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CALIFORNIA BLACK NEWS STORIES
Black Hairstyles Protected by Law
(INGLEWOOD TODAY) - Californians who experience discrimination because of their ethnic hairstyles can sue their employers under a new law recently signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Read More
Police Aim To Be More ‘Engaging’ At State Fair
(SACRAMENTO OBSERVER) - The opening weekend of the California State Fair marked the third straight year that a melee took place. The only difference from the two previous campaign is that there were no arrests. Read More
California’s 2020 Redistricting Commission Is Accepting Applications: Only 253 African Americans Have Applied
(OAKLAND POST) - Gerrymandering, or the creation of voting districts that look like jigsaw puzzle pieces to meet political goals, is a problem the California Redistricting Commission seeks to avoid. Read More
With early childhood education on CA’s agenda, preschool teachers ask why ‘cashiers at McDonalds’ get better pay
(BLACK VOICE NEWS) - Preschool teacher Lorena Gomez’s work days begin at 6:30 a.m. when she welcomes a dozen 3-year-olds into her classroom. Every day, Gomez spends nine hours standing, sitting and crouching at the height of a toddler, passing out snacks, overseeing playtimes and teaching tiny Californians their numbers, shapes, colors, letters, and social niceties. She marvels, she says, at how quickly they grow—that is, when she has time. Read more
(Dis)location: Black Exodus – Let’s talk about how it happened and what to do about it
(SF BAY VIEW) - (Dis)location is a multi-platform publication and public workshop series centered around the issue of local housing justice. The first chapter, Black Exodus, builds upon the Anti-Eviction Mapping project’s commitment to centering communities as producers of social and historical knowledge. Activated by the unprecedented out-migration of Black San Franciscans from their historic neighborhoods, our aim with this project has been to foreground Black storytelling and art-making. Read more
Many Black App-Based Drivers, Media Freelancers Want to Remain “Their Own Bosses”
(SACRAMENTO OBSERVER) — “My cellulitis has become so chronic, if I get scratched, cut, pinched or burned, I’ll have to be admitted to the hospital,” says Angela Agbasi, 64, a Cancer survivor and Los Angeles single mom who drives Lyft and Uber about 30 hours a week to supplement her Social Security income. Read More
California’s struggle to get food stamps to the hungry
(BLACK VOICE NEWS) - California, a state with the nation’s highest poverty rate, consistently ranks near the bottom when it comes to enrolling low-income people in CalFresh, the state’s name for the federal food stamp program. Read More
Governor Amends Controversial Charter School Bill
(OAKLAND POST) - After weeks of negotiation, Gov. Gavin Newsom has stepped in to scale back proposed legislation that charter school advocates feared would radically slow charter growth. Read More
Black Women Breaking Barriers in the Marijuana Cultivation Business
(SAC CULTURE HUB) - The chances of Black women now breaking into the Cannabis industry is not only possible but is really happening. This business of recreational marijuana is now legal in some states across the United States. However there are lots of complex and costly barriers to entry especially for African Americans and even more difficult for Black women to penetrate. Read More
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NATIONAL BLACK NEWS STORIES
Trump’s harsh words on ‘squad’ reinforce dark posts online
(SACRAMENTO OBSERVER) - Long before President Donald Trump turned up the heat on four Democratic congresswomen of color, saying they should “go back” to their home countries, hateful rhetoric and disinformation about the self-described squad was lurking online. Read More
The Inevitability of Reparations; Denied But Not Defeated
(OAKLAND POST) - For those who might be curious about why I’m writing on reparations, be assured about one thing; this is not entertainment! I am not a lawyer, however, since I can read and write, I choose to write to inform. Read More
Trump Condemned by Congress
(IE VOICE) — The American president has been far from discreet about his disdain for people of color whether immigrants, naturalized or American born. Though most people of color and many Whites in this nation are of the belief he long ago crossed the line when it comes to racist comments and behaviors not since he first announced his candidacy in 2015, but in the long years of before. Read More
HBCU Leadership – the Revolving Door
(PASADENA / SAN GABRIEL VALLEY JOURNAL) — Running an institution of higher education is like running a multi-million dollar business. There are negotiations for property, talent, capital, innovation, partnerships, and oh – student recruitment, retention, graduation,and curriculum specialization. Both business and education have to focus on ethics, equity, brand, competition, financing, changes in the marketplace, the “customer experience”… The responsibilities and expectations can seem dizzying and overwhelming to those of us who don’t sit in such executive roles. Read More
Immigration And The African Diaspora
(SACRAMENTO OBSERVER) — With the Trump administration’s hardline and heartless immigration policies — starting with the 2017 rescinding of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) for young immigrants already in the U.S. and continuing with the 2018 family separation policy under his so-called “zero-tolerance” approach at the U.S.-Mexico border — the focus has been on brown people escaping poverty, gang violence, and state terror in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. But there are also tens of thousands of African, Caribbean, and African diasporans entering the country by plane that are also trapped in the morass of Trumpian hardline immigration policies. Read More
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BLACK AMERICA IN THE NEWS
The long, ugly history of insisting minority groups can’t criticize America
(WASHINGTON POST) - All week, President Trump has been suggesting that black, Latina and Muslim congresswomen critical of his policies should “go back” to “the totally broken and crime infested” countries “from which they came,” even though all but one of the lawmakers he has been attacking were born in the United States. That made Trump just the latest in a long line of American politicians who have demonized ethnic and religious minorities for political gain. Read More
NAACP: Don’t Make Black Kids the New ‘Cotton’ That Funds Failing Public Schools
(EDUCATION POST) - Because we want our children and grandchildren to be ready for college, NAACP members like me have chosen tuition-free public charter schools. But instead of protecting our rights, the NAACP is going along with labor unions and trying to shut down our schools. Read More
During America’s ‘most segregated hour,’ preachers grapple with Trump’s politics
(WASHINGTON POST) - The Rev. Stephen Howard knew President Trump’s speech was going to be unsettling for his city and his mostly black church the moment he saw people had lined up at 4 a.m. Wednesday to get into the arena. These were his congregants’ neighbors and co-workers. Read More
Black families once lived off their southern farmland. Their descendants are struggling to hold onto it.
(WASHINGTON POST) - In Halifax County, Va., about 200 miles southwest of Washington, vibrant green hills bounce out of the earth, and muscular, dark brown cattle rest in meadows alongside farmhouses old and new. Creeks and rivers jut through the landscape like stretched yarn, mixing with soil under crisscrossing tree branches. Read More
It’s Disappointing That My Civil Rights Organization Doesn’t Support My Civil Rights
(EDUCATION POST) - As an advocate for equity in public education, I joined the NAACP, and eventually became the education chair for Southwest Riverside County. I believed I was doing the right thing with the right organization, yet soon found some troubling discrepancies. Read More
James Dolan and MSG are waging a war on Inglewood over new Clippers arena project
(NY DAILY NEWS) - Utilizing his bottomless wealth and familiar bully tactics, James Dolan has attempted to derail the development plans of a low-income city in California and influence its mayoral election from across the country. Read More
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