Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, and surrounding communities for a day of inspiration, dialogue, and collaboration. The Summit welcomed a ...

By Dianne Anderson Year after year, Juneteenth is all about live performances, interactive art, youth programming, nonstop good eats, the community coming together, and the laughs. It’s all about the fun – almost all. Mostly, it’s about national celebrations with an undeniable undercurrent of commitment to never forget one of the most oppressive, inhumane, times ...

by Dianne Anderson Not so long ago, the best medical recommendation was that all men start screening for prostate cancer starting at age 50 – which is great for some men, but for Black men, it would be way too late. By then, their prostate cancer would be at an advanced stage, or worse. For ...