By Dianne Anderson Kids everywhere have two big things on their minds this time of year — getting out of school for two whole months, and hitting the streets hard. Local programs have equal and opposite concerns – how to keep the kids techy productive, and smartly out of trouble. Arrowhead United Way is way ...

By Congresswoman Karen Bass In the late 1980s and early 1990s, our community was under a full-fledged attack. Crack was in our streets, it was in our schools, it was in our parks, it was in our playgrounds, and for some, it was in our homes. The epidemic wasn’t just affecting one part of the ...

By Julianne Malveaux Marvel’s “Black Panther,” Chadwick Boseman, graduated from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (BFA) in 2000. On May 12, Boseman returned to his alma mater to address the Class of 2018, while receiving an honorary degree. The Howard University graduation is one of more than 100 Historically Black College ...

Getting around town will be a little cheaper for area youth this summer, thanks to a discounted fare on Omnitrans buses.  Riders 18 and under will pay just $1 per trip June 1 through July 31. Youth have a choice of paying cash on board or paying by phone using the new Omnitrans mobile app. ...

San Bernardino Valley College student Devonte Kilgore admits he had doubts along the way about what it takes to get through college life, but one thing he didn’t want to be was another statistic – unless he was actually studying statistics. If not for Guardian Scholars Foster Youth Services and several dedicated counselors who guided him ...

Jay Benjamin Kitchen, former Sports and Entertainment Writer for the Precinct Reporter passed away on Friday, May 11.  He was 50 years old. Jay lived most of his life in Colton and graduated from Colton High School. He was a soccer referee with organizations IESRA and Colton AYSO.  He coached both his children’s soccer teams ...

By Dianne Anderson To get into the heads of the Z Generation, today’s most challenged teens, requires more than a one size fits all approach. It takes a lot of style, something that Sigma Beta Xi has more than enough to go around. Programming got off the ground six years ago, and since then students ...

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) today issued an urgent national call for support for all people, who are being impacted by the devastating flood waters from Hurricane Harvey in Texas, especially now in Houston. In addition to the many thousands of Texas and other Gulf area residents living in uncertainty and crisis as a ...

“In|Dignity,” a new curatorial project that aims to provide a safe environment for exploring and exploding intolerance that will go on display at Cal State San Bernardino’s Museum of Anthropology in January, has received a $20,000 grant. The Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political and Economic Institute at Cal State Dominguez Hills announced the grant award in late July ...

A new mental health urgent care center has opened in Perris and its doors will remain open around the clock to offer voluntary mental health support to people in crisis. Riverside University Health System—Behavioral Health has engaged the Telecare Perris-Mental Health Urgent Program to provide the community-based mental health and recovery services. Steve Steinberg, director ...