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As Californians spend a lot of time online, they may not realize how vulnerable they are to data breaches, say experts California’s new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, or DROP, gives residents a free, centralized way to tell hundreds of registered data brokers to delete their personal information and stop selling it, as state officials warn that identity theft, scams and large-scale data brea...

About CalKIDS The California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program (CalKIDS) was launched in 2022 by the State of California with a clear mission: to help jumpstart college savings for children statewide by awarding scholarship accounts to youth across the state. Administered by the ScholarShare Investment Board, CalKIDS takes the initiative by automatically offering children born in Cal...

California’s winning strategy of using the trusted messengers for its California Connects regional convenings was the magic touch; over 300 community leaders, nonprofit groups and organizations, ethnic and community media outlets were the trusted messengers who met in Sacramento, CA, April 23 to get some tools and tips to stay healthy and financially equipped.  As previously stated by key state an...

The California Connects Regional Convenings , an 8-city statewide tour launched in late 2025 by the Office of Community Partnerships & Strategic Communications (OCPSC)  to connect local leaders, nonprofits, and community partners directly with state agencies, aimed to strengthen regional networks and provide tools for community resilience.  News producer and host, Julia Ann Dudley Najieb, talk...

The  California Complete Count Census 2020 was a revived, every-10-year process experiment that proved one thing: trusted messengers were the key to reaching "hard-to-count" populations throughout California. That is why the state invested over $187 million in that effort that panned out. The state stayed away from federal top-down messaging as well as going beyond legacy media. Ethnic media playe...

 As nanoplastics has evaded every aspect of life, people are beginning to understand the necessary emergency to find a way to mitigate the dangerously evasive electric, particles Join news producer host, Julia Dudley Najieb for a two-night "ONME Environmental Awareness Film Discussion" featuring the film in two parts, "Nanoplastics: Threat to Life." After each film part, news host Dudley Najieb sp...

 As nanoplastics has evaded every aspect of life, people are beginning to understand the necessary emergency to find a way to mitigate the dangerously evasive electric, particles Join news producer host, Julia Dudley Najieb for a two-night "ONME Environmental Awareness Film Discussion" featuring the film in two parts, "Nanoplastics: Threat to Life." After each film part, news host Dudley Najieb sp...

In late 2025, California's housing market is characterized by a forecast for increased home sales and inventory, a modest rise in median home prices, and continued affordability challenges, though buying conditions may be more favorable around mid-October due to an anticipated dip in mortgage rates and increased active listings. 

Take a look at the FREE Kwanzaa events happening throughout California for the 2023 year ...

Check out the latest California news headlines with news producer host, Julia Dudley Najieb, who reviews the top stories from June 21, 2023 to September 22, 2023: from the Bitwise Industries corporate scandal and Antioch & Pittsburgh police officers' scandals to the illegal infectious disease lab found in Reedley, Dudley Najieb goes into details on key stories that made it nationwide and world...

Check out the latest California news headlines with news producer host, Julia Dudley Najieb, who reviews the top stories from June 21, 2023 to September 22, 2023: from the Bitwise Industries corporate scandal and Antioch & Pittsburgh police officers' scandals to the illegal infectious disease lab found in Reedley, Dudley Najieb goes into details on key stories that made it nationwide and world...

California Governor Gavin Newsom made an interim appointment October 1, replacing the late U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein's seat with 44-year-old Laphonza Butler. However, this appointment complicates an already complex campaign, according to CalMatters: For one thing, there will be a special election to decide who serves the final two months of Feinstein’s term, and it will be held at the same tim...

Check out the upcoming early fall events happening throughout California for the remainder of 2023 Looking for some events to go to during the early fall months while the weather is tolerable in California? Then check out the events happening below throughout the state.

As California’s senior Senator and the longest-serving woman senator ever since her election to the Senate in 1992, Democrat Dianne Feinstein, the 90-year-old senior senator from California, died on Sept. 28, 2023 in Washington, D.C. She was born in San Francisco, CA, June 22, 1933.

Images of orange groves and Spanish-themed hotels with palm tree gardens filled countless pamphlets and articles promoting Southern California and Florida in the late 19th century, promising escape from winter’s reach. This vision of an “American Italy” captured hearts and imaginations across the U.S. In it, Florida and California promised a place in the sun for industrious Americans to live the g...

The company behind the '"illegal lab" in Reedley also operated for several years in the city of Fresno incognito ... Ever since local online, Central Valley news outlet, Mid Valley Times, posted a peculiar news report on July 25 about a code-enforcement check-up revealing an illegal lab, in the predominantly agricultural city of Reedley, Calif., owned by a man who lives in China, more interesting...

Southern California residents have been warned to evacuate; see which areas SACRAMENTO, Calif.--The National Weather Service is warning that severe tropical weather could impact several parts of California starting this weekend. In advance of the storm, residents are urged to stay away from parks, deserts, waterways and off-roadways, and anticipate power outage and water shut offs. With the possib...

Produced by AMPTV, this over 2-hour special celebrating Juneteenth reviews the important points in history in the Anti-Slavery Movement, the Civil War, the history behind Juneteenth, as well as reflecting on abolitionists and historical figures such as, Phyllis Wheatley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and former slave, Laura Small...

Checkout the latest Juneteenth events happening throughout California!

Show host Julia Dudley Najieb closes out Herstory Month reviewing notable greats honored by the California legislature,followed by an overview report from a call with over 60 ethnic media and Gov. Gavin Newsom. Dudley Najieb will do a longer follow-up in longer show next week, News Too Real , Friday, April 7, 2023.

Fresno parents and teachers were struggling to help their children and themselves deal with loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic In "Brewing Within" episode 5, ONME News , Julia Dudley Najieb talks to a parent who resides in Fresno County where her son was transitioning from eighth grade to the ninth grade -- in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. She found some workable solutions, as well as...

Dr. Weber takes her oath of office to serve as California's first elected Black secretary of state This 2022 election marks several, notable, historical first among Black candidates now serving in very powerful positions in California's legislature as elected officials. ONME News first noted that former congresswoman, Karen Bas s, became the second Black elected-mayor of Los Angeles but the first...

Check out the latest MLK events happening throughout southern California.

Check out the latest MLK events happening throughout northern California.

Administrator Tracey E. Jenkins of Tulare City School District explains what happened to them during the pandemic and how they are succeeding through the aftermath. In "Brewing Within" episode 4, it explains in three parts the challenges that administrators, parents and teachers went through during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. In episode 4 part 1, ONME News , Julia Dudley Najieb has a candid,...