August 2012 Archive

Community seeks to get involved in La. Supreme Court battle
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer Supporters of embattled Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Bernette Johnson gathered at a local church Aug. 6 to raise public awareness of the legal challenges facing the longtime ...
Grassroots activists struggling to motivate Blacks to vote
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com)— With Black unemployment rates still stuck in double digits while Whites remain consistently below the national average, economic frustration and suffering in the Black community ...
Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Orchestra
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer It’s as if New Orleans woke up to Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Orchestra during its invigorating performance at the Satchmo SummerFest. Led by trombonist Marsalis, the ...
Bringing voucher schools into the light
By Dr. Andre M. Perry Contributing Columnist Louisiana didn’t become 41st in the nation on average ACT score because of public school performance alone. Public schools can’t take all the blame for ...
Cory Booker among democrats in N.O. for Jefferson-Jackson Day
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer Louisiana Democrats played host to two big names in progressive politics August 4 when Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker spoke to a ...
A family paradigm for us all
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist Arising at 4:00 in the morning after retiring at 3:10 is hardly anyone’s cup of tea, but it enabled me to roll away from the rectory ...
Anti-poverty programs have been successful
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Conservatives continue to assert that anti-poverty programs have failed when, in fact, they have saved millions of people from plunging into poverty.
Black-on-Black voter suppression?
At the recent conference of the National Urban League which was held here, a major subject of concern was voter suppression. It seems that since conservatives/republicans represent a smaller portion ...
Diacriticize: This is my rifle, this is my gun…
By Viet Thanh Nguyen New America Media Guest Columnist …This is for fighting, this is for fun. This is an article about the recent massacre of six Sikh Americans by a white supremacist ...
Groups seek to intervenein NOPD consent decree
A federal judge recent set an Aug. 29 hearing on an agreement the City of New Orleans reached with the Justice Department to overhaul the city’s troubled police department, the ...

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