January 2012 Archive
By Dr. Andre M. Perry Contributing Columnist The preponderance of evidence shows that curfews are not that effective in reducing crime citywide. However, my friends in places like New York and Miami ... Kappas and Omegas form Super PAC to back Obama
By Herb Boyd Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News) — Kappas and Omegas on the same page? Yes, and the two Black fraternities — Kappa Alpha Psi and ... Lift your voice on MLK Day
The right to top cash advance Houston TX Northwest assemble in our Constitution’s Bill of Rights is not limited to banker’s hours! Beginning on October 6, 2011, Occupy NOLA inspired ... LSUHSC joins forces with White House to combat TBI/PTSD in military veterans
On Wednesday, as part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Joining Forces initiative, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the American Association of ... Make the King holiday count
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor How do you plan to spend the Martin Luther King Jr. National Holiday? Reading a good book that you haven’t been able to find the time to read? ... More than a dreamer
Ask five people what Dr. Martin Luther King stood for and you might get six different answers. * To mild-mannered accommodationist negroes he was a fire-breathing revolutionary who went too far. * To some ... New SCLC VP predicts King strategy will bring surge for Obama
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — No great movement in America’s history has ever taken only a few years. Whether it was the movement from slavery to freedom, the women’s ... Patrick Dobard appointed interim chief of Recovery School District
By Jessica Williams thelensnola.org Less than two hours after the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education appointed former Recovery School District chief John White to the state superintendent spot, White announced ... RSD head becomes new Secretary of Ed
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted last Wednesday to promote John White to Superintendent of Education from the state, and gave him a pay cut. State Democrats win chairmanships in GOP legislature
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Noting that the media focus on the BCS Championship that evening to the exclusion of all else, Bobby Jindal was inaugurated into his second gubernatorial term just ...
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