Keeping it Real: The Road to Abolition is Long and Littered with Broken Lives
S. E. Williams | Voice Executive Editor “It’s easier to be ignorant and say I don’t know about the problem. But once you know, once you’ve seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together...
Justice, Peace and Genuine Respect
Hardy Brown | Publisher Emeritus Comments before the San Bernardino City Council Wednesday, April 21, 2021. “But let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” This is written in Amos 5:24. To me this means, "a concern for justice, peace,...
Black Tax Payers in San Bernardino County Should Be Heard
Margaret Hill | Special to the IE Voice and Black Voice News These comments were submitted for reading during the public comment period of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. They were not read aloud during the...
FEMA’s Funeral Assistance Plan Opens With Busy Signals, Technical Glitches and Warnings of Fraud
Voice Staff | FEMA is providing financial assistance for COVID-19 related funeral expenses incurred after January 20, 2020. The funds are available under the Under the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 and the American Rescue Plan...
Reopening School: Key to Bouncing Back is Being Back
Dr. Margaret Fortune | Fortune School of Education Reopening school after a year of being in a COVID-19 closure is hard. But, I can tell you first hand, after having reopened my schools on April 5, there is nothing better than seeing students and teachers in...
Equal Justice USA Statement on Derek Chauvin Court Decision
Shari Silberstein | Executive Director, Equal Justice USA Today, so many people are exhaling with relief for the thousands who cannot: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Duante Wright, Adam Toledo, and so many more. A legal system that has been over-applied to Black and...
Rants & Raves
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The Gore Collection of Rare African-American Artifacts Hopes to Inspire Empathy and Discourse
Footsteps to You – Chattel Slavery opened this week at UC Riverside’s Special Collections...
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New West Valley Water District Ratepayers Association Organized
January 14, 2018 Paulette Brown Hinds, PhD Last week my column highlighted more questionable...
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West Valley Water District Birds of Feathers Flock Together
Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD I inherited my passion for opinion writing from my dad, Hardy L. Brown,...
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Small Acts of Kindness in 2018
Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD Several years ago I wrote a column about how simple small acts of...
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Keeping it Real: Redistricting—Be Aware of Stacking, Packing, and Cracking
S. E. Williams | BVN Executive Editor “Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what...
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Funeral Reimbursement for COVID Deaths this Year
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced it will allocate $2 billion — $7,000 per...
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Racial Trauma
Dr. Ernest Levister | Contributor GOP South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott described his encounters as a...
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