Longtime Pediatrician Joseph Joyner Passes Away
By Khari Johnson Longtime pediatrician Joseph Joyner, better known as “Pop” by those closest to him, passed away Oct. 25, after decades of taking care of newborn babies and kids in hospitals across San...
View ArticleBoard of Supervisors Approve 332 Home Development in Valley Center
By Gig Conaughton, County of San Diego Communications Office San Diego County’s Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a project Wednesday that plans to build 332 homes, public and private park...
View ArticleThe Burdens of Gerrymandering Are Borne by Communities of Color
by Rep. Gwen Moore Gerrymandering is a disgraceful national tradition that should have no place in our electoral system, irrespective of the political party in control. It doesn’t take a constitutional...
View ArticleFreddie Gray Van Driver Found Not Guilty of Administrative Charges
Associated Press A disciplinary panel has found a Baltimore police van driver not guilty on all administrative charges related to his transportation of Freddie Gray, the black man whose death in...
View ArticleMothers Fueled by Personal Loss Turn Focus to Political Change
by Sherri Williams When Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election last year, Lucia McBath was devastated. McBath crossed the country multiple times campaigning for Clinton with the Mothers of the...
View ArticleThe Age of Trump Is Producing More Black Gun Owners
by Trymaine Lee CLEVELAND — When Lesley Green was a little girl in Houston in the 1960s — just a few decades after the routine lynchings of blacks in the South — her father would go off to work a...
View ArticleFighting Hunger and Obesity in Africa
By Tim Wainwright London — I started work this morning feeling disillusioned. A report had hit my desk that painted a very bleak picture of the state of the world’s health – and for a moment I was...
View ArticleCounty Surplus Vehicles Hit Auction Block
By Tracy DeFore, County of San Diego Communications OfficeNov. 6, 2017 | 12:08 PMNov. 7, 2017 | 2:07 PM Step on it if you want to get your bids in for the County’s next vehicle auction. Bidding begins...
View ArticleLiAngelo Ball, 2 other UCLA basketball players arrested in China for...
BEIJING (AP) — UCLA basketball coach Steve Alford will sit the three players involved in a shoplifting incident in China for Saturday’s game against Georgia Tech in Shanghai. Alford, however, declined...
View ArticleTia Mowry puts all angst to rest over ‘Sister, Sister’ reboot
Fans of the ’90s sitcom “Sister, Sister” can finally rejoice as a reboot is already in the works. Tia Mowry says that she and her twin sister, Tamera Mowry, are so close to finalizing a Sister, Sister...
View Article26 Nigerian women and girls found dead in Mediterranean Sea
Investigators in Italy are looking into the deaths of 26 Nigerian women and girls, whose bodies were found in the Mediterranean Sea. The bodies were brought to the port of Salerno by the Spanish ship...
View ArticleWhy Black Faith Leaders Must Lead the Fight for Healthcare Access
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) First of all, despite the Trump Administration’s efforts to kill (“repeal and replace”) the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it is still the law of the land,...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: A Veteran Speaks Out
The Honorable Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin & the Congress of the United States of America: I write this as an open letter on behalf of myself, and thousands of other military...
View ArticleMinorities Being Stopped at High Rates by Connecticut Police
by Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. — Six town police departments in Connecticut and a state police troop have such unusually high rates of stopping black and Hispanic drivers that their data will be...
View ArticleCampaign calls on colleges to ‘end rape culture’
by Foluké Tuakli A campaign circulating around historically black colleges and campuses in Atlanta is calling for an end to sexual assault on campus. Last week, flyers with the hashtag...
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UCLA basketball players arrested in China return home
by Elizabeth Chuck and Rosanna Arlia Three UCLA basketball players who were arrested on suspicion of shoplifting while on a tour of China last week arrived home in the United States on Tuesday....
View ArticleCollege To Name School After Trailblazing Journalist Gwen Ifill
By Associated Press A college in Boston will name one of its schools after the late Gwen Ifill, veteran journalist and a co-host of PBS’ “NewsHour” and who moderated two vice presidential debates....
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Lincoln beats Vista to advance in CIF Playoffs
By Keith D. King On Friday, Nov. 10th, the #4 ranked Lincoln Hornets (9-2) hosted the #12 ranked Vista Panthers (3-8) in a CIF playoff showdown. Both teams started out a little bit slow, with neither...
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Urban League Young Professionals to host ‘Black Land Matters’ Event
By Edward Henderson The only thing more valuable than the financial buildings and wealth that flowed through ‘Black Wall Street’ in Greenwood, Oklahoma was the land that it was built on. Because of the...
View ArticleFilm Review: Roman J. Israel, Esq
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Denzel Washington may be the most accomplished actor of our generation. Like a chameleon, he’s morphed from the stern father in...
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