Opinion Archives - Black Voice News https://blackvoicenews.com/category/opinion/ The Voice of the Black Community in California Wed, 03 Jul 2024 01:16:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blackvoicenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-BVN_logo_square-32x32.png Opinion Archives - Black Voice News https://blackvoicenews.com/category/opinion/ 32 32 182193136 OpEd: Democrats Stay the Course with Biden and Harris https://blackvoicenews.com/2024/07/02/president-biden-debate-jim-crow/ Tue, 02 Jul 2024 18:30:00 +0000 https://blackvoicenews.com/?p=244599 VP Kamala Harris, Hardy Brown and Cheryl Brown at the Black Voice News office 2011.

President Biden's debate performance was compared to Moses' conversation with God in Exodus 4:10-17, and Hardy Brown, Sr. shared his personal experience of life under Jim Crow laws and the importance of having the right people speaking for you.

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OpEd: Juneteenth: How & Why this US Holiday is Being Celebrated https://blackvoicenews.com/2024/06/19/juneteenth-history-culture-emancipation/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 20:11:49 +0000 https://blackvoicenews.com/?p=244454 President Joe Biden, joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, lawmakers and guests, signs the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act Bill on Thursday, June 17, 2021, in the East Room of the White House.

Juneteenth is a US holiday commemorating the end of slavery in Texas in 1865, and was made a federal holiday in 2021 to celebrate African-American freedom, culture, and empowerment, as well as to remind of the ongoing racial inequality in the US.

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OpEd: On Juneteenth Let Us Remember, Racial Terror Did Not End with Slavery https://blackvoicenews.com/2024/06/17/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:55:26 +0000 https://blackvoicenews.com/?p=244418

Dr. Tiffany Crutcher, a descendant of a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is leading the movement to create a national monument to recognize and restitution for the destruction of Greenwood District, a thriving Black community.

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OpEd: Disenfranchising San Bernardino’s Sixth Ward Through The City Manager Search https://blackvoicenews.com/2024/05/21/san-bernardino-city-hall-investigation/ Tue, 21 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000 https://blackvoicenews.com/?p=244220

The JL Group investigation report found that San Bernardino City Hall intentionally excluded Councilmember Kim Calvin from providing input into the qualification criteria for the selection of the new city manager, which is tantamount to taxation without representation and disenfranchisement of Blacks and the Westside community.

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OpEd: San Bernardino’s  Bogus Censure that Maligns and Disenfranchises Councilmember Kim Calvin and the Black Community https://blackvoicenews.com/2024/05/14/san-bernardino-councilmember-censure/ Tue, 14 May 2024 22:24:20 +0000 https://blackvoicenews.com/?p=244141 San Bernardino Councilmember Kimberly Calvin.

San Bernardino Councilmember Kim Calvin was censured for allegedly leaking information from Closed Session meetings, despite the fact that three other councilmembers are named in a $2 million claim against the city.

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Op Ed: Dual Enrollment – A Gateway to Empowerment for African American Students https://blackvoicenews.com/2024/01/28/african-american-dual-enrollment/ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:04:25 +0000 https://blackvoicenews.com/?p=242952 The Dual Enrollment education program allows high schoolers to experience college-level courses.

Dual enrollment programs offer African American students an invaluable head start, providing them with an opportunity to experience college-level coursework, empowering them to overcome educational disparities and ensuring access to higher education for all.

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OpEd: San Bernardino 6th Ward Councilmember Kimberly Calvin Faces Political Hit Piece https://blackvoicenews.com/2023/12/13/san-bernardino-councilmember-kim-calvin/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:08:05 +0000 https://blackvoicenews.com/?p=242440 As the 2024 election year approaches, San Bernardino Councilmember Ted Sanchez appears willing to undermine his peer, Assemblymember Kimberly Calvin, in a game of political dirty tricks.

A city-funded political hit piece on Councilwoman Kim Calvin, who is Black and articulate, is being released without her knowledge and is attempting to remove her from representing her ward, despite her passion for addressing the needs of her community.

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Op Ed: The Success of Community-Centered Strategies in Reducing Crime and Violence https://blackvoicenews.com/2023/10/19/community-centered-public-safety-investment/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 20:30:32 +0000 https://blackvoicenews.com/?p=241620 Communities are boldly asserting what they need to be safe—and building solutions to achieve it thanks to the historical recent investments in community-centered public safety.

Community-centered public safety initiatives are producing tangible reductions in violence, but our investment in these transformative strategies has not matched their potential, and we must prioritize and invest in holistic, non-punitive strategies to achieve safety in all of our communities.

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Op Ed – Juneteenth: Remembering Freedom’s Promise https://blackvoicenews.com/2023/06/19/op-ed-juneteenth-remembering-freedoms-promise/ Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:34:37 +0000 https://blackvoicenews.com/?p=240417

Natasha McPherson The Juneteenth holiday marks the public commemoration of slavery’s abolition in the United States.  Since the end of the Civil War, Black folks have gathered annually to remember […]

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