Category: Valleys

Los Angeles
Kathleen Untalan

Hayes Earns Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week

facebooktwitterinstagram Michigan junior running back Justine Hayes was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week after a dominant performance in the Wolverines’ 31–20

Los Angeles
Kathleen Untalan

Tough Time for Bruins

facebooktwitterinstagram The UCLA Bruins (3–5, 3–2 Big Ten) endured a rough night in Bloomington, falling 56–6 to the No. 2–ranked Indiana Hoosiers last week. Indiana

Los Angeles
Kathleen Untalan

Chargers Rout Vikings on TNF

facebooktwitterinstagram The Los Angeles Chargers rolled over the Minnesota Vikings 37–10 on Thursday Night Football last week to earn their fifth win of the season,

Los Angeles
Kathleen Untalan

Former Bruin Marcedes Lewis Signs with Broncos

facebooktwitterinstagram The Denver Broncos are signing 41-year-old tight end Marcedes Lewis to their practice squad, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Former PACKER tight end Marcedes

Local
Stefi Mar

Los Angeles Urban League State of Black LA 2025

There was an adrenaline rush, or buzz, around the campus of USC on Thursday, October 16, 2025. This wasn’t the typical energy associated with a sporting event. Fight On!

Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Trump’s “Beautiful Black Women” Lie and the Complicity That Betrays Us

Donald Trump’s claim that “beautiful Black women” were begging him to come to Chicago was not flattery. It was a lie that weaponized race and gender to mask a long record of cruelty and contempt. It was a performance designed to seduce the uninformed and comfort those willing to excuse his open assault on the people he pretends to praise.

Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

The Lie About Immigrants and America’s Debt to Them 

There is a lie moving through America. It creeps through congressional halls and across television screens, whispering that undocumented immigrants live freely off the sweat of the American taxpayer. It is a lie told by those who know better and repeated by those who are too ignorant—or too hateful—to care. And while the lie spreads, the truth is being brutalized on the streets.

Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

Report Warns about Shifting Racial Job Trends Across the Nation

A new report from the Brookings Institution warns that the nation’s job market may be entering a period of instability that could worsen racial and economic disparities. While the overall unemployment rate held steady between June 2024 and June 2025, joblessness among Black workers rose by more than half a percent.

Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

A Supreme Fight Over Voting Rights

Janai Nelson, President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Head of Counsel for the organization, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for the civil rights stance of leaving Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act untouched. Spencer Overton, a professor at George Washington University, was in the High Court when the arguments took place over Louisiana v Callais. Overton proudly emphasized that “Jaina [Nelson] was basically like Bruce Lee taking on everybody.”

African Americans
Stefi Mar

High Court Weighs Decision That Could Silence Black Voters Nationwide

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a case that could decide the future of voting rights in America. At the heart of Louisiana v. Callais is whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting, remains constitutional. The outcome could strip away one of the last remaining protections for Black voters since the Civil Rights Movement and embolden efforts already underway in states like North Carolina, where Republicans are pushing new gerrymandered maps that would silence voters and cement partisan control.

Bakersfield
Stefi Mar

The New Normal: Racism Without Consequence

They laughed about gas chambers. They mocked Black people as “monkeys” and “the watermelon people.” They joked about rape, slavery, and “fixing the showers” to suit the “Hitler aesthetic.” These weren’t anonymous extremists on the internet. They were rising Republican leaders — state chairs, vice chairs, campaign strategists, and even staffers with ties to Donald Trump’s administration — plotting their path to power while spewing messages of hate.