June 2012 Archive

Drummer Hamid Drake to appear at Ashé Cultural Arts Center
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer The healing force of music has long been recognized and utilized in cultures throughout the world. Drummer Hamid Drake, along with a host of others, taps into ...
Backlash against efforts by La. Supreme Court to turn back the clock intensifies
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer fast payday loans of kansas The first missive fired by what critics are calling a renegade Louisiana Supreme Court, (LSC), to aid Associate Justice Jeffery P. Victory ...
An elite college preparatory school
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist Cyprian Snyder Patin was prominent among the 28 of us who arrived at Saint Augustine Semi­nary in Bay St. Louis, Missis­sippi, in early September of 1943. ...
Legal obstacle removed from new Tulane University’s stadium
By Chris Villere and Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writers Tulane University’s plan to reconstruct a football stadium behind the Uptown campus received a boost just over a week ago, when the temporary zoning ...
Public participation needed on medicaid drug access
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is completing a series of public hearings in Baton Rouge and New Orleans next week about the new pharmacy benefit available through the ...
Right-wingers hate Romney, but hate Obama more
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist What is interesting about the relationship of the extreme political Right to Romney is that they actually hate him. This is not speculation. If ...
Shackles on my feet
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor A.D.I.D.A.S. = All Day I Dream About Slavery? Kunte Kinte shoes? Oh, hell no. Unless you’ve had your head stuck in the sand for the past two ...
Shreveport Black contractors and inspectors acquitted
By J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer Four years ago it made state and even national news, but on Mon­day of last week the infamous “Shreveport Community Develop­ment Scandal” that began 2009 ended ...
The Hard Truth… Recognizing the face of evil
By Min. J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Columnist “For we do not free personal loans with bad credit wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the ...
Time for $10-an-hour minimum wage
By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Last week, legislators led by my son Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (I write with some pride) called on the Congress to raise the minimum ...

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