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By Shawntell Muhammad Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from The Final Call) – The liver is the second largest organ in the human body, and is located in the upper right-hand ... Why isn’t N.O. Mother’s Day parade shooting a ‘national tragedy’?
By David Dennis Guest Columnist On September 3, 2005 — less than a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast — I began to understand that America cared little about what ... The second-line culture has never been about violence
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Awareness began when on June 27, 2005 Big Chief Allison “Tootie” Montana stood at the podium in the New Orleans City Council Chambers and declared, “This has ... The presumption of guilt
By Congressman John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson Guest Columnists After serving 42 years in an Arizona prison for a crime he didn’t commit, a 58-year-old man was finally released this April. When ... Talks from trials of life’s cauldron
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist We SVD brothers and priests were meeting at the St. Augustine Residence in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi a couple of years ago when Bishop Fulton J. ... Study: Five percent of consumers had errors on their credit reports
By William Garth Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Citizen) – A Federal Trade Commission study of the U.S. credit reporting industry found that five percent of consumers ... Student loan crisis is coming to a head
By Rev. Jesse L. money available for personal loans Jackson Sr. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist The student loan burden is reaching crisis proportions. Young Americans are being saddled with unsustainable debts. A New York ... Still searching for the truth
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor Yo, it’s summertime in the city but the livin’ is anything but easy. Cops are jumpin’ on innocent cats who even look like they belong in gangs ... Sinkhole suits will be consolidated into a class action
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Residents near Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish noticed excessive bubbling a year ago, and on August 3 the state issued a mandatory evacuation for about 350 people ... S&WB head says her replacement should earn more than $206,000
By Charles Maldonado thelensnola.org Marcia St. Martin, the outgoing head of the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, believes the utility will have to pay her replacement more than her, she ...
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