Action Required: Medi-Cal Renewal Process Is Underway Across California
McKenzie Jackson California Black Media Californians enrolled in Medi-Cal should keep an eye out for a yellow envelope in their mailbox over the next 14 months. The Medi-Cal eligibility of over 15.4...
View ArticleOP-ED: The Obesity Crisis Is Not a Hopeless Fight for Black America
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. Whether we accept it or not, obesity continues to be a complex, chronic disease that kills thousands of Black Americans every year. Indeed, nearly half of Black Americans...
View ArticleOP-ED: The Obesity Crisis Is Not a Hopeless Fight for Black America
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. Whether we accept it or not, obesity continues to be a complex, chronic disease that kills thousands of Black Americans every year. Indeed, nearly half of Black Americans...
View ArticleHospital Closures, Cuts in Services Loom for Some Communities. How the State...
By Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Five months after declaring a fiscal emergency and predicting that they’d run out of funds by early this year, officials at San Benito County’s only hospital said they have...
View ArticleThe Case Against SB357: Black, Vulnerable and Trafficked
PART 7 – Not all Sexual Exploitation is Equal and Black Girls Get the Worst of It By Tanya Dennis and Vanessa Russell Facts and reality establish that passing SB 357 and similar legislation harms...
View ArticleMarin’s Approach on Mental Health: Increase Awareness to Decrease Stigma
Marin HHS and partners offer educational events throughout May San Rafael, CA — Local and global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, household economic instability, racial inequality, wars abroad,...
View ArticleTask Force Recommends Breast Cancer Screening Should Begin at Age 40
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia According to a new draft recommendation statement, the US Preventive Services Task Force proposes that women with an...
View ArticlePublic Health Officer Sounds Alarm on Rising Rates of Syphilis in Women,...
By Bay City News Sonoma County is seeing “alarming” increases in congenital syphilis and is urging pregnant residents to access prenatal care as soon as possible and asking care providers to increase...
View ArticleAs Rising Seas Disrupt Toxic Sites, Communities of Color Are at Most Risk
By Kara Manke UC Berkeley News As rising seas threaten to flood hundreds of toxic sites along the California coast, the risk of flood-related contamination will fall disproportionately on the state’s...
View ArticleMayor Breed’s Statement on the Partnership With the State to Disrupt Fentanyl...
San Francisco — Today Mayor London N. Breed released the following statement about Governor Newsom’s commitment to support addressing fentanyl trafficking in San Francisco. The Governor released more...
View ArticleJamie Foxx Reportedly Recovering At Rehabilitation Center
Jamie Foxx is reportedly recovering at a rehabilitation center in Chicago. Foxx’s family members were photographed arriving at the rehabilitation center this week, according to TMZ. On May 12, Foxx’s...
View ArticleAmbitious New Initiative Strives To Dismantle The Poverty Trap In Memphis
By David Waters Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children’s Zone, addressed in a launch of More for Memphis, an ambitious community development initiative to improve social and economic...
View ArticleOP-ED: Why Are We Leaving Black Women’s Health Behind?
By Dr. Donna Christensen, Debra Fraser-Howze, Shavon Arline-Bradley Although Black women make up 7.7% of the total U.S. population, we have the highest rates of obesity in the country. Sixty percent of...
View ArticleRise in Abductions of Black Girls in Oakland Alarms Sex-Trafficking Survivors
By Tanya Dennis Within the last 30 days there have been seven attempted kidnappings or successful abductions of Black girls in Oakland. Survivors of human trafficking who are now advocates are not...
View ArticleParent Complaints of Moldy Lunches at Duncanville Middle School
By Raven Jordan | Dallas Weekly In a photo shared earlier this month in a Facebook post, a parent complained of moldy lunch items being served to her daughter at a Duncanville middle school. The...
View ArticleNew Study Reveals Excess Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost Among the...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia A new study shows that after some progress, the number of deaths and years of possible life lost among America’s Black...
View ArticleWarnock drops by Southside Medical Center, talks insulin price stability
By Donnell Suggs | The Atlanta Voice Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga) visited Southside Medical Center Monday, May 22. Warnock. The junior senator and senior pastor at historic Ebenezer Baptist Church...
View ArticleA President for Every American
OP-ED: A President for Every American By Congressman James E. Clyburn In his January 20, 2021, inaugural address, President Joe Biden pledged an administration that looks like America and to “fight as...
View ArticleVice President Harris Talks Debt Ceiling, Maternal Health, and Small Biz in...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Vice President Kamala Harris was as integral to the negotiations as anyone else in helping to reach a bipartisan deal so...
View ArticleThe National Disgrace of Maternal Mortality
By Barrington M. Salmon | NNPA Newswire The National Center for Health Statistics released data several months ago showing that maternal deaths in the United States spiraled to the highest rate in...
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