By Dianne Anderson From mental-health struggles, rising overdoses, chronic disease and barriers to basic health care, some communities are taking the hit from all sides, but local leaders are looking to build up a new generation of public and community-health workers. They’ll meet residents where the healthcare system falls short. For students who may not ...

By Dianne Anderson From the very young to the very old, Long Beach is calling on community to look around, get connected, be encouraged and discover creative ways to change the city for the better. Over the weekend, the Neighbor to Neighbor program officially kicked off resources to develop and inspire several sustainability and environmental ...

Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes released the following statement: The California State Assembly and Senate both approved AB 98, providing common sense standards and guardrails for new warehouses being built in California. This is an issue that is felt acutely in the Inland Empire where we are home to well over 1 billion square feet of ...

By Elizabeth Wells, UC Health For Omar Morales-Haro, pursuing a public health degree while training to be a doctor just made sense. “When we’re in the business of helping people improve their health, we should be taking a step back and evaluating the systems in which we practice,” he said. Omar just graduated from UC Irvine ...

By Daniella Masterson Structural racism is not dissimilar to systematic racism except now it has been validated, or elevated, as a health crisis.  In a bold and innovative move, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has adopted a progressive Countywide Racial Equity Strategic Plan with five goals intended to improve the lives of residents ...

CA Reparations Task Force By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media Dr. Carolyn Roberts, a professor at Yale University, provided to the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans detailed descriptions, both verbal and visual, of the horrific experiences Africans endured during the transatlantic slave trade. A historian of medicine ...

By Aldon Thomas Stiles California Black Media On Tuesday, Feb. 15, the statewide indoor mask mandate for vaccinated Californians expired. As COVID-19 cases decline, public health officials say the state is easing restrictions in an effort to return the state to pre-pandemic normalcy. “Omicron has loosened its hold on California, vaccines for children under 5 ...

by Gov. Gavin Newsom Special to California Black Media Partners Since the early days of the pandemic, California has led the nation’s fight against COVID-19 through robust vaccination efforts rooted in science and data. This has helped slow the spread of the virus and save countless lives, especially in our most vulnerable communities – someone’s ...

by Dianne Anderson Flu season isn’t technically here yet, but already COVID-19 Delta cases top the charts at nearly three times as bad as this time last year. Facts are facts, and data from the latest surge of the highly contagious variant is hard to ignore, even as die-hard anti-vaxxers are filling up hospitals nationwide. ...

More than $200 million for economic recovery, public health and fiscal stability initiatives critically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic The City of Long Beach unveiled the Proposed Long Beach Recovery Act. The $207 million proposal focuses on various economic, fiscal and public health priorities that promote inclusive, effective and prosperous economic and social recovery for Long ...