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Josephine Wright: 93-year-old Hilton Head Island Woman is in A Legal Battle Over Her Family’s Land – ‘I Want to be Left Alone!’ |...
*(CNN) — Josephine Wright and her late husband, Samuel Wright Sr., moved from New York to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, nearly 30 years...
Black Culture
California NAACP Conference Honors 1968 Olympics Heroes
*The California Hawaii State Conference of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (CA/HI NAACP) held its 11th
annual Legacy Hall of Fame...
California Government
California Black Media Political Playback: News You Might Have Missed
*Here's your California Black Media Political Playback of stories you might have missed last week.
First up: Black Caucus Members Sen. Steven Bradford and Sen....
Reparations
Reparations Task Force to Recommend ‘Genealogy Branch’ to Prove Eligibility
*The California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans is recommending that the State Legislature fund a governmental department dedicated...
California Government
California Black Media Political Playback: Black Candidates Are Queuing Up for Intense Political Battles Ahead
*Darryn Harris, former chief of staff to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass while she served in the United States Congress, announced that he is...
Basketball
HBCU Black College Basketball Hall of Fame Announces Inaugural Class | WATCH
*The HBCU Black College Basketball Hall of Fame board of directors announced its inaugural class of 12 inductees from Historically Black Colleges and Universities....
Events
The Black Excellence Brunch was Lit with Athletic Greens, Savage Fenty & Zerina Akers | PICs
*The Black Excellence Brunch held another installment of their iconic event on Sunday, March 26, 2023, with sponsors Athletic Greens and Savage Fenty.
The brunch...
California Government
The California Black Media Political Playback – Assemblymember McKinnor ‘is Not Here for the BS’
Assemblymember Tina Mckinnor (D-Inglewood) says she is “not here for the B.S.”
“I’m here to build houses,” McKinnor said to rounds of applause from members...
Reparations
S.F. NAACP Clarifies Statement on $5M Payouts: Reparations Should Be Cash Payments, Plus ‘Investments’ | VIDEOs
*The San Francisco Branch of the NAACP is engaged in a public information blitz to clarify a press release it sent out urging the...
Black Excellence
Women’s History Month: Meet the Black Women Legislators Shaping California Policy
*Since Yvonne Braithwaite Burke became the first Black woman elected to serve in the California State Assembly in 1966, 20 other African women have...
Docuseries
OWN Announces ‘Time of Essence’: A 5-part Docuseries
*OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announces the imaginative new original docuseries, “Time of Essence,” a celebration of the trailblazing magazine that reaches a global community...
Steven Ivory
Steven Ivory: The Case For Optimism
*If you take nothing else from what you read here--if you get no further than this sentence--know that everything is going to be all...
Black Excellence
California Black Media Political Playback: Black Advocates Celebrate Women’s History Month
*March is Women's History Month, and several California organizations are celebrating trailblazing women making history in our state -- whether it’s recognizing the record-setting...
Local Government
Meet California’s Black Mayor: Acquanetta Warren of Fontana - Honorary NASCAR Official
*When the City of Fontana hosted NASCAR on Feb. 24, fourth-term Mayor Acquanetta Warren served as an honorary official for the final run of...
Love-Romance
Steven Ivory: Be Your Own Damn Valentine
*One Friday evening in 1971 after an exhausting day of class-cutting at Douglass High, I went with classmate Marvin Steele to his house. Marv’s...
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