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What’s Going On With This Gender-Care Matter?
The Southern Truth By Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-ChiefFounder & CEO, Parent Action Coalition for Education (PACE) “Secretary Kennedy cannot unilaterally change medical standards by posting a document online. And no one should lose access to medically necessary health care because their federal government tried to interfere in decisions that belong in doctors’ offices.” — Letitia James,…
Read MoreThe Southern Truth: My Time with Hardtime — Alvincent Brunt
THE SOUTHERN TRUTH By Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief, PACE NEWS I was still Gloria Walker when Hardtime lived across the street. We called it Hudson Street, though in truth it was Hudson Lane—no pavement, no blacktop, just a gravel road scattered with rocks and filled with children from sunup to sundown. That road was our playground,…
Read MoreBankFirst Financial Services Under Scrutiny After $42,000 Removed From Disabled Veteran During Merger
THE SOUTHERN TRUTH By Dr. Gloria ZuurveenEditor-in-Chief, PACE NEWS Coldwater, Mississippi—There is something deeply wrong when a bank that began in 1888 with just $20,000 in capital can grow—through decades of trust, pledges, and community faith—into a $2.7 billion financial institution, yet in 2025 allows more than $42,000 to be removed from the account of…
Read MoreWater Is Not Optional: Why Inglewood’s Utility Rates Are Rising—and What the Law Requires
THE SOUTHERN TRUTH Hard News | Public Utilities | Civic Education By Dr. Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief, PACE NEWS INGLEWOOD—When water rates increase, the first question residents ask is why. The second is who caused it. And the third—often unspoken—is do we have a choice?The answer to the last question is simple and sobering: no. On…
Read MoreThe Southern Truth Quiet Leadership, National Impact: How Bettye Griffith’s Work Changed Inglewood—and the Nation
By Dr. Gloria Zuurveen Publisher & Editor-in-Chief INGLEWOOD — Sometimes the most powerful leaders are not the loudest voices at the podium, but the steady hands working faithfully in the background—changing lives one home, one family, one neighborhood at a time. That is the Southern Truth embodied in Bettye Griffith, Director of the City of…
Read MoreInglewood 4th District Councilwoman Dionne Faulk Invites the Community the 4th Annual Snowy Winter Wonderland
Inglewood Lights the Sky: A Magical Night at the Kia Forum
The Southern Truth By Dr. Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief INGLEWOOD—Inglewood Showed Up and Showed Out Under crisp December skies, the annual City of Champions Christmas Tree Lighting at the world-famous Kia Forum became a living celebration of music, culture, family, and community pride. Thousands of residents—from toddlers to teens to elders—gathered with joy, anticipation, and unity…
Read MoreIsaiah Washington Takes Us On His Journey In His Full Documentary: Passport To Sierra Leone
The Southern Truth By Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief “I now self-identify as a Black American Negro Freedmen and a Sierra Leonean American with citizenship with Sierra Leone solely based on my mitochondrial DNA on my mother’s side, and I am waiting for my full citizenship from Angola now, also based on my mitochondrial DNA on my…
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