September 2012 Archive

Music icon James ‘Sugar Boy’ Crawford dies at age 77
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Throughout his life, James “Sugar Boy” Crawford lived up to the nickname he was given as a small child. When people think of him two things come ...
The assault on the middle class
By Don Barlett and James Steele Contributing Writers Ed. Note: U.S. Census data released Wednesday revealed troubling poverty figures, with some 46 million Americans—including one in every five children—living below the poverty ...
The double whammy of poverty and unemployment
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Earlier in September, we learned that African-American unemployment rates stayed level last month, with an absurdly high official unemployment rate of 14.1 percent. Unemployment rates for ...
The Hard Truth—Movement meeting madness
By Min. J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Columnist cash advance Gilbert AZ This is yet another Minority Opinion. Since becoming an active, documented and spied-upon member of the Black Liberation ...
What comes out of us defiles/heals
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist Jesus reduced the Decalogue to two great commandments, then down to one at the Last Supper, “Love one another as I have loved you.” At the ...
Study says a Black person killed by police every 36 hours
By J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer N.O. Consent Decree angers activists Using government documents and direct investigations a group has issued a call to action, citing that in the first six (6) months ...
Isaac’s damage totals at $2B and counting
By Zoe Sullivan Contributing Writer Estimates put damage resulting from Hurricane Isaac at roughly $2 billion. As of the end of Tuesday, September 11h, the state had issued in food stamps ...
New study shows Black schools are underfunded and ‘very segregated’
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Nearly quick money loan online 60 years after the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision declared that the “separate but ...
Executive order help states along the Gulf affected by spill
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer Two years after the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill inflicted economic and ecological disaster on the Gulf Coast, federal authorities are setting aside 80 percent of the ...
Interior drainage construction for Claiborne Ave. begins
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District recently began construction on a 46-month contract to provide increased drainage for the Carroll­ton area through drainage canal improvements along South ...

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