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By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I hope you watched Extreme Home Makeover on December 2, as I did. For me it was an opportunity of pride, as Bennett student Dominique Walker ... La. Dept. of Revenue pushing for sales tax on online holiday purchases
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer The Louisiana Department of Revenue argued last week that holiday shoppers needed to report any unpaid sales tax on online purchases on the looming state income ... Testing shows persistent formaldehyde contamination in region’s FEMA trailers
By Ariella Cohen thelensnola.org More than six years after FEMA provided displaced Hurricane Katrina victims with trailers that were later revealed to be toxic, early tests suggest that dangerously high levels of ... Groups mobilize efforts, call for NOPD chief’s resignation
In a public display on the steps of New Orleans City Hall on Thursday, December 1, members from the United New Orleans Front, a coalition of community-based organizations, said they ... Poll: Americans support fairer wealth distribution
By Nisa Islam Muhammad Contributing Writer WASHINGTON (Special to New America Media from FinalCall.com) — On the streets of the nation’s capital, a random downtown workers were asked, “Would America be better ... Rising temperatures, droughts, storms on the rise, report finds
By Katherine Bagley Contributing Writer Editor’s Note: Record heat waves, drought, floods, thunderstorms, tornado outbreaks—extreme weather battered much of the United States and parts of the world in recent years, causing an ... Environment groups question state bids for spending BP bucks
By Benjamin Leger thelensnola.org The $1 billion fund set up by BP is supposed to pay for restoration of natural resources damaged by last year’s Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill, the ... UNCF to raise $5M to help college students graduate
Kenisha Cromity is a Fulbright Scholar teaching this year in China. The young African-American woman from Jackson­ville, Florida, almost was­n’t able to graduate from Atlanta’s Spelman College last year because ... Coco Robicheaux, famed ‘spiritual’ guitarist and vocalist, dies
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer The thousands of people who have fondly rubbed the head of Professor Longhair’s bust as they entered Tipitina’s might caress it again next time in remembrance of ... An Open Letter to Community
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