August 2013 Archive

Alums, activists ask why high school is left in squalor with millions earmarked for it set aside
By Kari Harden Contributing Writer For the past four years Angelina Elder has been furiously waging a battle for her alma mater, John McDonogh High School, from within the lime green kitchen ...
Young scientists ask ‘What’s in your water?’
By J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer Shreveport – You could call them the young lions of science. Demetrius Norman is a native of Shreveport with a degree in electronic engineering. He ...
Activists sue to overturn N.C. voter suppression law
By Cash Michaels Contributing Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (Special to the NNPA from The Carolinian Newspaper) — When Gov. Pat McCrory signed House Bill 589 last week, the controversial Voter Information Verification Act, ...
Why we’re still marching
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist For a while, it looked like the 50th anniversary observance of the March on Washington would expose a sharp split in the Civil Rights Movement. Al ...
VICKNAIR
Vicknair makes Magistrate bid
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer The longtime head of the Orleans Alliance for Good Government, Mark Vicknair, in years of evaluating and endorsing candidates, had never expressed an interest for any ...
Two chains, no brains
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor The world got more proof over the course of the past two weeks that you don’t have to be smart to be filthy rich. In fact, if ...
Truth is stranger, stronger than fiction
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist Happy and exhilarated in her vintage Mercedes, Katie was tooling coolly down two-way-traffic Route 19 near Center, Missouri, when she saw her life flash before her. ...
Stop closing and merging urban schools
What rationale and guiding principles are being used by the Recovery School District (RSD) to justify relocating Walter L. Cohen Senior High School students to a school to be built ...
March on Washington: Then and now
By Norman and Velma Murphy Hill NNPA Guest Columnists Fifty quicken loads years ago, 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to call for justice and equality for all Americans. As the ...
Dr. King’s ‘Dream’ vs. Obama’s realpolitik
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist “Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time ...

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