By Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Five months after declaring a fiscal emergency and predicting that they’d run out of funds by early this year, officials at...
By Kiley Russell Bay City News As the Bay Area’s economy continues its up-and-down recovery from the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, recent data shows...
Despite retaining top spot, work continues to tackle inequities San Rafael, CA – Marin County again has been ranked the healthiest of California’s 58 counties because of...
TEXS METRO NEWS — The study by Leone et al., published in the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health’s Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,...
By Emma Gallegos EdSource When she returned to school to become a nurse, Karina Mendez wanted a work-study job that she could balance with classes at...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The elder McDonald, served as president & CEO of Liberty Bank from its founding in 1972, leading and growing the Black-owned bank for...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — While our legislative wins were impressive and unprecedented, the pundits remained focused on the noise and name calling. They bought into the dire...
By Edward Henderson | California Black Media Last week, the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom released a list of bills from the current legislative session that...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — President Biden and Congressional Democrats are engineering a Great Recovery of, for and by the American People. From day one, we have focused...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Under President Biden’s leadership, our nation’s uninsured rate is at an all-time low, and Affordable Care Act enrollment is at an all-time high....
By Ben Jealous Right before our last national elections in 2020, thousands of Black voters in Detroit got a call from someone posing as a woman...
Maxim Elramsisy | California Black Media The California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) has released a study that found Black Californians are highly engaged with their health...
McKenzie Jackson | California Black Media As Hispanic Heritage Month comes to a close, California Black Media writer McKenzie Jackson takes a look at the lives...
GREENE COUNTY DEMOCRAT — “My platform includes more funding for education, adopting a lottery for education and other measures to raise teacher salaries and provide teacher...
By Carla Thomas When Sandy La applied to two programs while a senior at Oakland High, she had no idea the Oakland Promise program would truly...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, an advocate for reproductive rights, supports the Divine 9 campaign, proclaimed that “What we...
By Tanya Dennis The release last month of Alameda County’s Grand Jury report charging deficiencies in the Alameda County Probate Court system has set off a...
By Regina Brown Wilson and Sandy Close What could go wrong when politicians in Sacramento decide the future of journalism? The California Legislature could soon provide the answer....
By Ben Jealous George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer just over two years ago. His killing sparked a movement to end unjustified police killings...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 700 women die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications yearly in the United...
By Rev. Dr. Martha C. Taylor We are living in a world where controversial, complex issues, disagreements, debates, misunderstandings are looming large. There are controversies on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We’re talking about another two or three hundred Black women who will die every year simply because they don't have access to abortion...
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media Black women running for political office on every level across the state of California showed up strong during the...
By Tanya Dennis When facing a need for health care, mental health evaluation or a mental health crisis, people of Asian, American Indian or Latinx descent...
By Bo Tefu, California Black Media Attorney and Stanford Law School lecturer Lanhee Chen is a Republican running for California State Controller. Chen, a Fellow at...
