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Keeping it Real: Has Hatred, Guns, Unbridled Racism and Violence Left Us Numb to Reality and Too Paralyzed to Act

by S.E. Williams

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Community

Meet Black Voice Newsroom’s CatchLight and RFA Photojournalists Michael Grant and Aryana Noroozi

by BVN

Community

CNPA Awards Black Voice News Reporter Breanna Reeves

by BVN

Covid-19

CA Health Officials Issue Joint Statement Supporting COVID-19 Boosters for Kids Ages 5 to 11

by S.E. Williams

Keeping It Real

Keeping it Real: Riverside and San Bernardino Voters, Don’t Sit This Election Out…

by S.E. Williams

Community

Essential Stories: Black Worker Data Training Workshop

by BVN

Community

Hate crime in New York Leaves 10 Dead

by Associated Press

Featured Mapping Black California Projects

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How Has COVID-19 Impacted Black Bodies Over the Past Year?

by BVN

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Inland Empire – Police Budgets are About Values

by BVN

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Declaring Racism as a Public Health Crisis: California

by BVN

Covid

Covid-19

COVID Vaccine for Young Kids: Moderna Seeks Emergency Use Authorization

by Breanna Reeves

Covid-19

Transportation Requirements, Vaccine Mandates, and Booster Shots for Children

by Breanna Reeves

Covid-19

California Updates Guidelines for 2nd COVID-19 Booster Dose

by BVN

Covid-19

What We Know About the New Omicron Subvariant BA.2

by Breanna Reeves

Covid-19

Evictions Loom Even as Thousands of Rent and Mortgage Relief Applications Remain in Process

by Breanna Reeves

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Black Californians Move Voter Momentum Down Ballot for Lasting Change

by Mariah Brown

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Black Voice News Then and Now

by Breanna Reeves

Story Maps

Retrospective:West Valley Water District A Chronology of Corruption, Cronyism, Malfeasance and Mismanagement

by S.E. Williams

Story Maps

How Do California Cities Spend Money on Policing?

by BVN

Story Maps

Footsteps to You: Chattel Slavery

by BVN

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Vaccination Hesitancy

by BVN

Community

Black Voice News to Welcome One of CatchLight’s Next Five Fellows

by S.E. Williams

Community

Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

by S.E. Williams

Community

California Black Freedom Fund’s Executive Director Marc Philpart on Closing the Philanthropic Gap

by Breanna Reeves

Community

Underbanked and Unbanked: Wellness Pilot Program To Help Minority Communities

by S.E. Williams

California

Fontana, AG Rob Bonta, Reach Innovative Settlement in Warehouse Lawsuit

by S.E. Williams

Politics

Civil Rights

Madame Secretary: Hon. Shirley N. Weber Reflects on Voting Rights, First Year in Office

by California Black Media

Politics

As Biden Struggles, Harris Touts California Wildfire Aid

by Associated Press

2021 Recall Efforts

Recall Election Heats Up: Gov. Newsom Trades Fire With Larry Elder

by California Black Media

2021 Recall Efforts

Harris Cancels Planned California Campaign Stop with Newsom

by Associated Press

2021 Recall Efforts

Opinion: $215 M Cal Recall Election is Baseless, Trump-Backed Power Grab

by BVN

California

Guns, fire and donkey parades

by CalMatters

Cal Matters

In children’s voices: Help us understand the pandemic through California’s youngest

by CalMatters

Cal Matters

Do California ag counties hold solutions to Monterey County farmworker housing crisis?

by BVN

Cal Matters

GM drops Trump fight against California car standards

by BVN

Education

Biden Administration Supports the Powerful Legacy of HBCUs

by Phyllis Kimber Wilcox

Education

New “College Corps” Program Offers $10,000 to Students for Community Service

by California Black Media

Community

RUSD Pushes Back Against Extremists, Affirming Ethnic Studies is Not Critical Race Theory

by Breanna Reeves

Education

LAUSD Independent Study and Distance Learning Programs Fall Short During COVID-19

by Phyllis Kimber Wilcox

Health

What is Black Maternal Health Week and Why Does it Matter?

by Breanna Reeves

Community

Centering Trauma to Help Survivors of Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence Heal

by Katie Licari

Health

Race and Health Care: New Report Shares Insights on Black Californians

by California Black Media

Health

Patient, Beware: Some States, Including CA, Still Pushing Ineffective Covid Antibody Treatments

by Kaiser Health News

Government

Black Photographer Lelanie Foster Captures Official Portrait of Ketanji Brown Jackson

by Breanna Reeves

Government

Confirmed! Ketanji Brown Jackson First Black Woman to Serve on US Supreme Court

by Breanna Reeves

Community

At Last…Lynching Becomes a Hate Crime in America

by S.E. Williams

Breaking News

Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes History as First Black Woman Nominated to U.S. Supreme Court

by Breanna Reeves

Economy

Community

2021 California Economic Summit Highlights Resilience Funding for Local Communities

by Breanna Reeves

Education

Op-Ed: Reopen California and Unlock Financial Aid

by BVN

Economy

Wells Fargo Announces Investments in Two Additional Black Owned Banks

by S.E. Williams

News

Black Economic Development Fund hits $250M Goal, Makes First Catalytic Investments

by BVN

National

Life in Prison for Murderers of Ahmaud Arbery

by Breanna Reeves

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Community

Arbery Verdict: Guilty!

by S.E. Williams

Community

Pandemic pushes more Black Americans to take up urban farming to fight ‘food apartheid’

by BVN

Community

Taken by COVID-19, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell Leaves a Mixed Legacy on Race and War

by S.E. Williams