June 2011 Archive

Ladies in Red again pay tribute to legendary musicians at annual gala
By Kelly Parker The Louisiana Weekly In its continuous efforts to what is motosport fast cash celebrate and sustain the many cultural legacies of our city, The Pre­servation Resource Center is holding ...
Landrieu signs executive order to create Homeless Services Working Group
The Louisiana Weekly Staff Reports New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Wednesday signed an executive order establishing the Homeless Services Working Group — an official Mayoral Advisory Committee — ...
New Salem Annual Women’s Day set
New Salem Baptist Church, 1530 Alvar Street, New Orleans, La., will host its Annual Women’s Day on Sunday, June 12, at 10:30 a.m. All are welcome. The guest speaker ...
President Obama’s disaster schedule competes with issues
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) — President Barack Obama returned from a whirlwind trip to Europe May 29 and headed straight to Joplin, Mo., where neighborhoods were reduced to rubble ...
Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist On May 25, the Obama Administration announced a new Race to the Top challenge fund to identify and reward best practices in education — $500 million ...
Road Home drama continues, six years later
By Zoe Sullivan The Louisiana Weekly By the time the Road Home portion was reached during a joint meeting by the Louisiana Senate Select Committee on Hurricane Recovery and the City Council’s ...
Serpas cancels ‘reward coins’ to be bought with state forfeiture funds
By Matt Davis http://thelensnola.org The New Orleans Police Depart­ment cancelled the use of seized state drug money to purchase re­ward coins for police officers two hours after our partners at FOX 8 ...
Single board for colleges opposition waning
By Christopher Tidmore The Louisiana Weekly After slogging through the SUNO-UNO merger debacle, House Speaker Jim Tucker potentially had the roots of two pieces good news this week. Sources close to his ...
Study details causes of high Black maternal death rates
By Sharon Johnson (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from Women’s eNews) – Research on why women die in childbirth is very scarce. One of the few looks ...
The hard truth – Handling the new attack on Black beauty
By Min. J. Kojo Livingston The Louisiana Weekly Contributing Columnist Part II Shut them down. That’s my answer to Psychology Today’s choice to run a blog by Satoshi Kanazawa that asked ...

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