Cora Jackson-Fossett

Cora is the Managing Editor and Religion Editor for the Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper. She retired in 2014 from the City of Los Angeles after serving 15 years as public affairs director for the Department of Public Works.

Black Culture Activity Boxes for Kids in Time For Holidays

This holiday season you can give children ages four and over the gift of learning more about Black Culture. Two Los Angeles based moms, Dr. Anndretta Lyle and Stacy Kirk, who are experts in cultural education and technology respectively, have come together with a solution called Thrive Culture Box.

‘The Rebel Girls’ Celebrates African American Female Resilience 

“The Rebel Girls” has done the hard work to snag a possible short list consideration for Best Short Narrative Film at the 97th Academy Awards, which will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025.  The film is actively striving to be shortlisted with the official Oscar shortlist to be announced on December 17.

Nikki Giovanni, Poet And Literary Celebrity, Passes Away at 81

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died.