The Southern Truth
Negrogate Part 1: The Boule’s Scandalous Genocidal Betrayal and Racial Treason Against the Black Nation Within a White Nation
COMMENTARY By Dr. Randy Short One of the best television shows from the classic era of American television was Bruce Geller’s Spy Thriller fiction “Mission Impossible” which aired from September 1966 to March 1973. Geller’s CIA inspired series always led with it’s powerful theme music that was followed by a the Impossible Mission…
Read MoreLetter To Editor: Irma Hopkins of Beverly Hills
Congratulations on your tenacious and unrelenting dedication to providing information to the Black Community for more than 20-years. You are to be commended and applauded on your profound, informative and compelling reporting on a weekly basis. Thank you for all that you do for our community. Irma Hopkins
Read MoreWillie Brown, Jr., Is Not Dead
Staff | California Black Media Former California Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, Jr., is not dead. On the June 28 broadcast of the 2020 BET Awards, the network included Brown’s image and name in a video montage of famous African Americans who have died within the last year. The tribute included Diahann Carroll, Bill Withers, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, Pernell Whitaker and others. “I…
Read MoreThe Black Report: Mayor James T. Butts & Immigration Activist Denae Joseph
Mayor James T. Butts of Inglewood
Read MoreCall to Leaders for Justice & Action Panel
EBIAS presents Leaders for Justice and Action (LJAD), a special panel of diverse leaders to discuss on current and relevant matters as they focus on role of leadership in “a chosen generation,” black communities, and black churches. LJAD is a special panel that live streams.
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 MoreJoe Biden: The Last Liberal Segregationist Standing
COMMENTARY By Dr. Randy Lancaster-Short, M.Phil., M.Div., Ph.D. Mirror, mirror, on the wall who is Black folks’ greatest enemy running for president this fall? If there was a truly free and fair mainstream press, or, at least, an objective investigative Black press, the answer would be a banality—Jim…
Read MoreOpinion: Inglewood’s Choice to Quickly Close Elementary School Harms Children and Hurts Our Community
By Margaret Richards-Bowers Special to California Black Media Partners Closing a neighborhood school without collaborating with parents, school staff, and the neighborhood only invites strong pushback from the groups not included in the decision. This is the path the Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD) took when it decided to close Warren Lane TK-7 Elementary School. The school serves predominantly…
Read MoreIs It Really Racism?
By Billy Mitchell A few years ago I approached some of the major foundations and enquired as to why they did not fund black programs. The program I began in 2001 had been serving hundreds of youngsters each year, providing free after school music instruction. But each year our program was passed over by…
Read MoreCOMMENTARY: Change is a Movement and a Process
By Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber, Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus Voice Media Ventures network One thing is clear this Juneteenth: change cannot wait. Today, not only do we commemorate Black liberation from slavery, we also commemorate victims of police brutality and the lives lost at their hands. Our nation is witnessing an uprising of…
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