August 2012 Archive
New Orleans, LA - Today, the City of New Orleans informed residents that routine trash collection and recycling collection will return to normal schedules on Friday, August 31, 2012. Residents are ... Urgent News: Daughters of Charity Health Centers closed until Wednesday
Emergency Preparedness Update Wednesday, August 29, 2012 ~ 4 p.m. The greater New Orleans area continues to feel the effects of the hurricane, which is now Tropical Storm Isaac. High winds and ... Looking forward to the return of our ‘Mother-in-Law’
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Following the news that the City Planning Commission gave the thumbs up for trumpeter/vocalist Kermit Ruffins to reopen the world-famous Ernie K-Doe’s Mother-in-Law Lounge, the question buzzing ... National Campaign underway to suppress the Right to Vote
Voting-rights battles re-emerge in the South By Nick Andersen, Kassondra Cloos and Caitlin O’Donnell Contributing Writers (Special from New America Media and News 21) — Raymond Rutherford has voted for decades. But this ... ‘Capital punishment’ in the workplace
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In employment law, they speak about a termination or firing as being the “capital punishment” of employment relations. This may sound dramatic – unless you ... Activism—then and now
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Every time I see a march or rally, I think of the rally of all rallies, which was the 1963 March on Washington. Forty-nine years later, there ... An Analysis-Are Pres. Obama and other trailblazers victims of the ‘first Black’ syndrome?
(Special from New America Media and Loop21) – Adulation and the perks of celebrity should accompany becoming the first of your race or ethnic group to achieve international acclaim or ... Coastal leaders want BP to clean up its mess
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Regional leaders at a Gulf Coast Restoration Summit, held in New Orleans on August 17, said they’re relieved that Congress passed the RESTORE Act in June, especially ... Could the BP spill still be killing the dolphins?
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Environmental Attorney Stuart Smith observed to The Louisiana Weekly, “We have had massive dolphin die offs in the past 24 months, tremendous falls in shrimp populations, and ... Flying constantly into the teeth of life
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist Deplaning at Love Airport in Dallas after attending the memorial for Earline, the wife of Dr. James Perry, D.D.S., I was greeted by a 106-degree blast ...
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