By Antonio Ray Harvey and Manny Otiko California Black Media This past weekend, the Mississippi Legislature approved the removal of the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. It’s a sign of the times, historians say, that speaks to the turning spirit of the nation – even happening in a state that has remained a proud stronghold, clinging to enduring customs that nod to a romanticized version of the “Old South.” Gov. Tate Reeves said he will sign the bill into law. The deep south state ...

By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. Today, Americans are facing unprecedented times. We are in the midst of a global pandemic, our country has fallen into an economic recession, and hundreds of thousands are protesting police brutality and racial injustice. But there is another epidemic in this country that must be addressed, and it must ...

Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser has ordered all bars in Riverside County closed to help slow the spread of coronavirus, which has seen a recent upswing in confirmed cases. The order, which is effective Tuesday (June 30), comes on the heels of a recommendation from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who suggested Sunday that Riverside and ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent As more corporations jump into the fray, offering statements of support for African Americans in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, a new study reveals that many companies’ actual policies and practices contradict their public statements. With just a small ...

By Allyson Y. Schwartz and Martha A. Dawson News about the novel coronavirus, which has now claimed over 100,000 American lives, is all around us. A subtext told in this reporting is the painful story of the pandemic’s devastating effect on people of color. While coronavirus does not know boundaries of race, income, or ethnicity, its disproportionate ...

By Dianne Anderson Retirement this month is a little bit bittersweet for Patricia Daniels Perry as she steps away from her lifelong love of teaching. “I’m extremely excited, I’m happy-sad. It’s been 45 years,” said Ms. Daniels, who has served 32 years with San Bernardino City Unified School District. Perry has influenced countless thousands of ...

Ebone Monet and Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media  Author and investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a staunch crusader against lynching at the turn of the last century, would probably be deeply concerned about the recent hanging deaths of two Black men in California and another in New York.  Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March ...

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Judiciary Committee discussed the Justice In Policing Act of 2020 in a wide ranging discussion with the National Newspaper Publishers Association–Black Press of America late Wednesday June 17. This is a fact sheet of the bill at the time of the hearing, but it may change in ...

By Dianne Anderson Since the massive protests started just weeks ago, cameras have not stopped rolling on too many incidents to count of peaceful protestors and news reporters getting arrested, gassed, tased, and shot with rubber bullets. An elderly white man was shoved down by police, left bleeding on the ground, and then walked over ...

By Dianne Anderson Most dialogue around police, misconduct and unjust practices are fighting words right now, and Ryan Tillman knows it all too well. On the force now almost seven years, he joined the profession for altruistic reasons, because there is bad in the world, and he wanted to be the one to help stop ...