$980 savings for health care coverage and $200 for prescription drugs  Rep. Pete Aguilar announced that families in the Inland Empire will soon see more affordable prescription drugs and lower health insurance premiums because of key provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act: extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits and allowing Medicare to negotiate directly ...

By Dianne Anderson Straight to the point with no mess around, Carl Clemons was a trailblazer that lived through nearly a century of San Bernardino before and during its so-called glory days. He loved his community, but he also navigated thick de facto segregation that permeated every area of his daily life, from jobs to ...

By Dianne Anderson How to buy groceries, gas, and – for those who still have a home – keep the air conditioning on during the two-month scorching heatwave, are among the root causes of mental illness for the hard-hit low-income Black and Brown community. It’s getting on people’s nerves. Health Advocate Linda Hart sees a ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent Black youth are far more likely to be arrested than their white peers and far less likely to be diverted from court following arrest. According to new Sentencing Project research, diverting youth from juvenile court involvement should be a central focus in reducing racial and ethnic ...

By McKenzie Jackson California Black Media One hundred and ten African Americans died or suffered serious bodily injury during encounters with law enforcement officers in the Golden State over the course of the last year. Blacks made up 16.7 % of the civilians that were killed or suffered severe injury injured during incidents involving the ...

By Antonio‌ ‌Ray‌ ‌Harvey ‌California‌ ‌Black‌ ‌Media‌ California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta is urging Californians to take advantage of recent changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF) programs. Bonta’s announcement coincides with a CNBC survey that reports 31% of Black women are disproportionately impacted by ...

By Manny Otiko California Black Media After Brandon N. Smith was imprisoned for the ninth time, he found himself at a crossroads. That’s when he learned about the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) conservation campfire crews, which allows inmates to train as firefighters. Smith initially joined the program to get out of his ...

By Ben Jealous When Charles Diggs, Jr., won election to Congress in Michigan’s 13th District in 1954, he launched nearly seven decades in which the city of Detroit had at least one Black member of Congress. That’s likely to change this year. Because of redistricting, Detroit no longer has majority-Black congressional districts. And in the first primary ...

By Dianne Anderson It’s hard to tell just how many thousands of Black students that Clyde Williams ushered on toward higher education at San Bernardino Valley College in over four decades in outreach and recruitment at the campus. Shalita Tillman arrived there back in 2000 and remembers walking down the hallway as a new employee, ...

The San Bernardino City Council has awarded a construction contract to extend State Street from 16th Street to Baseline Street, a project that has been envisioned to improve mobility for over 20 years. The contract, awarded on August 17th to Riverside Construction Company of Riverside, in the amount of $7,436,165, will construct a new four ...