Available on-demand now (4-28-26): BHN Talk Radio explores WH Correspondents' Dinner shooting, 'Sarah's Oil' movie is online and California collaborates with trusted messengers statewide
- Black Headline News
- May 1
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 7
By Black Headlines News
In this episode, news hosts explore: the surprise tornado weather in California, and the mediocre weather in Texas, White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, Sarah's Oil movie, President Donald Trump has resurrected his public rebuke of former President Barack Obama, reparations argument revisited in 3 minutes, and California's unique way of connecting to nonprofits throughout the state.
BREAKING NEWS:
(ABC 30) Three tornadoes touched down in the Central Valley of California
A Storm Survey Team report from the National Weather Service in Hanford confirms three tornadoes officially touched down in Central California at the end of April.
(The Union - El Camino College) A Torrance tutor is in custody after allegedly firing shots at the White House Correspondents’ dinner. Authorities in Washington, D.C., have identified the suspect as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, a teacher at C2 Education of Torrance, a tutoring and test prep center, according to AP News and a LinkedIn profile.
This comes after shots were heard at the Washington Hilton on Saturday, April 25, near a ballroom where the White House Correspondents Dinner was being held.
According to social media accounts, Allen was recognized as “Teacher of the Month” in December 2024 with C2 Education.
SPOTLIGHT: Sarah's Oil is a 2025 American biographical drama film regarding Sarah Rector, being directed, co-produced, and co-written by Cyrus Nowrasteh. It is inspired by the 2014 book Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America by Tonya Bolden. It stars Zachary Levi, Naya Desir-Johnson, Sonequa Martin-Green, and Garret Dillahunt.
Released theatrically by Amazon MGM Studios on November 7, 2025, Sarah's Oil received generally positive reviews from critics.
ELECTIONS & POLITICS: President Donald Trump has resurrected his public rebuke of former President Barack Obama, accusing his predecessor of “treason” and calling for his arrest.
In a series of late-night Truth Social posts, the ever mercurial president renewed scrutiny of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s criminal investigation of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia’s election interference.
MORE NEWS:
California-based news host, Dudley Najieb detailed the value of the recent convening session their news network covered in Sacramento, California, the state capitol:
California makes moves to outreach to nonprofits across the state over a four-year period, finding a significant increase of impactful information about the state's resources reaching vulnerable, disadvantaged and miscounted communities throughout California, using the trusted-messenger strategy.
Established in July 2022, the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications opens in a new window (OCPSC), within the Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement (GO-Serve), was created to streamline and expand statewide communications. As the state’s leader for high-priority public awareness and outreach efforts, OCPSC prioritizes data to ensure all Californians receive timely, essential information throughout the state. Dudley Najieb researches the success-rate of the method, discussing with the host the state's strategy and effort to reach vulnerable and disadvantaged communities in California.
During the show, Dudley Najieb reflected on the Sacramento regional convening she attended April 23, where over 300 trusted-messenger participants were given workshops to enhance their organizations, resources to inform their communities, and tools to keep their groups and organizations strong. State of California leaders and OCPSC administrators confirmed that using trusted-messengers to reach Californians about valuable resources is the key.
“We learned a lot from COVID that in order to actually be successful and making California successful that the organizations who are actually able to reach people on the ground and reach deep in the communities need to be supported. We need to make sure they have the resources to be successful and that’s the work we have been doing over the last four years …it is working, and we’re going to continue it.”
OCPSC Acting executive director, Aubrie Fong, said connecting the ethnic and community media with schools, CBOs, and other trusted messengers was intended.
“The state can create so many different resources and programs—and we do, and they are amazing,” explained acting executive director, Fong. “But we really need to make sure Californians can access them. Whether that is culturally responsive materials, or we just heard also from amazing ethnic and community media folks—The ecosystem of trusted messengers is so important; we know it takes a certain amount of touches (seven or so touches) for a person to really be moved from hearing the information … it is also through ways that they trust receiving information. A lot of that is our cultural newspapers, ethnic media, radio in languages that our community members speak so that they are hearing the surround sound of the same information from the organizations, the schools and from the people they trust in the community, also with their ethnic and community media outlets.”
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