Category: Valleys

Bakersfield
James Luckey

OP-ED: Stop Corporate Consolidation Silencing Local Media Voices

Local journalism is indispensable to the protection of civil rights and equality for all Americans, and in particular for Black American communities and other communities of color across the nation. Local-owned news media is crucial to community empowerment and civic participation.

Los Angeles
Kathleen Untalan

It’s a Super Sunday for Seahawks

This year’s Super Bowl was defined by a smothering defensive performance, as Seattle’s “Dark Side” proved too much for a franchise once known as the NFL’s “Evil Empire.”

Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Alabama Prison Documentary ‘The Alabama Solution’ Earns Oscar Nomination

A documentary that puts Alabama prisons in the spotlight is now in the running for one of the most well-known, prestigious awards in Hollywood — an Oscar. Nominees for the 98th Academy Awards were announced Thursday. “The Alabama Solution” is one of five films nominated in the documentary feature film category.

Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Don Lemon Made the Headlines, but Georgia Fort’s Arrest Shows No Journalist Is Safe

Famed journalist Don Lemon may draw the headlines, but Emmy-winning independent reporter Georgia Fort and Trahem Jenn Crews and Jamael Lydell Lundy were also taken into custody as federal agents moved against four Black journalists whose only apparent offense was documenting protests critical of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

History Will Remember Who Spoke and Who Hid

America watched it happen in real time. Journalists were arrested for doing their jobs. Not in some distant dictatorship. Not under cover of night in a failed state. In the United States of America.

Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Grammys Open Black History Month as Michael Jackson’s Story Heads to the Big Screen

Sunday’s Grammy Awards opened Black History Month while also setting the tone for a year that will once again bring Michael Jackson to the forefront of popular culture. When Jackson made history in 1984, winning eight Grammys for the Thriller album, the awards field was far more limited than it is today. With the dramatic expansion of Grammy categories since then, it is not difficult to imagine that a release of that scale in the current era could have produced well over a dozen wins from an even larger number of nominations. More than forty years later, the King of Pop is preparing to command attention again, this time through a major motion picture.