March 2012 Archive

Martin case resonates in N.O. where unarmed 20-year-old was killed
Nation, civil rights leaders watch closely as Feds probe shooting of Black teen in Fla. Furor over the shooting of an unarmed Black teen by a neighborhood watch leader reached a ...
Changing of the guard at Civil District Court
New Orleans Civil District Court gets a “make-over” with three new judges now presiding within its courtrooms.
Landrieu poised to tear down World Trade Center building
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Fourteen years after local architect Stanley Muller saw his $5 million bid to turn the World Trade Center Building into a five-star Peabody Hotel rejected in ...
Operation Reach is ‘struggling for survival’
By Jessica Williams thelensnola.org A New Orleans nonprofit organization that earned acclaim tutoring students, and which had been rapidly expanding its operations, has drastically cut back its programs, laid off staffers and ...
UWANTGAME summit chooses N.O. to host summit during final four weekend
By Kelly Parker Contributing Writer Though March Madness culminates in the Crescent City with the NCAA college basketball championship taking place in the Superdome this week, it’s not the only game in ...
Poorer communities continue to suffer lack of broadband access
By Matt Davis thelensnola.org Subscribers to high-speed Internet services in New Orleans are generally white and in the higher income brackets, according to a new nationwide study that also found Louisiana ...
St. Thomas Clinic expands
By Zoe Sullivan Contributing Writer Although rain had washed over the city for almost two days, roughly 150 people gathered under a tent on St. Andrew Street in the Garden District to ...
Women, Blacks urged to step up social activism and service
By Jacqueline Frances Taylor Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com)—In celebration of Women’s quick cash loans in grandview mo History Month and the 185th Anniversary of the Black Press, leading pioneers in education, civil ...
A silent killer tested on an African American
By Zoe Sullivan Contributing Writer Scandals over the treatment of African Americans and other non-whites in medical research have emerged over the years. In the infamous Tuskegee experiment, 300 African Americans to ...
An Analysis: How we cured ‘the culture of poverty,’ not poverty itself
By Barbara Ehrenreich Contributing Writer (Special from TomDispatch/-Nation to New America Media)—It’s been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among them, “discovered” poverty, thanks to Michael Harrington’s engaging ...

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