Wrapping up the 17th Silicon Valley African Film Festival, founder Chike Nwoffiah spoke with Bakersfield News Observer writer Cecil Egbele about the submission selection process, where African Americans fit in an “African” festival, and this year’s Icon Award.
For generations, the Black church has passed the offering plate to keep the lights on, pay the preacher, help the poor and carry the Gospel beyond its walls. But what happens when the preacher leaves the sanctuary, takes a popular Christian podcast on tour — and charges admission?
Beatriz Monsivais turns a childhood passion into a 20-year banking legacy of trust, mentorship, and community impact at Springhill State Bank
Rhonda Haymon is a Deputy Public Defender with the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office and a candidate for Los Angeles County Superior Court, Office No. 64, on the Nov. 3 ballot.
Assembly Bill (AB) 2599, the Truth in Disclosure Act, authored by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Ladera Heights), was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, making California the first state in the nation to require large corporations to disclose historical and financial ties to chattel slavery.
California is adding new anti-hate training requirements for elected officials and some private sector employees after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills aimed at strengthening how government agencies and employers respond to hate speech and bias.
Under a lime-green canopy, a 70-year-old steel drummer, Prince Bernard, in a straw hat and beads, worked a pair of gleaming steel pans, serenading passersby. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago and now based in Los Angeles, the traveling musician was one small part of a fair that, for 12 days, offered something for nearly everyone.
She knew she was Nigerian. She knew she was Black American. What she didn’t know was how far back the stories on both sides of her family could take her.
I hope on Labor Day you honored the value of a good day’s work–and reflected on the thing that could eliminate a lot of jobs.
Two gallons of blood, maybe three, have been removed. No lie. You’ve laid on tables, slid through machines, been scanned so much you lost count and finally, your doctors have a diagnosis. As in the new book “Curved Air” by Kevin Davies, you have hope there’s a what next?
A federal judge in July gave digital equity advocates a partial victory against President Donald Trump, stopping his attempt to unilaterally kill a multibillion-dollar grant program Congress created.
In a neighborhood where conversations about food insecurity often center on scarcity, Philadelphia’s Tindley Tea Cafe offers a different narrative: abundance with purpose.
Angela Hagler’s Shafter townhome, about 13 miles outside Bakersfield, includes basic household furnishings, other than a bench in the living room the 57-year-old uses to lift her 16-year-old granddaughter into a bathtub specially outfitted for amputees.
By the time a street medicine team met Alfred Flores last June along the Los Angeles River , two spider bites on his back had swollen with infection, untreated for three days.
Bolanle Ambonisye knew she had stumbled onto something when parents began using her name to get their children to behave.
Assemblymember Corey A. Jackson is my friend. An outspoken advocate for equity, fairness, public health, and social service resources for our Inland Valley community, I have come to admire and respect Jackson’s grit and his work as a legislator. However, I don’t always agree with his political or policy positions.
I wonder if “quiet” is the right reference here. Maybe it’s more a particular kind of “grief?” In Kern County, Dolly Parton is being mourned as much for her philanthropy and impact on children as she is for her worldwide impact on music and bridging cultures.
James E. West co-invented the electret microphone at Bell Labs more than 60 years ago. Today his design sits inside roughly 90 percent of the two billion microphones made every year — including the one in your hand.
Stephen A. Smith rarely struggles for words. One of the most recognizable voices in sports media, he has built a career on passionate opinions and unfiltered commentary. But when ESPN parted ways with Ryan Clark, Smith’s reaction was strikingly simple.
Each August, communities from Oakland to the East Coast mark a commemoration that began in 1979 among incarcerated men at San Quentin — a tradition rooted in the deaths of George and Jonathan Jackson, and in a history that remains fiercely contested.
