Last week, Sen. Steve Bradford (D-Inglewood), vice-chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) joined his colleague, Sen. Dave Cortese (D-Los Gatos), on an online panel with social justice advocates to denounce the wage increase the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR) recently instituted.
A provision in President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan will benefit community news publishers across the United States by providing a tax credit that rewards local news organizations for employing journalists.
Dr. Warren, who accepted his prestigious award virtually while battling an illness, has remained a steady hand among the more than 230 African American publishers and media company owners who are members of the Black Press of America.
Starting this month, over a dozen California African American-owned-and-operated news outlets – including the Los Angles Sentinel, the Oakland Post, the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, the Sacramento Observer, the Inland Valley’s Black Voice News and the San Francisco Sun Reporter – will publish in-print and online a quarterly column Gov. Gavin Newsom writes to inform Californians about important policy issues impacting them.