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NWWNC Votes To Rename Le Conte Avenue, Citing Namesake’s Racist Past
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Robert Johnson’s Big Idea: $14 trillion in slavery reparations to African-Americans
By Marisa Schultz | Fox News Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, says it’s time America atones for slavery and systemic racism by paying African-Americans reparations to make them economically equal to white Americans. Johnson, the first black billionaire in the United States, has put a price tag on the debt America owes to African-Americans at $14 trillion.
Read MoreLetter to Patrick Soon-Shiong from the L.A. Times Guild’s Black Caucus
As a union, it is our responsibility to be a force for progress, and we cannot build the future we want for the Los Angeles Times until we clearly see its past. Over the last two weeks, Black former Times journalists have come forward with stories of racist treatment, marginalization and neglect in our newsroom…
Read MoreToday the California Assembly voted to pass ACA 5
By CBM Staff Today the California State Assembly voted to pass ACA 5. The bill authored by Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus, sponsored the bill. This could allow Californians to vote on Affirmative action in the November 2020 general election. The ballot measure that could overturn Proposition 209…
Read MoreThere’s No Way Around It, California. You Owe Descendants of Enslaved Black Americans
Hardy Brown | Founder, California Black Media Special to California Black Media Partners Last year, I read a book titled “The Color of Law.” Every Californian should read it, too — especially if you truly care about Black lives. “A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,” the book subtitle reads. It is…
Read MoreRepeal Prop 209 If Black Lives Really Matter in California
By Gloria Zuurveen Editor-in-Chief The passage of Prop 209 has hurt the black community more than any racial group in California since 1996 but it’s beginning was 1995 from public policies built from the minds of the political establishment at the time under the governor Pete Wilson, while Dr. Weber address the atrocities of her…
Read MoreLeimert Park (Los Angeles, California) Justice Rally and March Held in Honor of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor
BY JESSE B. JOHNSON, JR. It was gratifying to participate in the rally and peace march on Saturday, June 6, 2020 held in the Leimert Park area of Los Angeles, California in support of justice and equality, and to decry the senseless murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Breonna Taylor…
Read MoreRobert 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…
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