Avoid Wildfire-Related Sicknesses: Check Air Quality to Protect Your Health
By Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media This year’s wildfire season has already been out of the ordinary. About 3.3 million acres have burned across vast tracts of California, Oregon and Washington. The areas surrounding those places have also been affected by dangerous levels of smoke over the last few weeks. Although the skies in the Bay Area are no longer orange and the air quality has improved, wildfire season is not over. Therefore, officials are advising people…
Read MorePolice Group Places Gun Target on Image of Black Elected Official
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media America is still healing from several violent murders of unarmed Black men and women at the hands of law enforcement officers across the country. But that climate in the country, volatile and fraught with distrust and disagreement, did not stop members of the California Correctional Peace Officer…
Read MoreCalifornia State Bar Shaken by Personnel Issues Involving Two Black Women
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media In less than one month, the State Bar of California has been roiled in high-level personnel snafus involving two prominent Black California women. In July, the California State Bar offered Fredericka McGee, a respected California legislative attorney, the position of executive director. Then, in August, the organization…
Read MoreChairman Omali Yeshitela at Oxford Union: The Africa Debate
Trump Orders Govt. Agencies To End Anti-Racism Training Sessions
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Read MoreAfter Shooting Death of Demetrius Robinson, a Memphis, Tennessee Rising High School Football Star, Community Ask, “Where Are the Politicians”
Area football coaches hold up flyers seeking information about the killing of Demetrius Robinson on Monday, Sept. 7, 2020, in the parking lot of a Marathon gas station in the 3800 block of Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis.Max Gersh Max Gersh writing for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis reported that about a dozen Memphis-area football coaches…
Read MoreLegislature Passes Bill That Would Allow Inmate Firefighters to Continue in Profession When Released
Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media Inmate firefighting crews, made up of more than 2,000 inmate firefighters per year, have helped extinguish many of the biggest wildfires in California. However, once they’re released, they cannot serve in that profession under current law because of their criminal records. Now, AB 2147, a law that would lift that restriction, has…
Read MoreAwareness Push to Restore Voting Rights for California’s Parolees Kicks Off
By Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media “Yes On Prop 17” recently kicked off its Official Proposition 17 Campaign Virtual Kick-Off on Facebook Live. The event featured testimony from previously incarcerated persons on why more than 50,000 parolees in California deserve the right to vote. Prop 17, which passed the state legislature as ACA 6 in June, is a measure on the…
Read MoreGov. Signs Bill Allowing Producers, Writers, Musicians and More to Remain Freelancers
By Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media After months of uproar, harsh criticisms and biting commentary from advocates representing various industries, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 2257 into law on Sept. 4. The legislation is an AB 5 amendment bill, and it will go into effect immediately. AB 2257 builds on the controversial worker misclassification…
Read MoreBlack Man Killed By 2 L A County Sheriff Deputies for Riding a Bike in South Los Angeles
Los Angeles — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was investigating the fatal shooting of a Black man by two deputies Monday afternoon. In a statement, Deputy Juanita Navarro-Suarez said detectives responded at 3:16 p.m. to the 1200 block of West 109th Place, unincorporated Los Angeles, to investigate the shooting. The department said on its…
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