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In this episode of KMER 87, producer host Ken McCoy reviews BET's 2021 Soul Train Awards, with special highlights of singer-songwriter producer, Maxwell, who received the Legend Award, followed by multi-platinum singer-songwriter, Ashanti who received the "Lady of Soul" Award.

McCoy talks about upcoming Super Bowl LVI halftime show, Sunday, Feb. 13 featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige.

Also, Jaime Foxx is coming back in Electro Franchise as a superhero.

McCoy reminds us of the importance of November as Child Safety & Prevention Month.

Movie trailers featured include: Warning and The Harder They Fall.

Here are the latest California headlines:

News & Coffee Episode 18: Murphy talks California Texans, redistricting, and a song for everything

Catch up with the latest November events and the last 'Keeping It Honest and Real' episode 8

ONME TOP 10: Here are some self-care activities for better mental health

Watch last episode of 'Keeping It Honest and Real on COVID-19' from the Black church perspective

Watch 'News Too Real: Child Tax-Credit Updates and Consumer Fraud Protection Part 2'

Watch 'News Too Real: Child Tax-Credit Updates and Consumer Fraud Protection Part 1'

Government imposters and fake COVID cures – How scammers rip off communities of color

Community organizations release ‘People’s Map’ amid growing concern of partisanship in Orange Count

Oakland selected as inaugural city in national effort to close the 'digital divide' for good

Fresno, CA voters voice budget preferences concerning cannabis and transportation tax revenues

Join show host Joquoya Murphy with the latest headlines, social media finds and Black businesses finds.

Check out the latest events happening throughout California!

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In this episode of News Too Real: Child Tax-Credit Updates and Consumer Fraud Protection Part 2, producer host Julia Dudley Najieb features Federal Trade Commission (FTC) experts Monica Vaca and Rosario Mendez. The FTC recently released a full report called “Serving Communities of Color.” The report reveals differences in the way that fraud and other consumer problems affect communities of color.

The FTC expert speakers highlight how majority Latino and Black communities report more issues with car buying, banks and lenders, credit issues and debt collection than do white communities. They also review fraud cases the FTC has one for the public over the last five years where the unlawful conduct either targeted or disproportionately affected communities of color.

In this episode of News Too Real: Child Tax-Credit Updates and Consumer Fraud Protection Part 1, producer host Julia Dudley Najieb features IRS representative Susan Simon and Kenneth Corbin.
Corbin reviews the expanded child tax credit payments for children 17 years of age and younger, (this credit also applies to children 17 years of age on Dec. 31, 2021.) Corbin went into detail explaining that individuals who are single or who have never filed their taxes are also eligible, depending on One's condition. The first eligibility requires if a person has resided in the United Stated for six months; the homeless population is included.

Here are the latest California headlines:

Netflix miniseries explains why the civil rights role is so important to Colin Kaepernick today

The Colin Kaepernick Netflix dramedy reveals the Central Valley racism experience as a Black youth

TO BOOST OR NOT TO BOOST: What is the answer?

Kern County: Agricultural workers lag furthest behind in vaccinations

FDA approves Pfizer Covid vaccine for children for emergency use

ONME Top 10: Black-owned bakeries and sweets are serving California pound cakes and cupcakes galore

ONME Top 10: Black-owned food trucks are serving vegan and unique cuisines throughout California

Since the release of "Colin in Black and White," is mainstream media causing people to miss the importance messaging on racial bias in the other episodes?

Since the release of "Colin in Black and White," is mainstream media causing people to miss the importance messaging on racial bias in the other episodes?

In this episode of News Too Real - PART 2: An in-depth review of newly released, 6-part, dramedy series to Netflix, "Colin in Black and White ", producer host Julia Dudley Najieb reviews each episode's theme and story line.

Dudley Najieb gives brief cinematic commentary ofn the director's messaging goals in each episode.

The mini series produced by former NLF player, Kaepernick and award-winning, writer, director and producer, Ava Duvernay details Kaerpernick's journey through his young life with the aspirations to be a star football quarterback.

With much sacrifice and perseverance, the young Kaepernick painstakingly stumbles through racism, racial bias, structural racism and Black identity as he pursues his dreams to become a star football quarterback.

Beyond the controversial mini-series, Kaepernick has founded several foundations and partnership who have the unified vision to combat racism through education, and to prepare young Black and Brown youth for potential encounters with racial bias, corrupt police officers or other relative incidents.

Despite the misleading mainstream headlines, Kaepernick's youth encompasses racially biased incidents, structural racism and an introduction to white privilege at a very young age.

In this episode of News Too Real: An in-depth review of newly released, 6-part, dramedy series to Netflix, "Colin in Black and White ", producer host Julia Dudley Najieb gives specific details of Colin Kaepernick's upbringing in the Central Valley city of Turlock, CA, located in Stanislaus County relative to her own experiences growing up in the Almaden Valley.
She reiterates the bouts of racism, racial bias and white privilege he had to navigate through as a bi-racial--although he embraced Blackness-- young person raised by two White parents; as a talented tri-athlete in basketball, baseball, and football, Kaepernick at a young age had to navigate through a Black-culture identity crisis followed by racially biased incidents, while trying to have a comprehension of what was happening to him simultaneously.

Dudley Najieb also details the strong directorial leadership of the dramedy series produced by former NLF player, Kaepernick and award-winning, writer, director and producer, Ava Duvernay that has been overshadowed by mainstream media headlines focused on the first 2 min. of the first show in the series, which dramatizes the NFL comparison to slavery, narrated by Kaerpernick.

As the dramedy series has more insightful topics related to the young, resilient Kaepernick growing up in a predominately white environment as the only "Black" kid on the block, Dudley Najieb also reviews the news headlines which talk about the direct sabotage and conspiracy that white journalists, or white people had toward Kaepernick to permanently destroy his NFL career for kneeling quietly during the national anthem played before games, as his way of politically taking a stance against police brutality and the injustices against Black and Brown people throughout the nation.