Long-standing community concert returns for its 22nd installment featuring some of the most prolific names in jazz and R&B.
We can each be part of the change by asking for help when we need it, and making sure our friends and family do the same.
I’m a doctor and a scientist. When we’re looking to solve a problem, we’re a lot like detectives. We follow the evidence.
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the first week of March as Women’s History Week. Seven years later, Congress declared the entire month of March as Women’s History Month. I find it sadly ironic that we need legislative reminders to celebrate and remember the accomplishments of various people and communities. However, I am grateful that the work of women is being celebrated nonetheless! Across the country, March 8thhas been designated as, “International Women’s Day” where people celebrate and honor women worldwide.
Nearly 1,200 people came to celebrate the many ways that civic engagement can transform communities for the better during the 27th Annual Empowerment Congress Summit on Jan. 19, during the Martin Luther King Jr., weekend.
This November we have a chance to participate in our democracy and make it more just.
Universal health coverage will be an important topic of discussion in the run-up to the mid-term elections this November
I recently joined a gathering of Black women leaders in Sacramento to discuss the well-being of Black women in California. It was a pretty amazing feeling to be in a roomful of women leaders from across the state—elected officials, business leaders, non-profit leaders and policymakers—who looked like me, all having this kind of discussion together. It doesn’t happen often enough. The event coincided with the release of a report that highlights some striking disparities in the lives of Black women. Black women have one of the highest workforce participation rates of any population group, with more than 60 percent employed,