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Haitian American Artist Brings His Vision, Gift to State’s COVID Campaign - Los Angeles Sentinel
California’s “Your Actions Save Lives” art campaign recently unveiled two “Safety First” murals in San Francisco. The artworks, created by the Grammy-nominated visual artist Serge Gay Jr, were commissioned to encourage people to continue to take safety precautions against COVID-19 even though the
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Casting your ballot in a recall election is different from how you vote in regular elections. Understanding how to mark your ballot is important.
Breanna Reeves | The recall process requires California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley N. Weber to provide a certified list of candidates to the county elections officials by the 55th day before the recall election. Once candidates are certified, they will appear on the ballot. Ca
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PG&E Announces Major New Electric Infrastructure Safety Initiative to Protect Communities from Wildfire Threat
PG&E’s commitment represents the largest effort in the U.S. to underground power lines as a wildfire risk reduction measure. The post PG&E Announces Major New Electric Infrastructure Safety Initiative to Protect Communities from Wildfire Threat first appeared on Post News Group.
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100 Diverse-Owned Oakland Businesses Could Receive a $10,000 Grant from Comcast | Post News Group
Black, Indigenous, Hispanic and Asian American small business owners in Oakland can apply for a $10,000 grant from the Comcast RISE Investment Fund, which will issue 100 grants for a total of
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The Riverside County Grand Jury grappled with and reached a conclusion regarding the following, “Was the Riverside County November 2020 Consolidated General Election administered fairly and impartially?
S. E. Williams | “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” ― Geor
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Drake Buys Stake In Dave's Hot Chicken Restaurant Chain
Chart-topping rapper Drake is ready to take his net worth to new heights by taking a minority stake in Dave’s Hot Chicken. 
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The GOP Watchword on Kamala Harris, Attack, Attack, Attack.
It started almost the instant that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that California senator Kamala Harris was his VP pick in 2020.
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Let’s Talk Black Education
The honeymoon is over in communities where the Delta variant has taken hold. Since back to school, I’ve spent weeks filling in for principals, supervising children, checking children's temperatures and providing them masks, directing traffic in the parking lot, picking up garbage, wiping down
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Newsom to tenants: Free money, really.
(CALMATTERS) - Did you know that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget includes a $5.2 billion California rent relief program? Newsom wants to make sure that you do. In Bell Gardens on Wednesday, […] The post Newsom to tenants: Free money, really. appeared first on The Sacramento Observer.
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Coronavirus tracker: New cases in California total 23,027, up by 90% from previous week - L.A. Focus News
In California, 23,027 new cases of the coronavirus were reported July 10-16. That's a 90% increase in new cases from the previous week of 12,097, according to July 16 end-of-day totals on public health websites, bringing the total number of cases so far to 3,827,611. There were 194 new deaths
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Calif. Reps. Lee and Bass Are Pushing Bills to Probe COINTELPRO; Remove Hoover’s Name From FBI Building - L.A. Focus News
Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media California’s U.S. Congresswomen Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) and Karen Bass (D-CA-37) are backing legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to remove former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s name from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters in
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School Board Uproar After Teacher Said He Wanted To Make Students ‘Revolutionaries’
By A.V. Benford | OBSERVER Staff Writer A Natomas school board meeting erupted in hot emotion and was shut down abruptly by Superintendent Chris Evans last week. This came after […] The post School Board Uproar After Teacher Said He Wanted To Make Students ‘Revolutionaries’ appe
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Shape of P.G.’s Council Districts May Change
Changes in the Prince George’s County population could realign thousands of residents into new legislative districts. The exact number affected in the nine county council districts remains undetermined, but Prince George’s Redistricting Commission reviewed proposed maps during a Monday, July 19
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Africa: New Warning System to Sound Alarm On Rainforest 'Tipping Points'
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Rainforests are far more vulnerable than predicted in the past, researchers find, warning areas that are disturbed or fragmented lack resilience to climate warming and drought
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Elk Grove Unified School District Board of Education Meets September 21
The EGUSD Board of Education is scheduled to meet Tuesday, September 21 at 6 p.m. Among the issues planned for discussion is the implications of Board Policy 5132—Dress and Grooming […] The post Elk Grove Unified School District Board of Education Meets September 21 appeared fir
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California is running out of water
(CALMATTERS) - “The challenge is there is no water.” That bleak assessment from Karla Nemeth, director of the state Department of Water Resources, puts the devastating scope of California’s drought […] The post California is running out of water appeared first on The Sacramento
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Travis Scott Collaborates with Connected Cannabis to Launch a Weed Product, Cactus Farms
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Sacramento City Teacher’s Use Of N-Word Sparks Debate About Anti-Racist Training
By A.V. Benford | Observer Education Reporter Katherine Sanders said she wanted her 7th grade Spanish students at Kit Carson International Academy to “think about words that make things cheap.” […] The post Sacramento City Teacher’s Use Of N-Word Sparks Debate About Anti-Racist
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$46B Emergency Rental Assistance Delay Leaves 3.5 Million At Risk Of Eviction - The Seattle Medium
An estimated 3.5 million renters face the likelihood of eviction over the next two months – despite the availability of $46 billion in emergency rental assistance (ERA) allocated by
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Biden, Vax Americana, and What the Recall Could Mean in COVID-19 Wars | Post News Group
Masking works. You can see it working. Vaccines work too, but we’re on the honor system for that. And people lie or show a fake vax cards.  The post Biden, Vax Americana, and What the Recall Could Mean in COVID-19 Wars first appeared on Post News Group.
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‘I Don’t Feel Like I Did Anything Wrong’: Young Black Woman Faces Prison Time and Hate Crime Charge for Defacing ‘Back the Blue’ Sign In Front of Police Officer - The New York Beacon
A young Utah woman’s heated yet unthreatening response to an officer’s treatment of her and a friend landed her in jail. Nineteen-year-old Lauren Gibson and her friends were driving back to California from a camping trip in Panguitch, Utah, when the group was pulled over and
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LeBron James’ SpringHill Co. Reportedly Valued At $750 Million
SpringHill Co., the video production company founded by LeBron James and his best friend and longtime business partner Maverick Carter, is reportedly in talks with potential investors to sell a piece of the company that would amount to $750 million USD in valuation.
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Keeping it Real: Riverside County Sheriff's Dept., Local Agencies Seek an End to Its “Age of Impunity” - Black Voice News
S. E. Williams | “The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all—impunity.” Naomi Klein Late last week we learned members of the community are pushing for accountability of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Departmen
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California woman falsely accuses Black man of stealing son's phone at Walmart
A man named Ya’shear Bryant said that while he was shopping at a Walmart location in Moreno Valley, California, a... View Article The post California woman falsely accuses Black man of stealing son's phone at Walmart appeared first on TheGrio.
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Walgreens Exiting East Oakland Because Medicare and Medicaid Customers Don’t Generate Enough ‘Green’ for $140 Billion Corporation
The councilmembers of District 7 and District 6 joined with more than 2,500 neighborhood petitioners to condemn the less than one month
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Black Californians Are the Number One Target of Hate Crimes - L.A. Focus News
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Will Smith And Jada Pinkett Smith California House Caught Fire, Couple Doing ‘Fine’
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Cal AG Rob Bonta Hits Google With Lawsuit Over “Play Store”
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As LA County rekindles mask mandate, 1,827 new cases of COVID-19, 11 deaths posted Saturday - L.A. Focus News
Los Angeles County residents will awaken Sunday morning to revived face-covering rules, slated to go into effect late Saturday night amid newly surging coronavirus statistics. The county reported 1,827 new cases of COVID-19 and 11 additional deaths on Saturday, as health officials attributed the
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