By Dianne Anderson If a colonoscopy is not high on the to-do list, anyone can do a five-minute test privately at home to submit back to medical providers, or buy simple at-home tests sold at most big chain stores to get results almost instantly. Health providers are telling people to get over their fear of ...

By Dianne Anderson Issues of mental health and transformative justice connected community and professionals recently around staying engaged, and keeping calm despite life’s innumerable stressors. With her three decades serving in areas of Black health, Ernesta Wright said their last virtual town hall is one of several collaborative efforts looking at how to restore balance ...

Unique Program is in its 17th Year The San Bernardino City Unified School District’s (SBCUSD) Positive Youth Development department hosted a successful Operation Student Recovery on Wednesday, August 23, visiting the homes of 409 students who have not attended school since the start of the new school year on July 31. Operation Student Recovery (OSR) is designed ...

By Dianne Anderson It’s no secret that the Black community has been analyzed, researched and studied to the hilt for decades with not a lot of action or headway made. But $13.5 million is set to open doors for 37 grantees in 27 California counties to prioritize the most pressing problems identified by the community ...

By Dianne Anderson Black parents and students are invited to jump into the collegiate mix and learn how to scale all those tall walls facing first generation college-goers. About the only big restriction for students is the one thing that almost everyone in the underserved community easily qualifies for. They must be low-income and the ...

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, and the homeless have all done it by hand. It’s how he goes about his daily rounds at local parks, enticing the unhoused to help keep their areas clean by giving ...

Sisterhood in the Workplace: Supporting Black and Latina Women beyond Women’s History Month To support Black and Hispanic women in the workplace, we must understand the unique challenges they face and advance solutions. Young Black and Latinas girls are more likely to identify as leaders than girls of other races. However, when they grow up, ...

By Dianne Anderson At just eight years old, Jeremiah Jones decided to take a hard look at his life’s direction, and change his ways. Until then, he had been involved with different sports and activities at the encouragement of his father, but he never could quite find his passion. He had another calling. By age ...

By Dianne Anderson Pastor Ivan Pitts likes to put the money where his heart is. Over the past two years, he has given hundreds of thousands in the church’s tithes to support local programs, giving thanks to the organizations that do good work in service to the community. In the midst of COVID, the church ...

By Dianne Anderson Spoken like a true engineer, Robin Thorne explains how her nonprofit outreach operates in ways that other like-minded engineers can appreciate. “How would I describe it? Demo Chicks are more of a conduit,” said Robin Thorne, founder and CEO of CTI Environmental, Inc. in Long Beach. “What we like to do is ...