August 2012 Archive

Just another boogeyman, Part I
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane. It’s another Black boogeyman! More powerful than 40 ounces of St. Ides Malt Liquor or a ...
Lactation consultants need to diversify
By Kimberly Seals Allers Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from WomenseNews) — Sakia’Lynn Johnson was cautiously optimistic. Last year, as one of two African-American international board certified lactation ...
League of Women Voters ask for Special Session
By Zoe Sullivan Contributing Writer The League of Women Voters of Louisiana has issued a call for an extraordinary session of the legislature to address the dramatic cuts to the state’s healthcare ...
Louisiana not a priority
It has become obvious to me that Bobby Jindal sees Louisiana in his rear-view mirror. That’s a real shame. Our state has problems in every direction—crumbling roads and bridges, colleges facing ...
Romney’s salty pork
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist For years, the state of Utah was a major producer of salt. You can’t follow the politics of our nation without hearing a reference ...
The Hard Truth – Marcus Garvey – None greater!
By Min. J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Columnist He built the largest Black movement and organization in modern history. It was larger than the Civil Rights Movement…and with a lot less technology ...
Victories and stereotypes
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist If you don’t follow fast cash loans no credit Olympic gymnastics, you may not have heard about Gabrielle Douglas before this year. But the amazing grace of ...
What’s next, virginity tests?
We’ve said it before and we need to say it again: Charter schools are not public schools! Using the trickery of language the state refers to real public schools ...
Walmart and under-employment
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist As University of California-Berkeley Labor Center Professor Steven Pitts regularly notes, African Americans not only face a crisis of lack of jobs, but we also face ...
Family slain in 7th Ward home
By Zoe Sullivan Contributing Writer A mother, her adult son and her daughter-in-law were murdered over the last weekend of July at 1914 Old Prieur Street. Consuel­la Lewis, Kevin Lewis and Lachandra ...

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