September 2011 Archive

Black unemployment continues to soar
WASHINGTON — Black leaders said on Friday that the rise in unemployment among Blacks revealed in the latest jobs report is nothing short of a “state of emergency” as they ...
Black kids twice as likely to have food allergies
NEW YORK — In a new study, black kids were twice as likely as white kids to have an immune response to foods such as peanuts, milk, and eggs, and ...
Becoming all God wants us to be
By Jerome LeDoux Contributing Writer Oral variations of the Serenity Prayer date back 80 years or so, but the written version, originating with pastor/theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in 1937, reads:
Music icon, Wardell ‘Creole Beethoven’ Quezergue dies
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer “Love the music first and something good will come out of it,” New Orleans renowned and much-loved bandleader, arranger and composer Wardell Quezergue once advised. He lived ...
Dick Gregory, fellow activist arrested protesting against BP
By Shevry Lassiter Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer) – A handful of BP stockholders gathered last week in Washington, D.C., in front of the Willard Office ...
Troy Davis
Troy Davis’ latest death date creates uproar
ATLANTA — Georgia is scheduling the execution later this month of an inmate who has won worldwide support for his claims of innocence in the 1989 slaying of a Savannah ...
White supremacist sentenced for hate crime in Washington state
TACOMA, WA — In January 2010, Zachary Beck and two other white supremacists attac­ked a Black man in downtown Vancouver, Wash., yelling, “White Power!” “You’re dead!” and racist slurs.
Surgeon general says beautiful hair and exercise can mix
(Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Afro American Newspapers) — U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin is enlisting hair stylists in the national fight against obesity. According to ...
Lower 9th Ward residents tell mayor to speed progress or lose their votes at next election
By Ariella Cohen thelensnola.org A week after Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced he will spend $45 million on street repairs in the Lower 9th Ward, residents said the Landrieu administration has many more ...
When your child goes off to college
By Dr. Andre M. Perry The Louisiana Weekly easy loans croydon The house is too clean when your child goes off to college. You walk in expecting to see the reappearing trail ...

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