By Dianne Anderson Under Keith Brockie at Arroyo Valley High School, the student becomes the teacher, and vice versa. One of the best aspects of teaching at San Bernardino Unified School District has been watching students that he has taught grow successful in their fields, and return as teachers. “Now they’re on campus working as ...

By Aldon Thomas Stiles California Black Media Officials in Sacramento and Washington frequently point to the low unemployment rate in the state and around the country as proof that the U.S. economy has recovered from the downturn experienced during the global COVID-19 crisis. But the total unemployment rate for Black Californians seems stuck at almost ...

Leaders from the San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) and the Linked Learning Alliance joined elected officials and industry partners in congratulating three educational pathways for achieving Linked Learning Gold certification. The pathways—the Digital Media Arts Academy and the Business and Logistics Academy at Arroyo Valley High School and the Digital Design and Communications ...

By Dianne Anderson Back-to-back disasters with COVID-19, the economy, the cost of housing are all closely connected to a bigger conversation that hasn’t stopped at Clay Counseling Solutions – the deep rooted systemic racial inequality that prevents access to services. Even as the equity issue is evolving in some circles, Dr. April Clay said mental ...

By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media A day after the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans decided who would be eligible for compensation, the nine-member panel approved a framework for calculating how much should be paid — and for which offenses — to individuals who are Black descendants of ...

By Isadore Hall Special to California Black Media Partners Last spring, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first new Alzheimer’s disease therapy since 2003. For the six million-plus people living with the fatal disease in the United States, the availability of a medicine designed to treat the underlying cause of their ailment was ...

By Dianne Anderson In coming to San Bernardino with her Ph.D. in hand in the early 1980s, Dr. Mildred Dalton Hampton-Henry held the beginnings of a novel idea. What if she could reach underserved kids and teens, and show them what it means to be successful – all at a time when local high school ...

By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media After a first vote failed, the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans decided that lineage will determine who will be eligible for reparations. During the first session of the eighth, two-day meeting, five members of the task force voted in favor of ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent The Food and Drug Administration has granted permission for a second COVID-19 booster shot – a fourth for those already receiving the additional dose. The authorization is for individuals 50 and older, which health officials said would provide extra protection for the most vulnerable population if ...

By Dianne Anderson Thousands of struggling renters and homeowners are now in a mad rush to get their applications in the queue to keep a roof over their heads. There is no time to waste. March 31 is the hard deadline. Some renters are behind by several thousands of dollars, and many are up against ...