Since nine people were gunned down in the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina allegedly by a 21-year-old white man tied to white supremacist groups, there have been a string of arson attacks on other black churches in the South. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, at least six predominantly black churches in […]
SAJI Yoga Mind Gem Today, I allow myself to practice the presence of God in my life. I now release outdated beliefs that stifle my growth and transformation. I forgive myself for judging the process of my life. Here and now, I openly embrace God’s love flowing through me as an expression of […]
Nana Gyamfi has been a human and civil rights attorney with a specialty in criminal defense since 1994. Nana graduated from Cornell University and earned her law degree from UCLA’s School of Law. In 1992, while still in law school, Nana worked with Chokwe Lumumba at the Black Law Institute and co-organized and directed the community organizing […]
Mark Ridley-Thomas has represented the nearly 2.3 million people of the Second District on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors since December 2008. During his first year in office, he shepherded through an agreement with the University of California to provide medical services at the new Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital, scheduled to open in […]
Dr. Ernie Smith received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Cal State University L.A. For two years, following his graduation, he worked in tele-communications as an assistant producer, at KTTV studios in Los Angeles. While working evenings as a volunteer at Operation Bootstrap, a South Central Los Angeles Community Social Service Organization, in 1970 he […]
WASHINGTON — The share of poor Americans who were uninsured declined substantially in 2014, according to the first full year of federal data since the Affordable Care Act extended coverage to millions of Americans last year. The drop was largely in line with earlier findings by private polling companies such as Gallup, but was significant […]
Dr. Nathan F. Rabb Jr. is a Traditional Naturopath, and his practice is dedicated to the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of his patients and to the field of holistic health. Dr. Rabb can be reached at Holistic Health Service, where high quality herbal combinations are manufactured specific to patients needs. He also provides […]
A group of political and religious leaders from Charleston, S.C., are headed to Columbia, the state’s capital, to call on lawmakers to remove the Confederate battle flag flying on the State House grounds. But even if they manage to gain the needed votes, it may be months before the flag actually comes down. Across the […]
Millions of African Americans will soon be able to trace their families through the era of slavery, some to the countries from which their ancestors were snatched, thanks to a new and free online service that is digitizing a huge cache of federal records for the first time. Handwritten records collecting information on newly freed […]
Marie Deary, is the Founder of Wealth Management Financial Advisors Inc. Marie specializes in credit restoration, loan modification and packaging, debt consolidation, SBA loan packaging, foreclosure prevention & management, and keeping our personal finance ships afloat in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, AIG, and Merrill Lynch in the on going saga of the current financial crisis. Wealth […]