City tweaks spending as $38B federal budget cut ripples downstream
By Ariella Cohen http://thelensnola.org Two months after President Barack Obama and Congress averted a government shutdown by eliminating $38 billion in federal spending for 2011, New Orleans is feeling the pinch. Court says La. must test water from rigs for radiation
By Susan Buchanan The Louisiana Weekly Residents of Japan aren’t the only ones worried about what radioactive water might do to health and habitats. Along the Gulf, “produced waters”—toxic byproducts of offshore ... End Nixon’s 40-year war on Blacks, Latinos
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Forty years ago this month, President Richard Milhous Nixon declared America’s “War on Drugs.” This failed war continues even today to have a ...
Classy, sultry Chaka
By Geraldine Wyckoff The Louisiana Weekly For the first time in several years, regular attendees of the annual Essence Music Festival will have the opportunity to experience both explosive headliners like Usher, ... ‘My Pride, My Way’ in the Big Easy
What better place to bring African Pride’s nationally charged “My Pride. My Way” campaign than the Big Easy during the Essence Music Festival weekend? ‘President’ Romney’s White (male) House
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media Columnist GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was asked during the 2008 GOP presidential primary campaign what he thought about diversity. He gave the stock answer ... 50 N.O.-area women to embark on life-changing transformations at Essence
Music legend Chaka Khan joins the 2011 Essence Music Festival, not only as a main-stage performer on Saturday, July 2, but also to significantly impact the lives of 50 women 2011 La. Legislative session legacy: Lack of accomplishment
By Christopher Tidmore The Louisiana Weekly The 2011 Legislative Session will likely be remembered more for what was not accomplished than that which was. The SUNO-UNO merger failed. A single college board ... A fiscally responsible plan for big Charity in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina damaged the Charity Hospital in New Orleans, which is owned and operated by the LSU Health Sciences Center (“HSC”). The state and federal governments have put up ... Essence Fest 2011 puts spotlight on local brass bands
By Geraldine Wyckoff The Louisiana Weekly “Brass bands are takin’ over, baby,” ReBirth’s leader and tuba player Phil Frazier laughingly exclaims. Though in truth, he’s a believer.
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By Ariella Cohen http://thelensnola.org Two months after President Barack Obama and Congress averted a government shutdown by eliminating $38 billion in federal spending for 2011, New Orleans is feeling the pinch. Court says La. must test water from rigs for radiation
By Susan Buchanan The Louisiana Weekly Residents of Japan aren’t the only ones worried about what radioactive water might do to health and habitats. Along the Gulf, “produced waters”—toxic byproducts of offshore ... End Nixon’s 40-year war on Blacks, Latinos
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Forty years ago this month, President Richard Milhous Nixon declared America’s “War on Drugs.” This failed war continues even today to have a ...
By Geraldine Wyckoff The Louisiana Weekly For the first time in several years, regular attendees of the annual Essence Music Festival will have the opportunity to experience both explosive headliners like Usher, ... ‘My Pride, My Way’ in the Big Easy
What better place to bring African Pride’s nationally charged “My Pride. My Way” campaign than the Big Easy during the Essence Music Festival weekend? ‘President’ Romney’s White (male) House
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media Columnist GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was asked during the 2008 GOP presidential primary campaign what he thought about diversity. He gave the stock answer ... 50 N.O.-area women to embark on life-changing transformations at Essence
Music legend Chaka Khan joins the 2011 Essence Music Festival, not only as a main-stage performer on Saturday, July 2, but also to significantly impact the lives of 50 women 2011 La. Legislative session legacy: Lack of accomplishment
By Christopher Tidmore The Louisiana Weekly The 2011 Legislative Session will likely be remembered more for what was not accomplished than that which was. The SUNO-UNO merger failed. A single college board ... A fiscally responsible plan for big Charity in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina damaged the Charity Hospital in New Orleans, which is owned and operated by the LSU Health Sciences Center (“HSC”). The state and federal governments have put up ... Essence Fest 2011 puts spotlight on local brass bands
By Geraldine Wyckoff The Louisiana Weekly “Brass bands are takin’ over, baby,” ReBirth’s leader and tuba player Phil Frazier laughingly exclaims. Though in truth, he’s a believer.
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