Manny Otiko | California Black Media On November 8, San Bernardino County voters will be presented with a choice on their ballot — leave the state of California and create the 51st state or remain the largest county in the nation. A consortium in San Bernardino is the latest group of people proposing to alter […]
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Black Lives Matter IE Chapter Member Donavan Caver Convicted of Vandalism
Gail Fry | VOICE Contributor The IE Voice/ and Black Voice News was there at the conclusion of a trial last month when an all-white jury found Black Lives Matter Inland Empire Chapter Member Donavan Caver guilty of vandalism. Caver was charged with vandalism for spraying the letters “FTP” in chalk on a planter wall […]
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Multi-million Dollar Settlements and the Need for Government Accountability
S.E. Williams I can hardly think of any job where–if you continuously failed to meet performance expectations or follow policy or continuously misused employer funds–you would not be subjected to some form of disciplinary action up to and including termination. The same does not appear to hold true however relative to elected officials and/or heads […]
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A Year Since the Signing of SB 2
Prince James Story | It’s been nearly a year since California became the 47th state to pass a bill that will bring more accountability to law enforcement across the state and establish a peace officer decertification process, something important to justice advocates across the inland region and around the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate […]
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Keeping it Real: Death in Detention – Incarceration in California
S.E. Williams Hardly a week goes by in the Inland Empire lately without a new report of an inmate death in either Riverside or San Bernardino County. As recently reported by the IE Voice on August 15, 2022, An arrest should not be a death sentence. Whether the cause of death is unknown pending investigation […]
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What You Need to Know About the Updated COVID-19 Boosters
Breanna Reeves | Updated vaccine booster doses are now available at local pharmacies, doctor’s offices and community health centers. Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authorization of updated bivalent booster doses on September 1, the new formula is expected to offer better protection against the highly transmissible Omicron variant. U.S. Secretary of Health […]
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Long Haul COVID in the Black Community
Breanna Reeves | The University of California Riverside’s Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) hosted the first town hall of many on the topic of long haul COVID-19 on August 30 at the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts. The first town hall in a series to focus on symptoms of long haul COVID, […]
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Riverside Community Health Foundation Welcomes Neighborhood Healthcare to its Community Clinics
IE Voice | The Riverside Community Health Foundation (RCHF) and Neighborhood Healthcare have announced a partnership for Neighborhood Healthcare to assume operations of RCHF’s three Riverside community clinics: Eastside Health Center and Eastside Health Center, Building B located on University and Arlanza Family Health Center on Arlington to provide quality affordable medical, dental, and behavioral […]
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Keeping it Real: One Black School Superintendent Failed to Meet Expectations
S.E. Williams During his eight year tenure as superintendent of the Victor Valley Unified High School District Dr. Ron Williams was singled out for several individual honors. He was named superintendent of the year in 2019 by the California Association of African-American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA) in 2019. In 2017 he was recognized by by […]
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Challenger Deep: Dr. Dawn Wright Makes History as First Black to Explore Deepest Known Point in Earth’s Seabed
Aryana Noroozi | Dr. Dawn Wright made history this summer becoming the first Black person to descend to the deepest known point in the earth’s seabed, a trench known as the Challenger Deep. To complete the dive, she traveled from her home in Redlands to the Mariana Trench, a territory of the Federated States of […]