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Robert L. Johnson, Founder Of Black Entertainment Television And The RLJ Companies, Issues Statement And Proposal For Full Black American Reparations
Johnson Calls For $14 Trillion In Reparations – Not Just To Atone For Past Sins, But To Cause This Nation To Live Up To What Was Once Called American Exceptionalism BETHESDA, Md., June 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Is $14 trillion too much to ask for the atonement of 200 plus years of brutal…
Read MoreA VIRTUAL TOWN HALL
Please Join Us for A VIRTUAL TOWN HALL A Panel Discussion to Begin The Conversation on What We Can Do to Combat Systemic Racism A Virtual Town Hall Moderated by: The Honorable Malia M. Cohen, California State Board of Equalization Thursday, June 4, 2020, 6:00 pm PST CLICK HERE to register
Read MoreThe Executive Leadership Council Statement on Racial Injustice and Disparities Facing the Black Community
WASHINGTON/PRNewswire/ –– The Executive Leadership Council issues the following statement in response to recent events fatally impacting the Black community. Racism, in any form, is unacceptable to The Executive Leadership Council (ELC). The ELC unequivocally denounces all criminal and racist acts of violence against our people. George Floyd is senselessly murdered by four white Minnesota…
Read MoreListen To Tupac, a Legend, with Solutions before the Revolution
Tupac speaks on the system of greed in America and how it should not exist in a world of vast riches, especially America and people like the president, Donald Trump and others, who are humanitarians with wealth untold and yet people are lying homeless and destitute in the streets.
Read MoreCalifornia After COVID – Recovery is Not Good Enough
By Senator Steven Bradford, Special to CalMatters and California Black Media Partners The coronavirus crisis is testing most households and businesses in California, pushing some to the very brink of what they can bear before falling off a cliff. But for some, clinging to the edge is nothing new. If you are Black or…
Read MoreNew Rule Could Deny Black Developers Access to $4 Billion-Plus in State Housing Funds
Ebone Monet | California Black Media African American developers across California are worried about a rule change the state Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is considering. The regulation proposes a new requirement that developers have more experience before becoming eligible for contracts awarded from a $4 billion fund set up to…
Read MoreRegina Wilson is On the Move Advocating and Fighting for the Black Press
By Gloria Zuurveen Editor-in-Chief PACE NEWS, the Los Angeles Sentinel, Our Weekly, Inglewood Today and many other Black media owners in Southern and Northern California have one thing in common and its Regina Wilson, Executive Director, California Black Media (CBM) who spends countless hours advocating for all of them when it…
Read MoreCIT Provides $37M Investment for L.A.’s Jordan Downs Redev
CIT and its Pasadena-based banking subsidiary CIT Bank, N.A., made a $37.3 million investment in the Jordan Downs Apartments Project, a 92-unit multifamily apartment complex, to support low-to-moderate income families in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Jordan Downs is the third phase of a larger redevelopment project taking place to improve the area.
Read MoreTrump says he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine despite safety concerns
Trump says he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine despite safety concerns BY BRETT SAMUELS © Getty Images President Trump on Monday revealed he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, a controversial drug that he’s championed as a potential treatment for coronavirus despite limited evidence from the medical community. The president said he consulted with the White House doctor about taking the drug, but it was not explicitly recommended for…
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