Pretending We Don’t Know What We All Know
March 20, 2024
In a recent article it was revealed that Los Angeles County ex-Undersheriff Tim Murakami finally admitted he had a tattoo of a caveman on his ankle.
Breaking News
- LASAN Celebrates Earth Day 2025 With Free Community Event in Baldwin Hills
- Basketball Classic at John Muir High School Empowers Youth to Go to College
- Community Build Assembles Nonprofits to Secure Homes for Wildfire Survivors
- Black Babies Are Still Dying — And America Let It Happen
- Lakers Fall 117-95 in First Game of Playoffs
- Dodgers Drop Series to Cubs in 4-2 Loss
- Leslie Odom Jr. to reprise his Tony-winning role in ‘Hamilton’ this fall
- Reclaiming Mental Health in Communities of Color
Tony Wafford
I’m Doing It In Honor of My Mother
March 13, 2024
Last week, my team and I had the pleasure of visiting nine southern cities which included Jackson, MS, Little Rock, AR, Charlotte, NC, Greenville, SC, Atlanta, GA, Houston, TX, Birmingham, AL and Fort Lauderdale, FL. Our goal was to go into each of these cities and partner with local Black organizations to educate our people and to address the issue of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and to hopefully get our people involved in a new clinical trial to treat the disease.
February: Getting Back to Black
January 25, 2024
As we head into Black History Month, as Black people, let’s make February our beginning of the New Year or as a new beginning of thinking for ourselves, understanding ourselves (and America), leaning on and learning from our culture, and throughout the year, not to allow America’s fear (White fear) to be our Black reality.
I was Melanin Before I was American
January 11, 2024
2024 is going to be too important of an election year for us (the Black community) to say things like “them” and “they” when we all know just who and what we are talking about.
Let’s Just Try and Be Better
January 4, 2024
What would happen if this January we just say to ourselves, “I’m just going to try each day moving forward throughout 2024 to be a better person. I’m just going to try and be a better me.”
Thanks, Huntington Beach, for Reminding Me
December 28, 2023
The city of Huntington Beach’s majority Republican city council voted, that going into 2024, the beach city would not be celebrating Black History or Women’s History. I just wanted to say, “thank you Huntington Beach city council for being upfront about the way you feel about Black people.”
I Saw God, Faith, and Medicine in Action
November 23, 2023
Last week, I had an opportunity to see the power of God firsthand—had my faith tradition reinforced and saw the strength in medicine, all working together for the good!
Cussing Ain’t Okay
November 16, 2023
Please let me do this disclaimer before I state my case. I am a cusser in rehab, a 12-step program.
Why Does Black Hair Frighten Them So?
November 2, 2023
Isn’t it pathetic at best, and sick at its worse that Black people have to endure white-lash, being White-balled, or straight up punished because of our hair and the many different beautiful Black hairstyles that we wear? This sounds crazy when you hear it right? The proof in what I’m saying is the fact that right here in so-called liberal California we had to pass the CROWN Act which really should have been named the, “Is it OK for me to be Black Act?” The CROWN Act is an acronym for “Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair,” in
The Hypocrisy of a Party, a People, and Their Pulpit
October 19, 2023
I was sitting around a couple of weeks ago reading the paper, and for the first time I said, “Let me read about this issue of abortion.”
A Ram in the Bush and A Negro in the Cut
September 28, 2023
I know you’re wondering what I’m talking about. I’m talking about Joseph Abiodun Ladapo. Ladapo is the Surgeon General of Florida and Governor Ronald Dion DeSantis’ handpicked negro.
Weed and the Black Community: What’s Really Going On?
September 21, 2023
It was 5:30 am and I was taking my morning walk. As I got to the corner and was waiting for the light to change so I could safely cross the street, a car making a right turn with its windows down, bumping rap music — loud as hell and the smell of weed lit up the whole corner!
Still in the Struggle to Heal our Hearts, Minds, and Bodies
June 2, 2022
“Healing Our Hearts, Minds and Bodies” (HHMB) is a five-year grant aimed at improving cardiovascular health among men and women of color living with HIV.
Fade Out HIV: New Program Helps Barbers and Health Care Providers Tackle HIV in the Black Community
November 11, 2021
DKBmed, LLC a medical education company; HIV expert William D. King, MD; Tony Wafford of I Choose Life Foundation; and Tyrik Jackson, an award-winning barber, teacher, and social media influencer are coming together to fight HIV in the Los Angeles Black community with Fade Out HIV: Barber and Clinician Outreach.
The Vaccines: Will Black People be at the end of the Line?
February 12, 2021
During this Covid-19 watch, it seems that there is a tremendous amount of excitement in the news as vaccines move toward federal approval and all the different states racing and running to create plans for who should get the first doses and how the vaccines will be distributed. State and federal health officials have all agreed that front-line healthcare workers who have direct contact with COVID-19 patients should be the first vaccinated, which makes all the sense in the world. Then the conversation seems to be vaccinating seniors in nursing home facilities and those patients in long-term care facilities; and that also makes sense to me.