By Timothy Lewis Jessie M. Turner was a Fontana community activist, whose work during the late 1960’s to the 1980’s forever transformed the predominantly Black, north side of the city of Fontana. Born in New Orleans in 1917, Jessie Turner moved to Fontana in 1965. Within her time in California, Turner provided safe spaces for ...

Rep. Pete Aguilar introduced the Affordable Housing Resident Services Act, legislation that secures funding for affordable housing properties to provide supportive services for their residents. “The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the lack of supportive services for low-income families in affordable housing,” Rep. Aguilar said. “While the federal government continues to invest in building ...

By Dianne Anderson Students at Cal State San Bernardino will get a chance to witness a big piece of history this Black History Month as the campus virtually welcomes this year’s keynote speaker, the award-winning author and daughter of Malcolm X. Charles Gaylord, co-coordinator of the Black History Month events, said they are fortunate to ...

Mrs. Willie Moses moved to Perris Valley in 1957 and hit the ground running—Taking on leadership roles in a variety of organizations that initiated infrastructure improvements, including installing roads, water and natural gas; and construction of an elementary school, community center, and fire station in the rural area of Good Hope, where she resides. Mrs. ...

By Rev Reginald Woods Special to California Black Media Partners We are nearly two years into this pandemic. Many of us will remember where we were, two years ago, when we first heard of COVID-19, when we first realized that our lives were going to change. Things in San Bernardino have improved since those tumultuous ...

By Dianne Anderson Most doors were shut tight when Dr. Lulamae Clemons and Jennifer Vaughn-Blakely first started their activism, but it never stopped the two iconic leaders from many decades of paving the way for social change. Dr. Lulamae Clemons and Ms. Vaughn Blakely, will be remembered – if not unmatched – in future generations. ...

Dr. Jennifer Brown has been appointed Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost of Cal Poly Pomona effective April 1. In that role, she will be the university’s chief academic officer, with responsibility for the institution’s academic programs, resources and planning. The deans of the eight academic colleges report to the provost as do the ...

By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media Gov. Gavin Newsom says his administration is emphasizing combating drug addiction and mental illness as part of the state’s multi-year plan to solve California’s homelessness crisis – the worst in the country. Newsom says focusing on those health needs of unhoused people is a component of his ongoing ...

By Timothy Lewis Vice President Kamala Harris came to San Bernardino in an effort to promote the Biden administration’s new infrastructure bill made in the hopes of battling the recent wildfires that have plagued the western part of our nation. Vice President Harris, accompanied by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, took to the air to ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent With President Joe Biden’s tanking approval rating and the failure by Democrats to push through vital legislation, political preferences in the United States have taken a shift. A new Gallup poll released on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day revealed that Americans’ political party preferences dramatically ...