By the late 1970s, drug traffickers were shipping so much cocaine to the United States that the street price of the powdered stimulant dealers cooked to...
When he’s not studying, Aldon Thomas Stiles, 25, a senior at Cal State Bernardino, writes freelance articles to help pay his way through college and assist...
About two years ago, Calvin Dubois, executive director of First Step Group Homes (FSGH) in San Bernardino County, says he made the right call when he...
When California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced the English language arts and math results of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP)...
The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council and the San Francisco Public Library’s African American Center are presenting the exhibition “Same Game, Different Smokers” beginning Saturday...
As states and communities rush to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products linked to vaping, Carol McGruder races from town to town, urging officials to...
Just 24 hours after sitting on a panel in front of 5,000 Black techies at the annual AfroTech gathering at the Oakland Convention Center, Bernard Tyson,...
African-American leaders across the country — and around California — are pulling out all the stops this time. They say Blacks can not afford to be...
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed Assembly Bill 539, putting restrictions on predatory lending practices in California that he says “create debt traps for families already struggling...
In countries like Nigeria and Haiti, electricity blackouts are routine. Power outages sometimes last for more than a week in Haiti, where only about 25 percent...
Among the bills Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law last week was one that supported charter schools owned and operated by Black people and one that...
In 2009, former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon slapped the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the Collegiate Licensing Company and video game maker Electronic Arts Sports...
“We built these ships, we dredged these canals in a San Francisco they never knew existed,” said African-American actor Jimmy Fails in the trailer of the...
SACRAMENTO OBSERVER — Diane Shelton was proud of her professional life. For more than 25 years, she held steady government jobs with the state Assembly as...
OAKLAND POST — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $214.8 billion state spending plan last week that he and legislative leaders are calling “the Affordability Budget” for the...
OAKLAND POST — Only four percent of California’s African American voters are registered as Republicans, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. The majority, about...
Only four percent of California’s African American voters are registered as Republicans, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. The majority, about 77 percent, are...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — California isn’t playing around in its effort to avoid an undercount in the 2020 Census. That determination was clear April 2 when the...
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a “common sense” charter school transparency bill on March 5, striking agreement among a rare coalition of education reform advocates, labor leaders...