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AfroLatinos in the Americas. Credit: (source: historiadeafrica.com)

The Vibrant Yet Underrepresented Afro Latino Community

BLACK VOICE NEWS — As education surrounding Latino identity grows and expands, specifically recognizing the presence of Black Latinos in the U.S., there have been calls...

#NNPA BlackPress6 months ago

Doulas: A Formal Part of CA Health Care System – Birthing While Black Part 2

BLACK VOICE NEWS — While California boasts one of the lowest pregnancy-related mortalities in the nation, the latest available data from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH)...

Credit: Illustration by Chris Allen, BVN

#NNPA BlackPress7 months ago

What You Need to Know About California’s New 988 Suicide and Mental Health Crisis Line

BLACK VOICE NEWS — Le Ondra Clark-Harvey, Executive Director of the California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies, explained that call centers have 98% effectiveness in...

The Black Health Initiative is working to improve Black maternal health by providing coaching to address chronic conditions before, during, and after pregnancy, acknowledging underlying social needs that impact health, and connecting patients to resources and programs needed to flourish.

#NNPA BlackPress11 months ago

OP-ED: Black Women Are Still Dying from Childbirth in 2022. Why?

BLACK VOICE NEWS — Racism, and the lack of access to and knowledge of resources, plays a huge role in contributing to persistent health care inequities...

#NNPA BlackPress1 year ago

Black and Indigenous: When the Way You Look Doesn’t Match Expectations

BLACK VOICE NEWS — The Black Voice News spoke to Kyle Mays, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at UCLA about the experience...

Twenty-four percent of Black adults lived in households that were behind on rent payments. And approximately one-third of African Americans shared a home with someone expected to lose employment income this month. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

#NNPA BlackPress2 years ago

Black California: Reporting on the Impacts of COVID-19

BLACK VOICE NEWS - Nationally, Blacks are 13 percent of the country’s population, but 30 percent of the coronavirus cases. According to The Atlantic’s COVID Tracker,...

Project Leaders: Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds, Bergis Jules, and Candice Mays

#NNPA BlackPress2 years ago

Black Voice News Receives $300,000 from GNI Innovation Challenge

BLACK VOICE NEWS — BVN is an accountability news organization reporting on the economic, cultural and social issues impacting Black people in California. In a moment...

In an environment where lines are being intentionally blurred between rumors, facts and falsehoods, readers everywhere look to local news outlets to be purveyors of truth, accuracy, and authenticity, “With Report for America’s support, BVN is better positioned to focus on community issues that are often unreported,” said BVN Executive Editor Stephanie Williams. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

#NNPA BlackPress2 years ago

Report for America Selects Black Voice News for 2021 Newsroom Grant

BLACK VOICE NEWS — “Our purpose is always to foster a community that is informed and inspired to seek collaborative and constructive solutions to issues whether...

Black youth gain pleasure from “mixing” incongruent words into Slang and Rap for messages and for play. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

#NNPA BlackPress2 years ago

Black People’s “Soul” Slang Classified

BLACK VOICE NEWS — Black youth gain pleasure from “mixing” incongruent words into Slang and Rap for messages and for play. Such Poetic mental blending of seemingly unlikely...

California Governor Gavin Newsom. In his state budget proposal released Jan. 10, Newsom formally announced more than $1 billion in homeless response funding, including $750 million for the Access to Housing and Services Fund, and making changes to the Medi-Cal system to better serve individuals experiencing mental illness and homelessness.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Newsom’s confusing COVID-19 decrees

BLACK VOICE NEWS — “When you have people that are struggling and suffering with severe mental health and brain health issues, when people are not attending...

Between 2015 and 2017 opioid- and synthetic opioid-involved death rates among Blacks in two key age groups have doubled in large metro areas. Those aged 45 to 54 years increased from 19.3 to 41.9 per 100,000 and death rates among those 55 to 64 years of age increased from 21.8 to 42.7 per 100,000. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Blacks in Metro Areas across the Country are Dying of Opioid Addiction at Increasing and Alarming Rates

BLACK VOICE NEWS — Although all racial, ethnic and age groups saw significant increases in opioid-and synthetic opioid-involved overdose deaths between 2015 and 2017, death rates among Blacks in...

(l-r) Amee Raval and Sona Mohnot (Photo by: CalMatters

#NNPA BlackPress4 years ago

Seeking to help people at greatest risk from climate change

BLACK VOICE NEWS — Californians have faced droughts, heat waves, wildfires and other climate-fueled crises that seem to break records every year. But while climate change impacts...

#NNPA BlackPress4 years ago

Last-minute switch would serve one oil refinery — and environmentalists are crying foul

BLACK VOICE NEWS — With a bit of 11th-hour legislative magic, state lawmakers have taken a bill related to volunteer firefighter reimbursements and — poof! — transformed it into...

Simone Biles (Photo by: Fernando Frazão | Agência Brasil | Wiki Commons)

#NNPA BlackPress4 years ago

The Athletic Brilliance, Biometrics and Unbounded Success of Simone Biles

BLACK VOICE NEWS — A four-time Olympic gold medalist, Biles winning the national title for the sixth time this year was certainly cause for celebration. However, it...

Cross section of model for proposed new Clippers arena (Photo by: blackvoicenews.com)

#NNPA BlackPress4 years ago

Clippers Owner Celebrates Future While Forum Owner Cries “Foul!”

BLACK VOICE NEWS — The Clippers recently unveiled additional details and renderings of its privately financed sports and entertainment center anchored by the team’s new basketball...

Peter Hardeman Burnett (Photo by: gregnokes.com)

Black Voice News4 years ago

Gavin Newsom Calls Out California’s Racist First Governor. Who was Peter Hardeman Burnett?

BLACK VOICE NEWS — In his apology for California’s genocidal treatment of Native Americans, Gov. Gavin Newsom focused attention on the state’s nearly forgotten first elected governor, Peter Hardeman Burnett, and...

Black Voice News4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Forty Years of Lies Stigmatizing “Teenage Pregnancy” Are Enough

BLACK VOICE NEWS — The ensuing 40-year squabble pitting sex education (which at best has marginal effects on pregnancy rates) versus “abstinence-only” preaching (which is completely worthless) suppressed crucial realities...

(l-r) Gladys Limón And V. John White (Photo by: CALmatters)

Black Voice News4 years ago

California’s new Public Utilities Commission president must lead us to a gas-free future

BLACK VOICE NEWS — Everywhere you turn in California, clean energy technologies are winning out over gas. From Oxnard to Los Angeles and Glendale, to the Inland...

Black Voice News4 years ago

Join the BLU Team

BLACK VOICE NEWS — San Bernardino – The non-profit BLU Educational Foundation is seeking applicants for several positions including college prep advisors, college success advisors (student positions),...

Black Voice News4 years ago

UC Library’s hasty implementation of a complex plan means academic researchers lose

BLACK VOICE NEWS — The University of California Digital Library has terminated journal renewal negotiations with Elsevier, requesting the cancellation of campus access to over 2,500 of...

Black Voice News4 years ago

California’s small business owners cannot afford health care. Here are ways to help

BLACK VOICE NEWS — The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the first meaningful healthcare reform that helped address the needs of small businesses, their employees and the self-employed....

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - JUNE 27: Chancellor of Vanderbilt University Nicholas S. Zeppos and Lydia Howarth attend The Celebration of Legends Gala 2019 at Music City Center on June 27, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for the National Museum of African American Music)

Black History4 years ago

Vanderbilt Pledges $2M for African American Music Museum

BLACK VOICE NEWS — Vanderbilt University is pledging $2 million for the National Museum of African American Music, which is scheduled to open a 56,000-square-foot facility in...

(l-r) Dr. Sandra Hernández and Raymond Baxter

Black Voice News4 years ago

California’s new budget invests in overlooked piece of health care puzzle: workers

BLACK VOICE NEWS — Is this the start of a new era for California’s health workforce? It sure looks like it. Gov. Gavin Newsom is poised...

Black Voice News4 years ago

Democrats in California have all the power—and much of the turmoil

BLACK VOICE NEWS — You might think a political party racked by scandal, facing three lawsuits and riven with infighting would be in a bad spot politically....

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Inland Empire Health Officials Warn of Increased Cases of RSV in Children

The Vibrant Yet Underrepresented Afro Latino Community

Doulas: A Formal Part of CA Health Care System – Birthing While Black Part 2

What You Need to Know About California’s New 988 Suicide and Mental Health Crisis Line

OP-ED: Black Women Are Still Dying from Childbirth in 2022. Why?

Black and Indigenous: When the Way You Look Doesn’t Match Expectations

Black California: Reporting on the Impacts of COVID-19

Black Voice News Receives $300,000 from GNI Innovation Challenge

Report for America Selects Black Voice News for 2021 Newsroom Grant

Black People’s “Soul” Slang Classified

COMMENTARY: Newsom’s confusing COVID-19 decrees

Blacks in Metro Areas across the Country are Dying of Opioid Addiction at Increasing and Alarming Rates

Seeking to help people at greatest risk from climate change

Last-minute switch would serve one oil refinery — and environmentalists are crying foul

The Athletic Brilliance, Biometrics and Unbounded Success of Simone Biles

Clippers Owner Celebrates Future While Forum Owner Cries “Foul!”

Gavin Newsom Calls Out California’s Racist First Governor. Who was Peter Hardeman Burnett?

COMMENTARY: Forty Years of Lies Stigmatizing “Teenage Pregnancy” Are Enough

California’s new Public Utilities Commission president must lead us to a gas-free future

Join the BLU Team

UC Library’s hasty implementation of a complex plan means academic researchers lose

California’s small business owners cannot afford health care. Here are ways to help

Vanderbilt Pledges $2M for African American Music Museum

California’s new budget invests in overlooked piece of health care puzzle: workers

Democrats in California have all the power—and much of the turmoil

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