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What is Stopping You from Achieving Your Best Season?Top of Form
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What is Stopping You from Achieving Your Best Season?Top of Form

Wendy GladneySeptember 18, 2024

I enjoy the various seasons throughout the year and I like them for different reasons. We are about to embark on Fall also known as Autumn, which symbolizes change. Fall can mean many things to different people, but it represents harvest time where we reap the rewards from the hard work, we put in the seasons prior.   It also represents maturity.  Those of us who are in the “fall” season of our lives have gone through many lessons to reach maturity and hopefully acquired some wisdom along the way. Part of that wisdom is learning when to let some things

Concerning Whites’ Current and Historical Hating on Haiti; Unforgivable Blackness of Liberation, Resistance and Radical Refusal 
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Concerning Whites’ Current and Historical Hating on Haiti; Unforgivable Blackness of Liberation, Resistance and Radical Refusal 

Dr. Maulana KarengaSeptember 18, 2024

The most recent fabricated, false and fear-mongering ranting by Trump, Vance and various other MAGA advocates and allies, claiming Haitian immigrants are eating White peoples’ pets is another Hitlerian lie that has its roots and twisted rationale in the social virus and pathology of anti-Black racism. Like all viruses and opportunistic and persistent pathologies of the heart, mind and body, it attacks most viciously the weak and vulnerable.  

Community Leaders and Organizations Unite to Express Gratitude for Senator Steven Bradford’s Continued Commitment to Positive Change
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Community Leaders and Organizations Unite to Express Gratitude for Senator Steven Bradford’s Continued Commitment to Positive Change

Barbara StantonSeptember 18, 2024

In response to recent negative press surrounding the California Legislative Black Caucus’s Reparations proposal, community leaders and non-profit organizations across District 35 have come together to voice their unwavering support and gratitude for Senator Steven Bradford’s dedication to improving the lives of underserved communities. This press release serves to address the misrepresentation of facts and to highlight the profound impact Senator Bradford has made throughout his tenure.   

What About Poor People?
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What About Poor People?

Tony R. Wafford, Contributing Opinion WriterSeptember 13, 2024

I see four classes of people.  I see poor people, people doing a little better than others (on the outside), people doing well and those that are grossly wealthy.  

Capital One-Discover Merger Could Transform Communities of Color
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Capital One-Discover Merger Could Transform Communities of Color

Marty Shelton, Contributing Opinion WriterSeptember 13, 2024

Capital One’s ambitious community benefits plan (CBP) valued at over $265 billion, set to be rolled out over the next five years, is nothing short of a miracle for small businesses and those who have long been shut out of the financial sector.

Get Real! Focus on Reality!
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Get Real! Focus on Reality!

Jeanette ParkerSeptember 11, 2024

You know… people laugh and talk and play music and have fun. And there is time for joy and happiness. Optimistically, some think that is the reality of life. If someone is laughing a lot, one might think they must know what they are talking about.  

Honoring Us’ 236 Seasons of Struggle: Notes on Revolution from a 1960s Lecture 
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Honoring Us’ 236 Seasons of Struggle: Notes on Revolution from a 1960s Lecture 

Dr. Maulana KarengaSeptember 11, 2024

In the midst of a system of oppression that would deny us recognition, rights and respect, we stand up to recognize and praise ourselves and declare our right to self-determination, self-respect and self-defense in pursuit of Black Power over our destiny and daily lives. And we dare to practice each of these in revolutionary defiance of our oppressor and our oppression.  

Do You Know a Shooting Star? 
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Do You Know a Shooting Star? 

Wendy GladneySeptember 11, 2024

There is a children’s song about friendship that shares the importance of making new friends but keeping the old for some are silver and others are gold. What is interesting about these lyrics is that we must value those who come into our lives and remember they are valuable, but some hold a special place in our hearts and lives forever.  

Why Californians Must Reject Proposition 36 This November
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Why Californians Must Reject Proposition 36 This November

Eric Harris Special to California Black Media PartnersSeptember 4, 2024

In November, voters have a crucial opportunity to reject Proposition 36, a misguided effort backed by major law enforcement associations and some players in the corporate retail lobby that will make our communities less safe.

A Mo Better Union
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A Mo Better Union

Tony WaffordSeptember 4, 2024

You know what’s deep to me?  The way we (most people) just repeat stuff without even thinking about what’s being said.  Take for instance the “More Perfect Union” people.  

The Unfinished Promise of America Top of Form
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The Unfinished Promise of America Top of Form

Wendy GladneySeptember 4, 2024

There are a lot of unfinished or unfulfilled promises we experience during our lifetime, but one promise we all hope to achieve is that America will live up to the hopes and dreams of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence for all mankind.  Although this country belonged to the Native Americans before anyone ever crossed the ocean to so call discover it, immigrants have been coming here for generations hoping for a better life for themselves and their families.