Letter from the Publishers

Holiday Cheer(s) When the holidays roll around each year, we can’t help but to hear the echoes of “This Christmas,” the yuletide classic popularized by the legendary Donny Hathaway: “Hang all the mistletoe / I’m gonna get to know you better …” As we enter our 14th year of publishing, we are so grateful for […]

Yes, Virginia, It Used To Be True | By Louie Overstreet

BY LOUIE OVERSTREET Please allow me to guess what Francis Church’s advice would be today, compared to that he gave to 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon back in 1897. For much of the third millennium, Santa has been the victim of physical abuse. The police arrested him, because they thought he was a pimp dressed in a […]

MLK Senior Center, Anthem bring Mammo-Rama Extravaganza to Historic Westside

Director Byron Goynes of the MLK Senior Center, located at 2420 North Martin Luther King Blvd., recently hosted Anthem’s Mammo-Rama Extravaganza. Many community residents attended this outdoor event that included music, free food, free vision exams, free feminine products, self-breast exam demonstrations, COVID testing, and COVID and flu vaccinations. And yes, free mammograms. Many health […]

Community Speaks – July 2021

What is your biggest concern about your own health and our Las Vegas healthcare system?  

Leadership, by the book

Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Executive Director Kelvin Watson is a candidate for the American Library Association presidency Kelvin Watson, executive director of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, has been named one of two candidates for the 2023-24 presidency of the American Library Association (ALA). The ALA is a national organization that provides essential […]

America The Beautiful Has Grown Ugly | By Louie Overstreet

BY LOUIE OVERSTREET In my entire life, I cannot remember being filled with such despair or suffering from an alarming sense that things will not be better in the future. My generation experienced discrimination on an industrial scale, the civil rights movement, riots (Glenville Shootout in Cleveland in 1968 was only five blocks from Chuck […]

Letter from the Publishers

Giving Thanks The holidays are approaching, and we have to give thanks to you — our loyal Las Vegas Black Image readers and supporters. We have been publishing this magazine since 2008, with a cover dedicated to the newly-elected President Obama and his family. We are grateful to our executive publishing team and all our […]

Letter from the Publishers

Wishing you health and wellness Our loyal readers stir deep gratitude in the Las Vegas Black Image family. You are the inspiration for our commitment to confronting negative images with the uplifting stories and photos that are the hallmark of this magazine each month. Thanks to the inimitable singer and her outstanding team, Erykah Badu […]

Library District, RTC to Offer Free Entertainment Options

Library District, RTC to Offer Free Entertainment Options Transit riders in the Las Vegas metropolitan area can now access free movies, ebooks, audiobooks and magazines, thanks to a new partnership between the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) and the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. The Library District is bringing the library on board […]

Ain’t True In America Today | By Louie Overstreet

Ain’t True In America Today BY LOUIE OVERSTREET Five sayings that once defined America are at best only marginally true today. “Women and children first, and every man for himself” may have been true in filling the lifeboats on the Titanic, but it is not today. Women’s right to safe abortions is under wholesale assault. […]

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