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 ...

By Dianne Anderson Local Black artists, creative minds, small businesses and intelligentsia will converge on several venues this month for laughs or tears of fury for deep contemplations over modern machinations. Moori Richardson said that his event Moor Laughs with Moori is a family roots play on words and names for their historical ties to ...

Vote Through Tuesday Nov. 5 By Dianne Anderson In the last stretch of the race, Black candidates are thinking ahead to tackle the issues that they’re hearing loud and clear on the street, which sometimes comes knocking at the front door. MARLA MATIME – RUSD Trustee Area 4 For Marla Matime, a lot of what ...

By Dianne Anderson Hate crime reporting could be lagging because some people do not trust the government, or some may be afraid of calling the police for fear of getting shot, yet others may not report because they do not know where to call. From what Dr. Regina Patton Stell can see, none of those issues are ...