March 2023 - Page 16 of 29 - The Westside Gazette

Historic Transaction Buried in Bureaucracy

March 15, 2023 Carma Henry 0

The research is copious and hard to refute that minority media ownership is dismally low and discrimination is prevalent and persistent in the media industry. Women and people of color who decide to make media their careers have fewer opportunities than their male or white peers. This lack of diversity and opportunity needs to change. A proposed transaction awaiting the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) approval for close to a year will significantly advance diversity and minority capacity in the media industry. […]

Civil Rights Activist Essie Berry Calls Out CVS Pharmacy for Sexual Harassment and Assault

March 15, 2023 Carma Henry 0

Civil Rights Activist Essie Berry, the widow of the late Fred “ReRun” Berry from the 1970’s sitcom What’s Happening, is stepping into the ring with CVS Pharmacy. She has filed a complaint on behalf of Ms. Deborah Johnson, an employee of CVS Pharmacy previously known as Savon Drugs Store, who has been employed since 1995. The incident of retaliation and discrimination took place when Ms. Johnson spoke out against the predator who committed sexual assault & harassment acts against her at the CVS Pharmacy located in Montclair, California. […]

Panel Backs Lowering Age to Buy Guns

March 15, 2023 Carma Henry 0

With backing from Speaker Paul Renner, a House panel on Monday approved a bill that would lower the minimum age from 21 to 18 to buy rifles and other long guns in Florida. […]

Democratic Georgia state Rep. Tish Naghise dies at age 59

March 15, 2023 Carma Henry 0

Kaleb McMichen, a spokesperson for House Speaker Jon Burns, said Naghise died Wednesday. Naghise died at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, where she had been hospitalized for several days, said Wan Smith, a friend and former coworker. No cause of death was given. […]

Auto Journalist and NNPA Columnist Frank Washington Dies

March 15, 2023 Carma Henry 0

According to his LinkedIn bio, Washington’s career gave him a unique view of media relations, public relations, event planning and publishing, the World Wide Web, editing, and reporting. […]

Bringing Historical Black Newspapers into the Digital age, Students Discover their Past.

March 15, 2023 Carma Henry 0

(Source PBS NEWS HOUR): Leona Lavong was looking for part-time work, preferably on her university’s campus, when she found something more: a window into Black American life across the decades. Lavong had “stumbled” into a […]

Deal That Could Increase Minority Media Ownership Hits ‘Brick Wall’

March 15, 2023 Carma Henry 0

A major acquisition that civil rights leaders and advocates for Black-owned media had hoped would increase media ownership, opportunity, and participation by African Americans and other minorities has apparently “hit a brick wall.” […]

Local News

The Women Behind the Black Press

March 15, 2023 Carma Henry 0

In the past few years, we’ve seen Ida B. Wells — one of the most prominent journalists, anti-lynching activists, and women’s rights activists in history — finally get the recognition she deserves. The Ida B. Wells Society was launched in 2016. In 2018, the New York Times belatedly ran an obituary about her. And in 2019, after a campaign by Wells’ great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, Chicago finally named a street after Wells. […]

Former Neo-Nazi Leader Jeff Schoep Reflects On His Turn Against White Supremacy

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By Bradley Martin When Jeff Schoep, former head of the violently antisemitic National Socialist Movement, speaks at a private Highland Park, Ill., residence on March 14, he intends to cite his life as a cautionary […]

ICYMI: Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Meets with Marjory Stoneman Douglas Survivors

March 15, 2023 Carma Henry 0

On Saturday, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords visited with survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Afterwards, Giffords Florida held a press conference with survivors Anthony Montalto (father of Gina Montalto) and Manny Oliver (father of Joaquin Oliver), as well as Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Congressman Jared Moskowitz, State Representative Christine Hunschofsky, and State Representative Dan Daley. […]