Health
Planning for the Worst: Black Californians Among Groups State Is Targeting for Emergency Preparedness
By Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media Black Americans were already in the midst of two disasters this year – the disproportionate toll of the COVID-19 pandemic and a spate of horrifying incidents of police brutality — when fire season in California started early. Wildfires have burned over 3.1 million acres in California since the beginning of the year, breaking the record for the deadliest year of wildfires…
Read More“A Beautiful Pregnancy Overall”: BOE Member Malia Cohen Prepares to Give Birth Amid a Virus and Violence
By Tanu Henry | California Black Media About 41 weeks into her pregnancy now, California Board of Equalization (BOE) member Malia Cohen, who is the state’s only African American woman constitutional officer, is preparing to give birth on Sept. 3. Motherhood will be a new role for Cohen, a veteran leader and elected official, who…
Read More‘Sterilizing Children’ Bill Heads to Calif. Senate Floor Amid Public Outcry
By Brandon Showalter, From the CP Reporter A committee in the California state Senate voted earlier this week to approve a bill creating a fund for experimental medicalized gender-transition procedures, including cross-sex hormones and body-altering surgeries for both minors and legal adults. The move came after the Health Committee chair said in late July that the measure would…
Read MoreJenesse Center, Founded by 5 Black Los Angeles Women, Celebrates 40 Years of Service Bringing Life Saving Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention Programs to the Community.
LOS ANGELES, CA – Jenesse Center is celebrating 40 years of bringing life saving programs and services to the community. Founded by five Black women in the Los Angeles area who wanted to provide a place of hope for other women who needed protection and a way of escape, renewal, support and self sufficiency, the…
Read MoreDespite FDA Warnings, Mississippi Lawmaker Pushes Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 Treatment
By Bobby Harrison from Mississippi Today An elected official is urging his constituents to sign a petition asking the governor to allow for the use of a controversial drug as a treatment for the coronavirus. State Rep. Dana Criswell’s petition drive to get Gov. Tate Reeves to sign an order allowing the use of the…
Read MoreJohn Lewis’s Motorcade Stops at Rainbow Crosswalks To Honor His Support for LGBTQ People
By Alex Bollinger The hearse carrying the late civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) stopped by Atlanta’s rainbow crosswalks in remembrance of his embrace of LGBTQ equality. The motorcade made its way from Dobbins Air Force Base in Atlanta to the Georgia State Capitol on Wednesday. The motorcade stopped at the rainbow crosswalks at…
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Dr. Stella Immanuel: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
By Caroline Warnock From the Heavy.com Dr. Stella Immanuel is the Houston doctor who is advocating the use of hydroxychloroquine as a cure for coronavirus. Immanuel, 55, went viral after championing the use of the drug in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on July 27 as part of the America’s Frontline Doctors Summit.…
Read MoreTikTok Includes Brotherhood Crusade in $850,000 Grant to African American Community Organizations Working to Undo the Damage Caused by Systemic Racism Through Actionable Public Policy
LOS ANGELES, Calif., July. 23, 2020 – TikTok named the Brotherhood Crusade to receive an endowment from an $850,000 grant designated to African American organizations working to undo the damage caused by systemic racism through actionable public policy. Organizations to receive the grant include the Brooklyn Community Foundation, Chicago-based My Block My Hood My City, and The Brotherhood…
Read MoreWhy Save the Children of Mound Bayou?
By Gloria Zuurveen Editor-in-Chief You say, “Why save the children of Mound Bayou?” I say save the children of Mound Bayou because the children of Mound Bayou are special, they are different, they are exceptional, they are phenomenal. And they are worth saving in order to save the soul of Mound Bayou, thus, save the…
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