Author Archives: Aryana Noroozi

Black Voice News photojournalist Aryana Noroozi was born in San Diego, California and graduated with a master’s degree from The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her love for visual storytelling led her to document immigrant and deportee communities and those struggling with addiction. She was a 2020 Pulitzer Center Crisis Reporting Fellow and a GroundTruth Project Migration Fellow. She is currently a CatchLight/Report for America corps member employed by Black Voice News. You can learn more about her at aryananoroozi.com. You can email her at aryana@blackvoicenews.com.

Black Joy: Meet the Mabsons

by Breanna Reeves and Aryana Noroozi April 14, 2023April 15, 2023

Black Joy: Meet the Hopes and Their Doula, Karen Sykes

by Breanna Reeves and Aryana Noroozi April 13, 2023April 15, 2023

Black Joy: Meet Aiyana Davison, a Certified Nurse Midwife

by Breanna Reeves and Aryana Noroozi April 12, 2023April 15, 2023

Black Joy: Meet the Solorzanos

by Breanna Reeves and Aryana Noroozi April 11, 2023April 15, 2023

Dr. Glenda Newell-Harris, regional medical director of YesCare and co-author of Focus on Your Best Health, shares a slide about effective communication with your doctor and maximizing limited time in order to best have your needs met during a visit. Her discussion, which focused on advocacy in the healthcare system, was hosted by Community Engagement & Outreach for the Center for Healthy Communities at the University of Riverside, California (UCR) on March 30, 2023.

Learning to Advocate for Yourself and Others When Dealing With Healthcare Professionals

by Breanna Reeves and Aryana Noroozi April 3, 2023April 3, 2023

Brandi T. Biggles, known within the Southern California culinary community as Chef Brandi, shops for produce at Lazy Acres market in Hermosa Beach on February 28, 2023. Each month, she creates her signature fire-grilled vegan artisan pizzas at the Prosperity Market, a traveling farmers market featuring Black farmers, vendors and chefs. Biggles helped the founders develop the market as she shared a similar vision of a mobile market and recalled having the idea drafted on her vision board which she displays on her bedroom wall. Today, she calls it her results board because she wants the results to come to fruition and not remain a vision. Biggles hopes to soon purchase a vehicle to house a mobile kitchen and travel the country, serving food in cities across the U.S.

Black Female Entrepreneur Chef Brandi T. Biggles Blends Prayer, Whole Food Consumption & Creativity

by Aryana Noroozi March 30, 2023May 23, 2023

Musicians in Academia Maqueos, a Los Angeles-based music academy, alternate playing their instruments in their performance of traditional Oaxacan music on stage at CSUSB’s AfroOaxacan cultural celebration at the Garcia Center for the Arts on February 25, 2023. The group was led by co-director Yulissa Maqueos.

CSUSB’s Anthropology Museum Celebrates AfroOaxacan Culture as Black History Month Closes

by Breanna Reeves and Aryana Noroozi February 28, 2023February 28, 2023

The IRS is accepting and processing 2022 tax returns, with April 18 as the deadline to file last year’s tax returns.

2023 Tax Filing Season Begins with Increased Support for Taxpayers this Year

by Aryana Noroozi January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

Sara Fee poses for a portrait after speaking about her experience as an Amazon worker at the picket outside of KSBD, the Amazon air hub warehouse in San Bernardino, on October 14, 2022.“We’re working for the biggest corporation in California, Amazon, and I have to choose whether to buy food or gas.” Fee says Amazon has ignored many issues that workers and advocates have raised and that they must continue fighting for safe working conditions and against retaliation. “It's not always just about the pay. It's about the way they treat the workers.”

San Bernardino Amazon Worker Sara Fee Fights Retaliation

by Aryana Noroozi January 26, 2023January 27, 2023