Tag: Tony Thurmond
California Primary ’22: Black Candidates Advancing to the Nov. General Elections
California Black Media (CBM) reports that 68 Black candidates are running in 45 of the elections. That is 31% of the races. Blacks make...
MLK Jr. Freedom Center Delegation in Sacramento to Advocate for Civics Education
By Black Press USA
Twenty-five high school age students and staff of the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center in Oakland spent the day in...
State Ed Chief Thurmond Is Piecing Together the Future of California’s Post-Pandemic Education
By Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media
For Tony Thurmond, California’s African American State Superintendent of Public Instruction, American public education will never...
CA Democrats Endorse Three Black Candidates for Statewide Offices
This weekend, the California Democratic Party, for the first time in state history, endorsed three Black candidates for statewide office at the same convention.
By...
Gov. Newsom Signs 46 Bills, Part of $123.9 Billion Education Plan
By Joe W. Bowers Jr., California Black Media
During the final week before the Oct. 10 deadline for signing bills passed by the State Legislature...